An age old topic that was never answered!

[wingsandsword]

I'm playing a Druid with a Swarm-o-Cats animal companion at the moment

A D&D version of the crazy old lady with a zillion cats?

 

[Aust Diamondew]

Well if 2 20s in a row (plus crit check) is an insta kill in my games assuming you deal at least 1 point of damage. 3 20s plus crit check will instakill even if you don't do damage. So the cats need 4 20s in a row to instakill. So 160000 cats each making 1 attack should suceed. Unfortunatley because of cleave/great cleave and breath weapons many of the cats will never get the chance to attack. So I think 320000 cats ought to do it in my campaign.

Which is probably a sufficient number of cats to simply drown the dragon in

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

1 cat

Cat enters hoard room takes a little something, runs away.

Dragon can't stand to loose even a little something, chases cat.

Cat runs into a doorway, and because cat is tiny he does Not set off the "Mechanical, Automatic, Proximity, Undetectable, Crushing Deadfall of Stones and Adiamantium Spikes, Doortrap."

Dragon sticks head in door.

 

[Percivellian]

Individual housecats (in any number) can't grapple an Ancient Red Dragon, as you automatically fail if your target is two or more size categories larger than you. Looks like this will have to be something along the lines of a swarm.

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

That would work, if items/magics/feat substitutions were allowed, which they're not. You've only got your common tabby/persian/alley cat/various breeds (superficial variants) and one standard MM Ancient Red Dragon.

Come on guys, one or more of you gaming strategists can figure this out!

So you are under the impression that common housecats Don't know magic.

 

[Aeric]

To kill an Ancient Gold Dragon in one round we need an Army of Kamikaze GrappleCats (tm) 134408000 strong.

That's great!

Unfortunately, we're talking about an ancient red dragon, not an ancient gold dragon.

 

[Hypersmurf]

A D&D version of the crazy old lady with a zillion cats?

Something like that. I've got the names of all three hundred of them on the character sheet

-Hyp.

 

[elbandit]

Cats are Tiny - they form Swarms, not Mobs.

I'm playing a Druid with a Swarm-o-Cats animal companion at the moment

-Hyp.

I recall seeing rules on that, any idea where?

 

[Hypersmurf]

I recall seeing rules on that, any idea where?

Well, we made them up as we went along - called it a Level -3 companion, and ruled that Multiattack allows 2 instances of swarm damage each round. Other than that, it just follows the normal companion rules for advancement.

The big downside is that all the standard buffing spells for animal companions are spells that the Swarm subtype is immune to...

-Hyp.

 

[Pinotage]

I reckon one cat only. Dragon sees cat, swallows it, and chokes to death.

Pinotage