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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 242598" data-attributes="member: 4937">I've always assumed that the sentence about Hydra's Combat Reflexes meant that they got one AoO per head rather than the usual of 1 plus thier DEX bonus (Hydra's don't have a DEX bonus).  Regardless, an AoO is one melee attack, and a creature may only make one AoO against any given foe in a single round no matter how many AoO they provoke.  Therefore Hydras cannot use every head to bite a person that provokes an AoO from them.  However, if seven people provoke an AoO from a seven headed hydra, each is attacked.  The eighth can take the run action with fear.I personally think that WotC should have separated the Hydra's special feat from Combat Reflexes, and called it something like Multi-Reflexes.Multi-Reflexes (Monster)You have more than one independently functioning head.Prerequisite: More than one head.Benefit: You may make up to one additional AoO per additional head you have per round.  Each attack of opportunity must be with a different appendage, and that appendage must threaten the target of the AoO.  For these purposes, appendages include arms, tentacles, heads with effective bite attacks, and legs with effective claw attacks.  This benefit stacks with combat reflexes.Example: If you have two heads, a 15 dex, and both Multi-Reflexes and Combat Reflexes, you can make 4 AoO per round (1 normal, +2 for Dex bonus +2, +1 for the second head).</blockquote>