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<blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 5044056" data-attributes="member: 807">I am NOT a &quot;Rules Guru&quot; (tm), nor do I have book references to back up anything I say. So this is just an opinion.If such a situation occured in a game I ran, I would rule it as 12 damage.My logic: a zone (from MM1 glossary) is &quot;a persistant -area- effect,...&quot; therefore i'd rule it being similar enough to an 'area' effect in this case (it affects whole squares within the area).To me, swarms have resist to melee and ranged because those are often single target or multiple single target attacks. whereas a close or area get entire squares within the effect.&nbsp; swarms are a bunch of critters acting as a single entity so targetting one single critter (or multiple single critters) within the swarm does the hive-body little damage (hence the resist) but getting the whole sqaure will catch the entire hive-body (hence the vulnerable).having said all that, if there is an official rule-based answer on it, i have no idea <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="fba827, post: 5044056, member: 807"] I am NOT a "Rules Guru" (tm), nor do I have book references to back up anything I say. So this is just an opinion. If such a situation occured in a game I ran, I would rule it as 12 damage. My logic: a zone (from MM1 glossary) is "a persistant -area- effect,..." therefore i'd rule it being similar enough to an 'area' effect in this case (it affects whole squares within the area). To me, swarms have resist to melee and ranged because those are often single target or multiple single target attacks. whereas a close or area get entire squares within the effect. swarms are a bunch of critters acting as a single entity so targetting one single critter (or multiple single critters) within the swarm does the hive-body little damage (hence the resist) but getting the whole sqaure will catch the entire hive-body (hence the vulnerable). having said all that, if there is an official rule-based answer on it, i have no idea :) [/QUOTE]

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