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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 2912197" data-attributes="member: 1656">So it can move twenty feet (move action) and breathe jets of fire (standard action) in a round, and also unleash a whopping two more full attacks each round in attacks of opportunity.As for breathing and attacking, what we find we're missing is exactly what sort of action 'attacking with all its heads' is.  I'm inclined to rule that it can replace the single melee attack that is normally part of an attack action, charge action, or AoO with a melee attack from each head.  So this would mean that breathing and attacking is only possible if the attacks come from an AoO - the hydra can't take a standard action to breathe, and also take a standard action to attack or full-round action to charge.My ruling there does mean that "even if they move" is reinterpreted as "even if they take a move action" - in other words, I'd allow a hydra to stand from prone and attack with all its heads, or control a frightened mount and attack with all its heads.  If I wanted to adhere slightly more closely to the wording in the hydra entry in formalising my ruling, I'd have to say something like "attack with all its heads on a charge action, or on an attack action in a round that it moves (but not in a round that it uses a move action for some other purpose)", which isn't as elegant.-Hyp.</blockquote>