Excerpt: Swarms

[Khaim]

The first thing that struck me is that both swarms are Medium. If the drakes are the size of cats, surely a swarm of them should be more than 5' x 5'?

Well, a "swarm" might be 10-12 of them.

 

[Family]

Well, a "swarm" might be 10-12 of them.

or 100,000 Killer Amazonian Ants

 

[mrrodgers]

Well it does say:

Vulnerable 5 against close and area attacks.

So that would include fireballs.

whoops, missed that.

but still, that wizard's not so tasty

 

[Dormain1]

Minions and swarms.

and solos oh my

I like how they have group HP now rather than individual (where a single fireball rids you of the swarm)

 

[mach1.9pants]

exsanguinate

nice word! If only I knew what it meant?!?

 

[ForbidenMaster]

I'm not convinced.

The first thing that struck me is that both swarms are Medium. If the drakes are the size of cats, surely a swarm of them should be more than 5' x 5'?

And I'm not sure my first thought was, as promised, "Get these things off me!"

Well one could make the argument that they actually occupy a 15'x15' area as per their swarm attack ability, but for the purpose of determining where the actual swarm as a whole is, they are just in the middle square. Sort of like how a normal human really doesnt take up a whole 5x5 square, but for the purpose of determening location thats the amount of space we say he ocupies.

 

[mrrodgers]

nice word! If only I knew what it meant?!?

to make something happy

 

[Mouseferatu]

nice word! If only I knew what it meant?!?

To drain or remove the blood. Someone who dies of exsanguination has bled to death.

 

[Mort_Q]

What does aura 1 mean exactly?

 

[mrrodgers]

What does aura 1 mean exactly?

if you stand near it, it bites you.