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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mengu" data-source="post: 4240320" data-attributes="member: 65726">The Needlefang Drake Swarm is ridiculously dangerous. I just did a mock up battle in a 10 ft hallway between 4 Drake Swarms and 5 characters from the DDXP, namely Corrin, Kathra, Erais, Skamos, Riardon. 500 XP encounter for five 1st level characters should not be terribly difficult. However, it was just about TPK, except Riardon ran for his life after the other 4 went down, and there were still 3 swarms. The characters used their daily and encounter abilities, as well as action points, to no veil. Skamos whiffed on 4 attack rolls the first round, and after that was targetting 2 swarms at a time, and managed to hit one a round (which is about average).Combination of Pull Down, extra damage vs prone target, and Swarm Attack just destroyed the party. Kathra was the only one who could sometimes resist the knockdown, and so was able to stay standing the longest.Honestly the fight against these swarms was shorter than a fight against the level 4 solo lurker dragon.4 drake swarms were not an appropriate encounter against a party at full power. I will try again with 3 swarms, and see how that goes.</blockquote>