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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1124846" data-attributes="member: 3146">Actually, it was just as unclear (and just as gamebreaking if allowed) whether or not hydras could attack once with each head on every opportunity in 3.0 as it is in 3.5Hydras are a very strange creature in terms of the D&D rule-set and seem to break most of the combat rules. The inclusion of a body hit point total for all hydras in 3.5 seems to me to indicate a shift in the way the rule-set treats hydras--a shift from multiple creatures with one single facing and reach to a single creature with a variant feat and a variant pounce ability.It also seems to me the hydra is designed as a creature to be slain in melee combat by cutting off its heads. Allowing one AoO with each head for each opportunity means that, even characters with the improved sunder feat will probably be dead before they reach the hydra. Which would mean that your interpretation is at odds with the apparent intent of the creature. Since the other alternative is an equally plausible reading of the text, accomplishes the apparent design intention, and is FAR FAR FAR more balanced, it seems that it ought to be the favored interpretation.</blockquote>