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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Locutus Zero" data-source="post: 5587717" data-attributes="member: 100080">Going forward, I think I'm going to treat each melee or ranged attack with multiple targets as either a close attack or multiple attacks, depending on the intentions (of me in the case of monsters, of designers in the case of PCs).  Since we all know how close works, and the errata on Twin Strike spells out pretty well how two attacks works, that should answer all questions.Basically, it seems like we have three tools (close, single melee or ranged attack with multiple targets, and multiple attacks with one target each) to solve two problems (did the attacker do one thing to several people or several different things?).Thankfully, in the case of PCs, almost every melee and ranged power with multiple targets tells you in the attack section to treat it as two attacks.  It seems like the power designers see the muddyness in the rules and simply clarify in the power itself.  One exception to this is Thri-Kreen Claws.  I guess based on flavor, I'm going to treat that like a close.</blockquote>