Monster attacks - a little help?

[Murrdox]

Recently, with the help of this forum, it was brought to my attention that characters with more than one attack could attack different targets in the same round. We had always played in my group that a character with multiple attacks could still only attack one target. This resulted in unhappy fighters with 3 attacks and no cleave killing their target with the first attack and then unable to make anymore attacks that round.

So ANYWAYS, I understand how attacks work now for characters, but I just want to clarify... do monster attacks work the same way? Can a monster with multiple attacks choose a different target for each attack, assuming it has enough targets?

For example, if you had a large dragon surrounded by 4 characters (D takes up 2 squares):

---N
M D L
---D
---O

If the dragon has 2 claw attacks, a bite, and 2 wing attacks... could it then:

Attack N with one claw
Attack M with one claw and one wing
Attack L with one wing
Attack O with the bite

If the dragon is "facing" N, is he still allowed to bite O? Is it legal for a monster to split his attacks in this way?

The way we used to play it, the dragon would have to pick one target and focus all its attacks on that one target.

EDIT - my chart didn't work for some reason... but you get the idea.

 

[gariig]

If it is a full attack and multiple characters are in it's threat range.

Gariig

 

[dcollins]

... do monster attacks work the same way? Can a monster with multiple attacks choose a different target for each attack, assuming it has enough targets?

Yes, monster attacks work the same way. No one-target limitation is put on characters or monsters or anything else.