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Message: <blockquote data-quote="empireofchaos" data-source="post: 6806476" data-attributes="member: 6800918">Ah, I see it actually is made explicit, but in the MM, p. 11 ("A creature that can make multiple attacks on its turn has the Multiattack ability"). Durn tricephalous core rules!Yeah, that's what I was getting at. The other respondents here are suggesting (and it seems to be RAW) that whatever system of tie-breaks you are using, all the multiattacks take place before another creature can act. I do tend to use simultaneous resolution if there is a tie in the initiative order (so that two creatures can kill one another - happens sometimes).Well, it's related, in the sense that if a creature with two attacks cleaves through an opponent with the first attack and is already doing damage to another creature, it would make no logical sense to prohibit the second attack from doing damage against that creature as well. The impact of massive damage/attacks that cause instant death was the main thing I was interested in in this thread (I figured I would throw in the other questions, though they did seem more clear-cut). And I wasn't questioning whether the attack has to come from a single source or creature,  I was asking whether it had to be a single attack, or, conversely, the entirety of a multiattack sequence. I agree with the linguistic distinction you are drawing at the end here. But one's reading is pretty significant, since if the answer is multiattack sequence, character death would be significantly more common. If it's a single attack, then it would be as rare as people aver in other threads here.Yeah, I'm toying with this idea, too, but I'll have to think more about how much doing this will bog things down, viz.:Well, as I was saying, I would consider this as an exceptional rule in cases where there is only a single opponent. The benefit would be to give creatures with fewer attacks a greater chance to react/slay the opponent that has multiple attacks before it has a chance to just mow through you with all of its attacks simultaneously. Remembering triggers would be a complication, it's true, but not so bad if you're dealing with a single creature.</blockquote>

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