Quick question on monster attacks.

[Lord Pendragon]

Treating them as separate entities can lead to weird results in some cases, though... like Whirlwind Attack, for example.

-Hyp.

::nod:: I vaguely remember a thread about that here, actually. And it's a good point. I think I would partially allow it. After all, the heads are also snakelike, so I have this image of them hovering over the body, striking out, then pulling back. A hydraen Spring Attack, if you will. So at any given time, only a few of the heads would be near enough to the fighter to be Whirlwind/Cleaved.

 

[MerakSpielman]

And don't forget, a Lernean-12 can get up to 24 heads

A Lernean 12-headed Cryohydra was the final Big Battle of my last campaign. The breath attacks the first round can be... nasty. They "slew" it in 2 rounds (the bastards) but the looks on their faces when those heads started re-growing.... priceless.... Once they figured out to kill it with fireballs, it was all over (cold subtype plus fire doesn't let the heads re-grow)....