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<blockquote data-quote="Peter Gibbons" data-source="post: 2690553" data-attributes="member: 35541">The PHB has a glossary entry for &quot;damage&quot; that isn't particularly helpful here, but the real question is: does it make any sense that a Swarm of X would be immune to damage from a Swarm of Y.&nbsp; (And the answer is: No, not really.)&nbsp; Swarms are immune to &quot;weapon damage&quot; because you can't hurt 1,000 itty-bitty critters by swinging one single sword through their mass.&nbsp; But 1,000 other itty-bitty critters should be able to inflict quite a bit of damage on them.And here's something else I just thought of.&nbsp; The swarm subtype description in MM says: &quot;A swarm takes half again as much damage (+50%) from spells or effects that affect an area, such as splash weapons and many evocation spells.&quot;&nbsp; A swarm's attack is an effect that affects an area, so a case could be made that not only do swarms damage each other, they do so really well!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Peter Gibbons, post: 2690553, member: 35541"] The PHB has a glossary entry for "damage" that isn't particularly helpful here, but the real question is: does it make any sense that a Swarm of X would be immune to damage from a Swarm of Y. (And the answer is: No, not really.) Swarms are immune to "weapon damage" because you can't hurt 1,000 itty-bitty critters by swinging one single sword through their mass. But 1,000 [I]other[/I] itty-bitty critters should be able to inflict [I]quite a bit[/I] of damage on them. And here's something else I just thought of. The swarm subtype description in MM says: "A swarm takes half again as much damage (+50%) from spells or effects that affect an area, such as splash weapons and many evocation spells." A swarm's attack [B]is[/B] an effect that affects an area, so a case could be made that not only do swarms damage each other, they do so [I]really well![/I] [/QUOTE]

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