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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tarangil" data-source="post: 2917090" data-attributes="member: 34763"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Hello All.  I have a question about swarms, I plan on using one soon but all I can't quite figure out some things about it.  First the SRD mentions:Swarms are extremely difficult to fight with physical attacks. However, they have a few special vulnerabilities, as follows: A lit torch swung as an improvised weapon deals 1d3 points of fire damage per hit. A weapon with a special ability such as flaming or frost deals its full energy damage with each hit, even if the weapon’s normal damage can’t affect the swarm. A lit lantern can be used as a thrown weapon, dealing 1d4 points of fire damage to all creatures in squares adjacent to where it breaks.The problem is is How are they difficult with Physical attacks?   My example is is that a swarm of rats would consist of 200-300 of the little peckers and the swarm stats has 18 hp's for it.  Now with a vulnerability such as throwing a lamp on it does 1d4 hp's how would the fighter with the greatsword and 18 strength be a vulnerability when he does 16 hp's in one hit?  Are physical attacks reduced to doing only 1 hit point per hit????Anyways besides that I plan on changing things to a swarm of Moon Rats, so there's some other factors such as the damage in their area that has to be considered since a regular rat swarm with a strength of 2 does 1d6, My moon rats will be in the 9-10 range for strength.Oh well, I'm thinking of just house-ruling it to where physical attacks are adjusted this way:Strength damage doesn't countsmall weapons  -1hpmedium weapons 1d2hplarge 1d3 hp</blockquote>

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