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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kelleris" data-source="post: 2651725" data-attributes="member: 19130">It's also not a very good example, IMO.  There's no reason a "prone" centipede swarm wouldn't continue to deal damage to all creatures in its space.  That's not what being prone does, anyway - in terms of blunting a creature's offensive abilities, grease gives a penalty on the attack rolls that the swarm isn't making anyway.It does make some sense to me that the centipedes, churning their way through a couple of inches of slime splattered on the ground, could take a few moments to get themselves moving as a single mass again.  The slime just makes coordinated movement slightly harder for them - they have to take a move action to recover themselves - and doesn't do a thing to their ability to nibble a chunk out of the poor sap caught in their space because they don't have to act as a coherent whole to do that.</blockquote>