Questions tagged [swarm]
For questions about swarms. A swarm generally refers to a large group of some type of small creature, usually one that is little or no threat individually, which is treated as a single foe by game mechanics.
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Where, exactly, is it laid out that a torch can do damage to swarms?
So it's pretty common that people say that torches can do a single point of fire damage to swarms. However, my group can't seem to find any sources that confirm this.
Basically, it comes down to ...
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How could I phys-rep a swarm of flying creatures?
Suppose my referee friend wanted to send a swarm of bees, bats, crows, or some other small flying creatures at some players. How could he simulate something that'd evoke the right reactions?
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Are the rats in 5e over powered? [closed]
So killer rat swarms in D&D always seemed weirdly overpowered to me. In 5e a swarm of rats does 2d6 damage, or the equivalent of being hit by someone swinging a greatsword every six seconds. Or ...
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Can swarms be pushed or pulled?
Following up my question about grappling conditions on swarms, a situation came up in my group when the Druid attempted to use the spell Thorn Whip to pull a swarm of piranhas on shore to defeat them, ...
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Can you grapple a swarm?
While it doesn't make sense from a rules as intended perspective, I haven't seen anything in the Grapple section or your average swarm's stat-block that protect it from being grappled.
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If someone attacks a swarm with a single-target spell while it's in a character's space, is that character also affected by the spell?
My players have walked into a Spider Lair and fought their first group of Spiderlings, or effectively a Swarm of Spiders from the MM. I didn't realize until after the encounter that they have a reach ...
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Handling many similar opponents in combat
I plan to send my players into a town of about 600 inhabitants. Overnight the town will be infested with zombies, with about 400 inhabitants turned. When my players awake, they will need to get out of ...
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Alchemic fire/bomb vs. Swarm of Fine creatures
There is another discussion in our group and since my Google Foo and Rules Lawyering skill is not very high, I decided to bring this up.
According to swarm traits
A swarm composed of Fine or ...
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Should I replace the swarm with the individual creature after enough damage?
So one thing I found odd in the DM's Basic Rules v0.1pdf was a large list of animals that seemed so insignificant as to wonder why it was included in the PDF. For example, the "Rat" monster, has 1 ...
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Can a Druid Wild Shape into a Swarm or "Giant"?
The Players handbook has a list of creatures in the back which are designed for use by the players. Various tweets and materials have said that the players handbook has creatures that players need to ...
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Does a non-magical character have any options to fight a swarm without fire?
In a session with a witch, a wizard and me, a rogue with a knife and crossbow, I found my character to be astonishingly useless against swarms. There was a swarm of Hellwasps and I quite literally ...
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