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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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Can a swarm of insects throw a magic stone?
Background:
I'm playing a level 2 artificer
I have the Magic Stone cantrip
I have a magic item that summons a swarm of insects (per the 2014 monster manual) under my control. The DM has clarified that ...
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What happens if you increase a swarm size?
In pathfinder 1st edition there's plenty of ways to increase the size of a swarm, some examples are Mad Monkeys + Rod of Giant Summoning, a Swarm Monger Druid with a Mauler Familiar or simply ...
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Is a Swarm Attack considered a Natural Attack?
Straightforward question, but I couldn't find anything in the rules saying that it is, or it isn't.
From a rules point of view, the entry for Natural Attacks doesn't list all of the possible existing ...
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Swarm Monger Druid's Fecund Familiar interaction with the Merge with Familiar spell
Fecund Familiar (Ex): ...As a standard action, a swarm monger can cause her familiar to burst forth into a full swarm of identical creatures, filling four contiguous 5-foot squares and gaining ...
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Are Zombees possible?
Suppose that a necromancer has the corpses of a large number of bees (a whole swarm of them, in fact) that have been killed in such a way that it leaves the individual bee corpses intact.
Is it ...
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Does being in the same space as a swarm reduce the chance of being hit by an attack?
I'm running the Curse of Strahd adventure for DnD 5e.
The party is fighting Baba Lysaga, who already has 3/4 cover, giving her +5 AC as she flies on a skull.
I was thinking about adding Swarms of ...
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Do creatures with a reach of 0 get attacks of opportunity when a foe moves away?
Some creatures like swarms have a reach of 0 with their attacks-- do they even get attacks of opportunity when someone leaves their reach?
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Can you stack swarms?
Swarm of Bats for example states:
Swarm. The swarm can occupy another creature’s space and vice versa, and the swarm can move through any opening large enough for a Tiny bat. The swarm can’t regain ...
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Can you use Awaken on an Insect Swarm and affect the whole swarm? [duplicate]
A swarm of insect technically counts as a single "creature", but Awaken only specifics targeting a "beast" or "plant". Note it doesn't say a single beast or plant, just a ...
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"Each of your turns" Gathered swarm clarification
I'm trying to figure out if I can do the reaction polearm master and use gathered swarm if I hit
I'm just honestly confused by the "each of your turns" part of gathered swarm.
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Are single swarms of Large size completely shapeable in Pathfinder?
This D&D 3.5 question touches on this subject. Recently in a Pathfinder 1e game, it came to my attention that Paizo removed the second line clarifying that swarms were shapeable 10' creatures.
I ...
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How many swarms of centipedes can I fit in a 40 gallon barrel?
I'm playing in D&D 5e. I want to buy barrels of centipedes in Chult. How many swarms can I get per 40 gallon barrel?
Given a 40 gallon barrel, and a 5x5 (medium sized) swarm of centipedes, how ...
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Can you create the illusion of a swarm with Major Image?
The spells Phantasmal Force and Major Image allow you to create the illusion of a creature, here for example the text from Major Image:
You create the image of an object, a creature, or some other ...
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How do Swarms interact with Damage Reduction?
As far as I understand Swarms are basically a hundred (or thousand) of the same creature and instead of having each of them roll to hit for one damage it is abstracted with swarms dealing damage based ...
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Tiny swarms and weapons with multiple damage types
I've just run an encounter for my players with several Carrionstorms. While doing so, one of my players with a weapon that did both Bludgeoning and Piercing damage (Akashic Mysteries' Hand Cannons ...
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