If you do more damage than a monster's remaining HP, you can overflow the remaining damage to any other monsters who are close by.
This means you can easily crush 4 1HP fairies in a single swipe. The same applies to PC's: A dragon could wipe out your entire level 1 party with a bite. You can avoid this effect by spreading out.
Hey, why would you do that? It's great to have PCs terrified by mundane monsters!
ReplyDeleteIt's crazy that swarms are always more deadly than single opponents.
ReplyDeleteThey should be scared of the fairies because they paralysed a kid, cut his heart out, and then jumped into the cavity and started jerking him around like a dancing puppet. Not because there's 20 of them.