Multiple and Combined Attack

[MrAgdesh]

How many of you use these to devastating effect in your games?

 

I was talking with some friends about 1E D&Ds "# of attacks" (the old Claw/Claw/Bite) - a Multiple Attack as I see it -  and of course the Level Drain attached to sheer damage of many of the Undead, e.g. 6E Wight with "Life-Draining Touch", "Paralysis of Fear" and "Claws" as a Combined Attack. 

 

 

Edited May 23, 2024 by MrAgdesh

[Christopher R Taylor]

I haven't been able to play for quite a while now, and I never really used either very often.  Back when they were called "cleave" or "sweep" my players used to do it pretty often.

[Scott Ruggels]

Sweep, i.e. one attack on the three forward hexes was a common attack type with certain fighting style in my fantasy Hero campaign.  Was effective with certain weapons. There was a monster that coordinated a weapon strike, and a tail strike, to clear all the hexes around them.