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Re: Making a Swarm Effective Thank you very much for all of the feedback. I'm especially taken with the idea of making the swarm have a high presence attack. I think I shall incorporate that into the swarm I'm creating and see what mayhem can be had.

I want to build a swarm, but based on what I'm seeing in the rules they're really no more than a nuisance for the average adventuring hero. For example, a swarm of rats or bats would be pretty gross in real life, but assuming my understanding of the rules is correct, the attack would mean nothing to someone with even just a couple of points of armor. How do you make a swarm of small critters actually threatening? Also, is there a rule of thumb for converting a single critter into a swarm? I don't see a template in the book, and there isn't a single small insect or piranha entry for me to compare them singly vs. swarmly.

It's Gorgeous Looking! I was at Origins this past weekend and got to take a look at the sample of FH that Steve and friends brought with them. It looked absolutely great, and I truly envy anyone going to GenCon to snag a copy. Pseudo off topic: Just to add even more interest in GenCon... At Origins I played in a couple of FH scenarios that I'm told will also be run at GenCon. One was A Wizard's Errand and the other was The Temple of Modrem (think I got the spelling right on that). Both were absolutely great! Very well run and thought out scenaros. Oodles of fun. And don't let the 6 hour time slot for Temple scare you off - the 6 hours flew by.