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6/9/2025, 10:23:51 AM
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>15 giant rats.. how many can attack me at once?
These are the factors to consider.
Monster size. A Giant Rat is 3' long (or larger) in B/X and S size in AD&D.
Grid or miniatures. Assuming you use a grid, you will first of all have to rule on how much space on the board a giant rat takes up. If you use the most common 3.33 foot squares (or hexes), it's reasonable to have one Giant Rat per space, whether hex or square. That leaves enough space to, in theory, have six or eight rats surrounding one of your characters. If you're using miniatures, then the bases are the constraint, but with a giant rat that's 3 foot long or larger, you'll probably get the same result.
Tactics. Just because eight giant rats can surround a character, doesn't mean they actually can do it. The characters likely has opened the door to the room, have approached the chamber from a corridor, or have met the Giant Rats as wandering monsters in a corridor. In all of those cases, they will only have to face up to three giant rats in front of their party, because only three giant rats can fit abreast in a 10' corridor, and once a rat gets adjacent to a character it cannot move anymore, so the party cannot get encircled.
If instead they were in the middle of the room, and the Giant Rats arrived as wandering monsters and surprised the party, then yeah, they will have to face 15 attacks per round.
>15 giant rats.. how many can attack me at once?
These are the factors to consider.
Monster size. A Giant Rat is 3' long (or larger) in B/X and S size in AD&D.
Grid or miniatures. Assuming you use a grid, you will first of all have to rule on how much space on the board a giant rat takes up. If you use the most common 3.33 foot squares (or hexes), it's reasonable to have one Giant Rat per space, whether hex or square. That leaves enough space to, in theory, have six or eight rats surrounding one of your characters. If you're using miniatures, then the bases are the constraint, but with a giant rat that's 3 foot long or larger, you'll probably get the same result.
Tactics. Just because eight giant rats can surround a character, doesn't mean they actually can do it. The characters likely has opened the door to the room, have approached the chamber from a corridor, or have met the Giant Rats as wandering monsters in a corridor. In all of those cases, they will only have to face up to three giant rats in front of their party, because only three giant rats can fit abreast in a 10' corridor, and once a rat gets adjacent to a character it cannot move anymore, so the party cannot get encircled.
If instead they were in the middle of the room, and the Giant Rats arrived as wandering monsters and surprised the party, then yeah, they will have to face 15 attacks per round.
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