“It is a better world. A place where we are responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and because it is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.” ― Oramis, Eldest by Christopher Paolini.
Not really. A lot of people I've known or encountered online think about game stuff in the same way as you have in this case.
It's where the old tales of wizards being killed by house cats came from, and now "deadly" quartets of bats, and I'm sure there will be some similar thing in the future.
Because no matter that the game has always set things up so that this scenarios aren't actually true (by which I mean that the DM is not going to roll out combat between a PC and a house cat, nor is it likely that commoners will be facing off against bats with dice rolls and combat rules involved), the writers of game material will still provide mechanical details for one thing or another that really doesn't even need to have details and as a result will create these goofy by-the-book scenarios.
Say what you will, I'm rolling out a Deadly Bat Quartet in the next adventure I run! (I also think it should make it into Aaron's signature in some way or form.)
I recall the deadly "cat" hypothetical scenarios of times of yore, which is why my thought process at such at innocuous statement amused me so (enough to post it). :p Sadly, the cat has been nerfed.
That said, if I were to design a mosquito, I'd likely have it do 0 damage and force Con vs disease on a successful "attack". Hmm.
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.
Animal friendship on swarm of bat,snake,quipper,rat,raven?????
Animal friendship has a single beast as target. A swarm is not a single beast, so no.
Speak with Animals will let you try Handle Animal check a swarm, but Filecat is correct.
Thank you all!
Swarms are immune to charm anyway
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“It is a better world. A place where we are responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and because it is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.” ― Oramis, Eldest by Christopher Paolini.
But you can be "that guy" and attempt to catch one mosquito! I'm not sure it'd have much to talk about...
"Hey skeeter.. Where's the evil wizard?"
"Drink a lot of water today?"
"Huh?"
"Did you have enough protein?"
"Sure.."
-1 hp
lol
My first reaction was "1hp? *gasp* Four mosquitoes can kill a commoner!" Followed by "This is likely a Stirge".
Then I saw the damage of the blood drain of a Stirge. Hm.
Then I checked the Bat. Four bats can kill a commoner!
Oh well. Bats or mosquitoes, commoners have it rough.
...I have weird thought processes, I suspect.
HP is an abstract representation of well being. People die to mosquito every day. Beware those with meager constitutions!
Say what you will, I'm rolling out a Deadly Bat Quartet in the next adventure I run! (I also think it should make it into Aaron's signature in some way or form.)
I recall the deadly "cat" hypothetical scenarios of times of yore, which is why my thought process at such at innocuous statement amused me so (enough to post it). :p
Sadly, the cat has been nerfed.
That said, if I were to design a mosquito, I'd likely have it do 0 damage and force Con vs disease on a successful "attack". Hmm.
People die from or are afflicted with diseases carried by mosquitoes every day. However, it would take between 200,000 and 2 million mosquito bites to kill someone: https://www.outdoors.org/articles/amc-outdoors/how-many-mosquito-bites-would-kill-you/
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.
― Friedrich Nietzsche