Mike Shea

So you would say the ghouls are probably spaced out a little bit better than that.

But the idea of hitting 32, when I think about 80, that isn't totally out of hand, right?

But you could go with like 32 to 64 creatures for a huge area.

And then lines, you could have six creatures in a short line or eight creatures in a long.

You might make those bigger.

I wouldn't even say like you could have 16, you know, if you throw a lightning bolt and it just carves through a swath of ghouls, you could hit 16 ghouls with lightning bolt, right?

That could certainly see that.

So that one worked really well, right?

Those areas.

The other thing that I did that I think really added to this battle is I also had four giant ghouls.

I used the hill giant stat block.

I just reskinned hill giants.

And I had four hill giants.

And that way the characters had single big targets they could use for either crowd control or...

or you know things that they could hit know that they're fighting one monster or one monster that they could kind of keep and hold off to the side and make sure it wasn't hitting anybody else so that way there was a different kind of monster they had lots and lots of monsters to hit with areas of effect but if you're big melee people are like yeah but killing even three or four ghouls at a time is nothing compared to our wizard who's killing like 20 of them so i'm gonna go tank that big guy to make sure he doesn't hit the wizard that worked really well too

So what about attacks?

How do we adjudicate attacks?

Well, I made some rules of thumb up in my head.

And one of them was that no matter how surrounded you were by ghouls, really only six of them are going to be able to hit you.

So if there are five characters, each of those five are gonna be hit by six ghouls.