Carnivorous Tadpole Swarm (Solitary, Tiny)
Drains Blood (d10-2 damage 1 piercing) 6 HP
Hand
Special Qualities: Aquatic
The immature aquatic form of Flying Vampire Frog these vampiric tadpoles can represent a real threat when the creatures blood lust causes them to form a swarm.
Instinct: Drain Blood!
Swarms
Attacks in a frenzy
Relentless
It’s a swarm, but also solitary?
Is the idea that you abstract the swarm by treating it as a single creature?
Robert Rendell Yes. It’s a DW tradition!
Here is something I used in the adventure I recently published that might be useful:
New Tag: Swarm
Swarms are a dense group of tiny creatures such as bees and rats that move in unison, effectively acting as one creature. Hack and slashing or volleying a swarm with just arrows inst quite effective against it (roll damage twice and choose the lower result) but attacks that damage an area are quite effective. Once a swarm has lost most of its creatures (reaching 0 HP), the swarm disperses.
Rat Swarm
Solitary, stealthy, swarm
Bite (d10 damage) 12 HP
hand
Ravenous, vicious, dealing with rats or a giant one is a nasty business but a swarm of hungry
rats is even worse. Sometimes behind those hungry eyes you can trace hints of malicious intelligence or was it just your imagination?
Instinct: To devour everything on it’s path.
• Overwhelm a larger creature.
• Quickly devour a smaller creature, leaving nothing but metal and bones.
• Transmit a disease.