Turn Undead and Swarms

[Hammith]

We were doing a small playtest thing using some online tools earlier tonight and came across an oddity with the new Turn Undead and Swarms. Should the healing from Turn Undead affect swarms?

We ruled 'no' primarily on two reasons:
1) Swarms generally lose HP due to bits of them dying, not due to bleeding, bruising, etc.
2) Most healing spells are single target, and as swarms are immune to single target spells, they're generally immune to them.

We'll be playtesting in an actual campaign starting next weekend, I'll probably post notes of problems that we have in their respective folders as we come to the problems.

The playtest group included:
Hammith
seekerofshadowlight
BM
pretjah
Takasi
Kenku

[CrackedOzy]

I'd agree with you on the basis of you first point, not the second, because Turn Undead healing isnt a single target ability.

[Pneumonica]

Seconding Cracked's post in its entirety. That and the steep nasty of healing swarms. If I was a cleric, insect swarm would be my god.

[CrackedOzy]

Oh man, I never even thought about how great that would be with your own swarms, yeah TU healing should definitely NOT affect swarms.