Can a monster with many tentacles grapple multiple times or targets per round?

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Are there rules for the attacker to grapple multiple defenders? Can that attacker, with more than two arms, attack a new defender each round, or grapple many defenders as a full round action? I am looking for a RAW answer; if I have to I'll house rule it.



The creature I am making resembles a displacer beast, with six tentacles and a mouth like a lamprey. I would like to use the bite feature only if the defender is grappled; defenders breaking grapple will free themselves from the bite. While it can only bite one at a time, should a defender break free it can then bite another.




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Are there rules for the attacker to grapple multiple defenders? Can that attacker, with more than two arms, attack a new defender each round, or grapple many defenders as a full round action? I am looking for a RAW answer; if I have to I'll house rule it.



The creature I am making resembles a displacer beast, with six tentacles and a mouth like a lamprey. I would like to use the bite feature only if the defender is grappled; defenders breaking grapple will free themselves from the bite. While it can only bite one at a time, should a defender break free it can then bite another.




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    Related answer that briefly touches on whether creatures without hands can Grapple with the Attack action
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Are there rules for the attacker to grapple multiple defenders? Can that attacker, with more than two arms, attack a new defender each round, or grapple many defenders as a full round action? I am looking for a RAW answer; if I have to I'll house rule it.



The creature I am making resembles a displacer beast, with six tentacles and a mouth like a lamprey. I would like to use the bite feature only if the defender is grappled; defenders breaking grapple will free themselves from the bite. While it can only bite one at a time, should a defender break free it can then bite another.




dnd-5e monsters grapple




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Are there rules for the attacker to grapple multiple defenders? Can that attacker, with more than two arms, attack a new defender each round, or grapple many defenders as a full round action? I am looking for a RAW answer; if I have to I'll house rule it.



The creature I am making resembles a displacer beast, with six tentacles and a mouth like a lamprey. I would like to use the bite feature only if the defender is grappled; defenders breaking grapple will free themselves from the bite. While it can only bite one at a time, should a defender break free it can then bite another.





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    Related answer that briefly touches on whether creatures without hands can Grapple with the Attack action
    – David Coffron
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    Related answer that briefly touches on whether creatures without hands can Grapple with the Attack action
    – David Coffron
    9 hours ago







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Related answer that briefly touches on whether creatures without hands can Grapple with the Attack action
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Related answer that briefly touches on whether creatures without hands can Grapple with the Attack action
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Yes, some monsters can do this.



Check out the Kraken.



It can Multiattack for three tentacle attacks in one action, each of which can grapple a different target, until all of its ten arms are full.



An ability like this would have to appear on a monster's stat block; it's not really generalizable.



Since you’re creatung the monster, you can give it a Multiattack action that says how its multiple grapples work.






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Yes, some monsters can do this.



Check out the Kraken.



It can Multiattack for three tentacle attacks in one action, each of which can grapple a different target, until all of its ten arms are full.



An ability like this would have to appear on a monster's stat block; it's not really generalizable.



Since you’re creatung the monster, you can give it a Multiattack action that says how its multiple grapples work.






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up vote
8
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accepted










Yes, some monsters can do this.



Check out the Kraken.



It can Multiattack for three tentacle attacks in one action, each of which can grapple a different target, until all of its ten arms are full.



An ability like this would have to appear on a monster's stat block; it's not really generalizable.



Since you’re creatung the monster, you can give it a Multiattack action that says how its multiple grapples work.






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  • Thanks for cleaning up my link formatting.
    – Mark Wells
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up vote
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up vote
8
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accepted






Yes, some monsters can do this.



Check out the Kraken.



It can Multiattack for three tentacle attacks in one action, each of which can grapple a different target, until all of its ten arms are full.



An ability like this would have to appear on a monster's stat block; it's not really generalizable.



Since you’re creatung the monster, you can give it a Multiattack action that says how its multiple grapples work.






share|improve this answer















Yes, some monsters can do this.



Check out the Kraken.



It can Multiattack for three tentacle attacks in one action, each of which can grapple a different target, until all of its ten arms are full.



An ability like this would have to appear on a monster's stat block; it's not really generalizable.



Since you’re creatung the monster, you can give it a Multiattack action that says how its multiple grapples work.







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