Multiple Attacks and Minions

[drayven]

I stumbled into the quickstart on drivethrurpg and ran a test sessions for my group and everyone loved it so it looks like we'll be switching over to P&P once we finish up our Dungeon World campaign. A few questions did come out in that test session though and I'm hoping some of you can help shed some light. The main questions revolved around multiple actions.
1. Is there a limit to the number of actions a hero can make?  I know that the penalty gets bigger as they do more things but I was wondering if there was a cap.
2. How do you handle multiple attacks against a minion group? I may have been running the henchmen wrong but I had them represented as like 16 different enemies who squared up in groups of 4 vs each hero. What I was running into was that my players would do multiple attack actions, targeting different enemies that were part of the same minion group. It just felt kind of weird because yes they were taking a dice penalty but they were also getting 2 or 3 attacks against what was essentially one target.

[LakeSide Len]

Glad you enjoyed!

1. There is no limit. Note however that the penalty applies to all attacks. Thus if you intend to make 3 attacks, all suffer a-4d penalty. The cumulative part comes in if you use the same trait to perform those attacks.

2. Long and short: a group of minions is considered one character. And you cannot use multiple actions to attack any character more than once. Thus as per RAW that doesn't work. Now, RAW aside -- and who cares about RAW, it's your game -- from a purely gut check perspective, you can't make multiple attacks on minions because the very fact that you can take out multiple minions per attack means that the rules already assume that heroes are unleashing multiple attacks on them. Multiple attacks are assumptively built into the minion rules. Allowing multiple actions on top of that kind of goes too far. At least, that's my two cents.

[drayven]

Sounds good and makes sense, I'll just have to work out in my head how to handle the narrative part of explaining to them that you can only attack this group of 4 guys one time because they're not 4, they're one That said, they don't seem to have any issues when they attack one guy and take out all his buddies with him...