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I was arguing with my DM over if the Trampling special ability allowed you to run over many units. I said that my summoned celestial elephant could run in a straight line and trample all units it runs over; my MD said I had to stop over the first I run over.

What's your take?

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You can run over multiple.

Looking at d20srd.org, the rules for trampling state: "The creature merely has to move over the opponents in its path". The plural "opponents" is used several times in the description.

Line them up and mow them down :)

Also, there is no mention about being forced to stop prior to moving twice your speed for any reason.

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Thank you. My rulebooks are in French and it's more ambiguous than that. – zneak Sep 7 '10 at 0:27

As Pat notes, the Trample special ability allows you to make multiple such attacks per round; your DM may have been thinking of the Trample feat, which is, of course, totally unrelated to the Trample special ability; it instead improves the Overrun special attack, which does not allow more than one use per round (even with the feat).

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Nah, it really was the special ability. We've read the description out loud a few times. – zneak Sep 8 '10 at 1:30

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