I also found the rules for combat slightly vague when it comes to multiple enemies. Do I fight them one at a time? Do I roll and attempt to attack all of them in each round? Do I attack one, but they all attack me? I sort of just decided how I wanted to do it and went with it for the sewer rat encounters, but it would have been nice to have more guidance on that, especially if I weren't someone with RPG experience.
I just went down the list of enemies, starting at the top. But I let each one in an encounter attack me each round until they were dead. This may have been harder than intended though. It meant I couldn't attack the harder enemies first, but they were attacking me the whole time. And that might explain why I'm almost constantly on the brink of death.
Wow, that would be harder if an enemy was attacking you and you couldn't attack it.
I see where you are coming from with past experience if you were surrounded by enemies. Everyone gets to go in one round.
In this case, no. You fight one enemy at a time and only move on when you kill it.
I added
"Focus on one enemy at a time:
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5. Earn your reward. Once the enemy DIES, gain the gold reward listed. Move to the next enemy if there is one."