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#1 Pennarin Feb 07, 2006 1:24:08	The Dark Spiders (ToA) are critters as small as halflings, as intelligent as humans, and innate defilers or defiler/psions. How do you use them in your campaign? Are they widespread, do they inhabit all the dark corners, are there nests beneath each city, do they trade their services to evil characters in exchange for prey, are they mounting an invasion, were they present in the Green Age or did they rise later?
#2 pringles Feb 07, 2006 1:44:07	in my campaign, they live in the underdark of Athas, ruled under the Spider Sorcerer-King, king of all Spider.
#3 megatherion Feb 07, 2006 2:09:35	Lol! Dark spider templars casting flamestrikes as well as defiling for fireballs! That would be a sight! :D
#4 ruhl-than_sage Feb 07, 2006 10:05:58	You wouldn't think there would be much life underground to defile, what with those darn Dark Spiders innnately defiling all the time down there. Enventually they would completely run out of power for their spells and have to come out of hiding to concure the surface world.
#5 the_peacebringer Feb 07, 2006 10:23:14	I have a few ideas about a nefarious dark spider colony living in the Wind Break mountains near Gulg, but I haven't put much thought into that yet.
#6 zombiegleemax Feb 07, 2006 10:49:13	I always just made the Defiler ones a minority so as to have it make sense. The only Dark Spiders that have actively been involved in game are a group from when I did a Shattered Lands conversion. They don't have any defilers left though.
#7 jon_oracle_of_athas Feb 07, 2006 12:37:26	I've always liked Dark Spiders. They were one of my favorite monsters in 2E. I once ran an adventure where the PCs journeyed to the dephts of the dark spider nests and found the source of the dark spiders' magical abilities - a subterranean monolith of a dark rubbery material that had a pulse. The PCs destroyed it and the spiders lost their magical abilities. Who knows what powers that monolith could have bestowed upon the PCs...
#8 zombiegleemax Feb 07, 2006 13:01:41	IMC they were degenerate descendants of elves of the green age...sort of the athasian equivalent of drow or driders. they were a more evil group of surface dwelling elves that fled and hid underground when Albeorn came calling during the Cleansing Wars. life in the darkness, as well as their defiler queen and magics began to twist and mutate them. i had also incorporated symbiotic life-shape grafts they found deep in the caverns and tunnels underground and began to use, further twisting them, until they became a new breed of evil unto themselves...a far, dark cry from their once proud elven heritage...
#9 ruhl-than_sage Feb 07, 2006 13:29:06	IMC they were degenerate descendants of elves of the green age...sort of the athasian equivalent of drow or driders. they were a more evil group of surface dwelling elves that fled and hid underground when Albeorn came calling during the Cleansing Wars. life in the darkness, as well as their defiler queen and magics began to twist and mutate them. i had also incorporated symbiotic life-shape grafts they found deep in the caverns and tunnels underground and began to use, further twisting them, until they became a new breed of evil unto themselves...a far, dark cry from their once proud elven heritage... Ooooo, nice twist! Yoink!