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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5157315" data-attributes="member: 57383">Yes, I thought about that too, since dust of sneezing and choking does 2d6/1d6. The dust's "disabled by choking (treat as stunned) for 5d4 rounds" even if you make the save vs Con damage is what'll really kill you though.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />Speaking of which, here's an idea. Remember these fellows have young dust spiders coating their bodies, hence their "Shed Swarm" special ability - which we still haven't written up, by the way. Well, if mama spider dies and exploder into dust, what happens to her babies? Maybe the Death Throes also produces a dust spider swarm (or three <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />) where the spider dies, ready to punish the matricidal PCs by eating them alive while they are nauseated.I'd be game to drop the damage to 2d6/1d6 and reduce the nausea/sickness effect to make up for a "swarming death throes". Something like: Death Throes (Ex): When a greater dust spider dies, it  explodes in a 40 foot spread of deadly dust. All creatures within the  cloud must succeed on a DC 23  Fortitude save or be nauseated for 1d4+1  rounds and take 2d6 Constitution damage from violent sneezing and  chocking, those that save are merely sickened for 1d4 rounds. One minute  later, all creatures that were covered by the dust must succeed on  another DC23 Fortitude save or take an additional 1d6 Constitution  damage. In addition, any swarms of young the greater dust spider has not released (see Shed Swarm, below) appear were the greater dust spider dies and attack their dead parent's slayers as their next action. The save DC is  Constitution-based.Shed Swarm (Ex): A greater dust spider can release a lesser dust spider swarm as a standard action into any adjacent squares. A greater dust spider carries one swarm for every 8 hit dice it possesses. A Gargantuan spider can release two swarms as a standard action. We might want to increase its CR to allow for the swarms. That and the choking cloud/death throes could make it pretty nasty in a fight.Then again, I want them to be fairly nasty.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Challenge Rating 11?Oh, and how about this for a bit of flavour text:Greater dust spiders are the adult form of lesser dust spiders. They constantly birth size baby spiders from pores in their skin, these offspring swarm over their parent's body in a layer up to a foot thick. Most of its young are microscopic and will die a few seconds after being separated from the parent spider, the largest are about 6 inches across and ready to form swarms and make their own way in the world. A greater dust spider can release swarms of Diminutive-sized lesser dust spiders to attack its enemies and can puff out clouds of deadly, choking dust that are actually made up of dust-mote sized spiders.</blockquote>

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