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<blockquote data-quote="Inconsequenti-AL" data-source="post: 1506169" data-attributes="member: 6584"><p>I wouldn't worry about what real scorpions do - if anyone starts to pick holes - well, these are 'scorpion men' in a world full of dragons and magic missiles! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>That hive mind wasp behaviour is particularly cool! Think I'm going to have to steal that...</p><p></p><p>If you're going with a hive, why not have a queen? Works rather well and can give them a real challenge! So much the better, if you can make it clear that it's been growing since they first had the opportunity to go there. Brings up the point of not doing things when you could do them. If that makes any sense!</p><p></p><p>Some other odds and sods:</p><p></p><p>Possibly they use human hosts for breeding - perhaps like Aliens - fits in well with a queen... Or possibly they're like the Bugs from Shadowrun - they put a bug 'soul' into a human body - this results in anything from a fully developed bug to a fully intact human body - with a bug brain. Middle ground is all manner of icky bug/human hybrids. </p><p></p><p>The hive is trashed. The scorpion men are the same as the ones you designed for earlier... however one of their predators has broken in and killed many of them. Perhaps it was something they were trying to summon for some other reason? One or more Air/Earth templated Demons/Devils could be suitable? Either way, I'd imagine such a thing would eat PCs as well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p>Perhaps they have other allies? Things or people they've dealt with or even been enslaved by?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Inconsequenti-AL, post: 1506169, member: 6584"] I wouldn't worry about what real scorpions do - if anyone starts to pick holes - well, these are 'scorpion men' in a world full of dragons and magic missiles! :) That hive mind wasp behaviour is particularly cool! Think I'm going to have to steal that... If you're going with a hive, why not have a queen? Works rather well and can give them a real challenge! So much the better, if you can make it clear that it's been growing since they first had the opportunity to go there. Brings up the point of not doing things when you could do them. If that makes any sense! Some other odds and sods: Possibly they use human hosts for breeding - perhaps like Aliens - fits in well with a queen... Or possibly they're like the Bugs from Shadowrun - they put a bug 'soul' into a human body - this results in anything from a fully developed bug to a fully intact human body - with a bug brain. Middle ground is all manner of icky bug/human hybrids. The hive is trashed. The scorpion men are the same as the ones you designed for earlier... however one of their predators has broken in and killed many of them. Perhaps it was something they were trying to summon for some other reason? One or more Air/Earth templated Demons/Devils could be suitable? Either way, I'd imagine such a thing would eat PCs as well. :) Perhaps they have other allies? Things or people they've dealt with or even been enslaved by? [/QUOTE]
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