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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMH" data-source="post: 2177392" data-attributes="member: 24945">All vermin should drop darkvision and replace it with blindsense and tremorsense. They should have at least +4 to all spot and search checks. Arthropods should gain a strength bonus if Small or larger; it should be 6+ their size modifier for strength. Some arthropods that are known for mandibular strength and embedded metals (like zinc and iron) in their mandibles, such as some ants and beetles, should ignore half the hardness of objects.There is a species of beetle that hunts ants in a very unusual manner. It just sits there, waiting. Ants are attracted to the odor of the beetle and find the hairs on the beetle's thorax unresistable. They consume one or more hairs and then act like a drunk until they are totally incapacitated and then the beetle eats the ant.Tarantula-killers and cicadas-killers are wasps that paralyse those inverts and lay one or more eggs in it. A giant wasp nest might hold living humans that are paralysed- like the dwarves in the Hobbit.Some ants and termites raise fungi as food by providing lots of leaf matter. As much as 17% of all tropical forest leafmatter is harvested by ants. I have read termites can consume more than 7 tons of grass/acre/year in tropical grasslands. Whole forests should be stripped bare when either giant form shows up.</blockquote>