Page 34 of Megaverse Builder mentions creating the storms as a natural ability, but then no mechanics are actually given - it just talks about how they tend to live within the tunnels if they ever exit them will be attracted by Rifts to get back in there...
Pg 26 has the rules for how these storms operate, and pg 28 embellishes this if you randomly encounter a nest: "can actually create displacement storms and they more likely than not created this one"
The only mechanic I know of to actually generate a D-Storm in the first place though is as a side effect of a D-Maelstrom - page 23 has a "bad to worse" option (a 10% chance during a D-Maelstrom) where you take half of the usual Maelstrom damage and get tossed into the storm.
Maelstroms themselves are a % chance you roll when close (I assume 2 miles) to a ley line that had a storm in the last 4 months (pretty much anywhere in the magic zone) but that seems to be like a fixed chance unrelated to tampering from the Nexus Spider species.
How would we actually weigh in here about how the spiders are increasing the odds of storms? There's just nothing explained at all about the natural ability.
how does a Nexus Spider create a Displacement Storm (DB 7)
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Re: how does a Nexus Spider create a Displacement Storm (DB 7)
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Re: how does a Nexus Spider create a Displacement Storm (DB 7)
Lots of creatures have magical powers that, while they might mimic a spell, are not actually spells just natural abilities intrinsic to their species. On the low end you have lots of creatures that naturally speak and understand all languages. While this is identical to the tongues spell it's not actually a spell and just something they do.
Also, as these creatures are strictly NPC monsters that your PC's must kill or escape from the how is only of academic curiosity. In my head canon there very presence disrupts a rift, sort of a nega-psychic effect, causing the displacement storm.
Also, as these creatures are strictly NPC monsters that your PC's must kill or escape from the how is only of academic curiosity. In my head canon there very presence disrupts a rift, sort of a nega-psychic effect, causing the displacement storm.
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Re: how does a Nexus Spider create a Displacement Storm (DB 7)
I'm just wondering statwise how to go with it, like a single spider changing any rift into a d-storm would be crazy, but maybe if it was something like each spider has a 10% chance of making it happening then we can see how the more spiders group together the closer that % chance approaches 100%