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Greetings dakka!

So I attended tournament yesterday, and I was using my Eldar vs Tyranids. At one stage things got particularly hairy for me when I was surrounded by the Swarmlord + 3 Tervigons. I went to make one of my Psychic tests, but my opponent indicated that I had to roll an additional D6 for EACH synapse creature that was in range of my farseers. I wasn't quite sure about this, so I looked up the Tyranid FAQ:

Tyranid FAQ wrote:Page 33 – Shadow in the Warp, second paragraph.
Change to “Any enemy psyker within 12” of a Tyranid with the
Shadow in the Warp special rule must roll an extra dice when
taking Psychic tests, and will suffer a Perils of the Warp attack
on the roll of any double 1 or double 6.

I read this as saying if i'm within range of a creature (one or more) then i'd have the additional D6 penalty - my opponent argued that this means EACH creature. We weren't going to agree on this mid game, so we D6d it and I came out on top (went on to lose the game though). What i'd like to know is the correct way of playing this? Given that things like Eldar runes don't stack, i'd have thought that this would be the same?

Input appreciated Dakka!

The criteria is met whether there is 1 or 6. You still only roll the single d6 extra.

^^^^^^
This statement all the way. Shadows in the warp doesn't give you permission to stack its effects.
Would be really lame.

No, it is not stackable with itself. But if another effect would make a 3d6 psyker roll, it would stack on that, hence the changed wording as per the FAQ.

Well this is what I thought also, but my opponent was pretty convinced that it was the other way around. I can see his point to be fair, but yeah I definately think that it's not stackable.