Deadly Spider

Spider Swarm (CR 3)

Neutral - Diminutive - Swarm (Vermin)

Lore:	K. (Dungeoneer)
6		21
Basic DC		Full DC

Initiative

5

Perception:
15	+5
Passive	Active

Ambush:

10+

on a d20

Senses:

• Standard Senses
• Darkvision 60 ft.
• Tremorsense 30 ft.

Movement Types:

• Walk 20 ft.
• Greater Climb 20 ft.

Defense

AC

18

Man Def

17

Monster Health
51	25	4
Hit Points	Bloodied	Hit Dice

Saving Throws
Fort:	+6
Refl:	+6
Will:	+0

Strong Against:

• (Mindless) Immune (no effect): all mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, fear, morale effects, patterns, and phantasms)
• (Swarm 1) Hardened (½ damage): slashing (physical, common), piercing (physical, common)
• (Swarm 2) Immune (no effect): Critical Hits and Flanking
• (Swarm 3) Immune (no effect): any attack that targets Maneuver Defense
• (Swarm 4) Immune (no effect): any spell that targets a specific number of creatures, except mind-affecting spells (if this creature has an Int score).

Weak Against:

Offense

Size:	Diminutive
1 ft.		0 ft.
Space		Reach

To-Hit

+6

Man Off

+5

Action

0

Points

Standard Attack (Melee):

• 1x Overrun +6 (1d10+2/x2)
  as crushing (physical, common)
  plus Spider Venom and Distraction

Full Attack (Melee):

• 1x Overrun +6 (1d10+2/x2)
  as crushing (physical, common)
  plus Spider Venom and Distraction

Standard Attack (Ranged):

Full Attack (Ranged):

Siege Damage: Not siege capable

Statistics

1

STR

17

DEX

10

CON

—

INT

10

WIS

2

CHA

Skills:

• Movement: 5 (+8 when climbing)
• Perception: 5
• All other skills: 0 (no ranks)

Languages:

Feats:

Special Abilities

Spider Venom (Ex) Automatic

Any damage inflicted by a Spider Swarm has a chance to inflict a weak poison: Spider Venom    (Injury vector; Tainted intensity) Save: Fort DC 15;     Frequency: 1/round for 3 rounds Effect: 1d2 STR Dilution and 1d8+1 points of poison (physical, uncommon) per interval Fruition: none Fruition Duration: n/a

Distraction (Ex) Automatic after damage

Any living creature that takes damage from a swarm must make a Fortitude save, DC 15, or become Afflicted. If the creature makes the save, they are instead Sickened. If they take damage on any following round while still Sickened or Afflicted, they must make another DC 15 Fortitude save, or move up one step on the Status Array. While sharing a space with the swarm, you cannot get rid of the Sickened condition. At the end of any round in which you are outside of the swarm, you may make another DC 15 Fortitude save to attempt to move down a step on the status array. (While outside of the swarm's space, you cannot go up on the status array if you fail the save, you simply remain at the status you currently have.) Nauseated ==> Afflicted ==> Sickened In addition, spellcasting or concentrating on spells within the area of a swarm requires a Caster Check against the swarm's Maneuver Defense of 17. Using skills that involve patience and concentration require a DC 15 Will save.

Spider Swarm

Massive swarms of spiders are occasional hazards encountered in dark and abandoned places. Individual spiders of this size are of no threat whatsoever to an adventurer, although they can still give one a good startle. Several thousand spiders packed atop one another in a seething mass of scuttling legs and poisonous fangs?

That's enough to threaten any adventurer and startle just about anybody.

Combat Tactics

Spider swarms wish to engulf you. They will charge as fast as they can to get into the space of their prey. About the only 'tactic' they use is their fondness for crawling on ceilings. Whenever possible a spider swarm will crawl up to a ceiling and drop onto victims as a sudden rain of leggy creepy crawlers. Bleah.

Multiple swarms can move into, stop and occupy spaces that other swarms occupy. However, no more than two swarms can inflict damage or effects on a single target.

Out of Combat

Spider swarms can live nearly anywhere — in forests, shrubbery, amidst crops, basically anywhere that food is likely to pass nearby. They prey on any animals or humanoids that come too close, and only require such a meal about once a week, thought they'll always save some for later, in their rather prodigious webs.

Rewards

XP: 800

Treasure: Sellable Goods worth 813 gp.

Weight: 30 lbs.     Volume: 1.2 cu. ft.

Optional Treasure Rules: Roll a d20 on Table 1 below once per encounter (NOT per creature). Any items discovered are in addition to the normal treasure for the encounter.

Table 1: Remnant(s) Found
1 - 10	Nothing Found
11 - 14	1 Languid Remnant (tier 1)
15 - 17	1 Pale Remnant (tier 2)
18 - 19	1 Bright Remnant (tier 3)
20	Roll on Table 2
###	Nothing to see here!
###	Or here. Move along.

Table 2: Remnant(s) Found
1 - 5	3 Languid Remnants (tier 1)
6 - 10	3 Pale Remnants (tier 2)
11 - 14	1 Intense Remnant (tier 4)
15 - 17	1 Blazing Remnant (tier 5)
18 - 19	1 Vital Remnant (tier 6)
20	Roll on Table 3
###	Or here. Move along.

Table 3: Remnant(s) Found
1 - 5	3 Bright Remnants (tier 3)
6 - 8	3 Intense Remnants (tier 4)
9 - 11	3 Blazing Remnants (tier 5)
12 - 14	3 Vital Remnants (tier 6)
15 - 17	1 Prime Remnant (tier 7)
18 - 19	1 Mythic Remnant (tier 8)
20	1 Empyrean Remnant (tier 9)