Phase spider
The phase spider is a monster that appears in some variants.
Origin
Phase spiders are borrowed from Dungeons & Dragons.
The D&D incarnation resembles a large white spider with dark green patterns, and a humanoid head with two eyes. It's an ambush predator, phasing from a parallel dimension to surprise its prey, hence the name.
SLASH'EM
s phase spider 
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| Difficulty | 10 |
| Attacks |
Bite 3d4 poison |
| Base level | 8 |
| Base experience | 126 |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | 2 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | −4 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 100 |
| Nutritional value | 100 |
| Size | Large |
| Resistances | poison |
| Resistances conveyed |
poison (27%), causes teleportitis (40%) |
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A phase spider: | |
| Reference | SLASH'EM_0.0.7E7F2/monst.c#line1568 |
Encyclopedia entry
Phase potion, which is related to oil of etherealness, is more
useful for general combat. When imbibed, this potion allows the
user to shift in and out of phase with the Prime Material plane
at will, much like a phase spider. When out of phase, the user
is impervious to all forms of attack except those that reach
into Ethereal plane. ... Phase potions are brewed from phase-spider
ichor or from the concentrated juices of rare underground fungi.
[ RPG Sheets by Amalor Mymnyx ]
Phase Spiders are not true Spiders, but an alien race which
appear as giant spiders with humanoid shaped heads. Phase Spiders
speak a whispery language which is reminiscent of the sound of the
wind blowing through the trees. ... Phase Spiders are considered
Enlightened creatures as they have the ability to phase in and out
of our normal space-time into what most scientists would refer to
as Void-Space. Phase Spiders use this ability to their great
advantage in combat.
[ Alien Update Lexicon by Randy Walker ]
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dNetHack
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| Difficulty | 13 |
| Attacks |
Bite 2d8 poison (dexterity), Claw 2d4 teleportation, Claw 2d4 teleport away |
| Base level | 8 |
| Base experience | 133 |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | −3 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 2 (Quite rare) |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 50 |
| Nutritional value | 50 |
| Size | small |
| Resistances | poison |
| Resistances conveyed | |
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A phase spider:
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Phase spiders favor hit-and-run attacks, biting you and then teleporting away to prevent retaliation. This tactic is of questionable use against poison resistant characters, however. Their attack can teleport you, subject to teleport control.
In addition to being able to teleport, phase spiders in dNetHack can phase through walls.
Encyclopedia entry
Sometimes confused with neogi or driders and called planar spiders on some worlds of the Prime, phase spiders are intelligent web-spinners with a raised thorax and a humanlike head. What really makes phase spiders stand out is their enviable ability to phase back and forth between a plane and the plane's Border.
Unknown to most creatures, phase spiders possess large web habitats on the Ethereal (both in the Deep and on the Border) and only appear on other planes while hunting for food. Some phase spiders do live mostly on material planes, but these spiders are the exception, not the rule. Like many more familiar cultures, Ethereally-based phase spiders are not a cohesive race, but instead exist in separate clutches (tribes), each of which claims various Prime territories as its sole hunting ground. Sometimes disparate phase spider clutches cooperate, but sometimes they come into conflict over temtorial disputes.
