Drider (EvilHack)

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A drider, s, is a type of monster that appears in EvilHack. The drider is a large spider-like monster with centaur-esque anatomy that is the result of drow being converted into humanoid–spider hybrids: they retain the humanoid upper body and can wear armor on it, but below the waist they have the form of an eight-legged spider, and are the only spiders that a drow hero cannot tame with thrown food. Driders are strong, accurate, can see invisible, possess ultravision, will pick up weapons and armor they come across, can cast an aura of darkness in lit areas, and can go berserk at low health.

A drider has two weapon attacks, a poisonous bite, and a spitting attack that spreads webs, and they possess sleep resistance and poison resistance.

A drider corpse is poisonous to eat, and eating a drider corpse or tin grants 425 each (16%) of additional sleep resistance and poison resistance.

Generation

Randomly generated driders are always created hostile.

Driders appear among the random s that are part of the first quest monster class for Tourists and make up 24175 of the monsters randomly generated on the Tourist quest. They also appear among the random s that are part of the second quest monster class for Rangers and make up 6175 of the monsters randomly generated on the Ranger quest.

If Lolth is the inhabitant of the second-tier demon lord lair in Gehennom, two of the possible maps will generate a drider next to her at level creation, while the remaining map will generate two driders next to her at level creation.

A drider has a 23 chance of being generated with a dark elven bow and a stack of dark elven arrows, and will otherwise be given a dark elven hand crossbow and a stack of dark elven crossbow bolts—the projectiles have a 1100 chance of being coated in drow poison. A drider also has a 23 chance of being generated with either a dark elven spear (effective 12 chance), a dark elven broadsword (effective 19 chance) or a dark elven long sword (effective 118 chance) as their meee weapon, as well as an independent 13 chance of either a dark elven tunic (effective 518 chance) or dark elven chain mail (effective 118 chance) as their armor.

Driders generated at level creation are given a random item to hide under, despite being incapable of hiding.

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