Gargantuan spider

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A gargantuan spider, s, is a type of monster that appears in EvilHack. The gargantuan spider is a huge, oviparous and carnivorous arachnid that is strong and capable of spinning webs, and drow heroes are capable of taming them with thrown food and applying saddles and barding to them.

A gargantuan spider has a poisonous bite attack and a touch attack that spreads webbing, and possesses poison resistance.

A gargantuan spider corpse is poisonous to eat, and eating a gargantuan spider corpse or tin grants 425 (16%) additional poison resistance.

Generation

Randomly generated gargantuan spiders are always created hostile. Giant spiders can grow up into gargantuan spiders.

Webs created at level generation may have a gargantuan spider placed atop them.

Drow clerics have a 121 chance of generating with a gargantuan spider as their mount.

Gargantuan spiders 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 gargantuan spider next to her at level creation.

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

Encyclopedia entry

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