Large spider
| s large spider (No tile) | |
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| Difficulty | 3 |
| Attacks |
Bite 1d6 physical, touch 0d0 webbing |
| Base level | 2 |
| Base experience | ? |
| Speed | 15 |
| Base AC | 3 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 2 (Quite rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 150 |
| Nutritional value | 150 |
| Size | small |
| Resistances | poison resistance |
| Resistances conveyed | poison resistance (+5%) |
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A large spider:
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A large spider, s, is a type of monster that appears in EvilHack. The large spider is a small, oviparous and carnivorous arachnid that is capable of spinning webs, and drow heroes are capable of taming them with thrown food.
A large spider has a bite attack and a touch attack that spreads webbing, and possesses poison resistance.
Eating a large spider corpse or tin grants 1⁄20 (5%) additional poison resistance.
Generation
Randomly generated large spiders are always created hostile. Cave spiders grow up into large spiders, which can grow up into giant spiders.
Drow heroes that are not Convicts start the game with a tame large spider.
Webs created at level generation may have a large spider placed atop them.
Large spiders appear among the random s that are part of the first quest monster class for Tourists and make up 24⁄175 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 6⁄175 of the monsters randomly generated on the Ranger quest.
Large spiders generated at level creation are given a random item to hide under, despite being incapable of hiding.
Strategy
Large spiders are quick-moving at 15 speed and can prove persistent with their bites, but thankfully are not poisonous like giant spiders—in fact, large spiders provide a useful source of intrinsic poison resistance for a hero building up enough resistance to avoid instant death by poison later in the dungeon.
Encyclopedia entry
- See the encyclopedia entry for spider.
