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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8467684" data-attributes="member: 57383">Well they haven't been converted to 5E to the best of my knowledge, but there are 3E stats for them Lost Empires of Faerûn plus unofficial 3E conversions scattered around the net (including the &quot;Barrel Spider&quot; in the Creature Catalogue here, if you'll excuse the plug.&nbsp; I vaguely recall stumbling up 4E stats for them somewhere, but can't recall where.Oddly, the immunity to poison only appears for&nbsp; 2E AD&amp;D Giant Solifugid, all the other editions from the 1E AD&amp;D original in Queen of the Demonweb Pits (1980) onwards had no special resistance to poison.Even more strangely, it was only the Giant Solifugid that had &quot;Poison immunity&quot; listed on its Special Defenses in The Drow of the Underdark, the Huge Solifugid* and Large Solifugid* had &quot;Nil&quot; Special Defenses meaning poison affected them normally.This might be a printing error since the Ecology entry says &quot;Solifugids are immune to all known poisons, and can eat poisonous creatures with impunity&quot;, which implies the other sizes should be immune to poison to.&nbsp; Or it might mean that the forgot to specify it's only this particular Giant Solifugid that has that immunity. The 2E Giant version is a subterranean creature, while the 1E Giant version is a desert-dweller like the other sizes, so the poison-proof one may be an Underdark-specific variant that presumably adapted to prey upon venomous and poisonous prey.*Due to the weird legacy issues of AD&amp;D monster naming, the Large Solifugid and Huge Solifugid are both Medium sized and the Giant Solifugid is Large sized.Oh, and there's also a Mystara / BECMI version of a Giant Solifugid, the Rhagodessa &quot;Spider-Kin&quot; that first appeared in the D&amp;D Expert Set (1981).&nbsp; It has an official 2E appearance in the Mystara Monstrous Compendium and 3E manifestations in Dungeon #139 and #144.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 8467684, member: 57383"] Well they haven't been converted to 5E to the best of my knowledge, but there are 3E stats for them [I]Lost Empires of Faerûn[/I] plus unofficial 3E conversions scattered around the net (including the "Barrel Spider" in the Creature Catalogue here, if you'll excuse the plug. I vaguely recall stumbling up 4E stats for them somewhere, but can't recall where. Oddly, the immunity to poison only appears for 2E AD&D Giant Solifugid, all the other editions from the 1E AD&D original in [I]Queen of the Demonweb Pits[/I] (1980) onwards had no special resistance to poison. Even more strangely, it was only the [B]Giant Solifugid[/B] that had "Poison immunity" listed on its Special Defenses in [I]The Drow of the Underdark[/I], the [B]Huge Solifugid[/B]* and [B]Large Solifugid[/B]* had "Nil" Special Defenses meaning poison affected them normally. This might be a printing error since the Ecology entry says "Solifugids are immune to all known poisons, and can eat poisonous creatures with impunity", which implies the other sizes should be immune to poison to. Or it might mean that the forgot to specify it's only this particular Giant Solifugid that has that immunity. The 2E Giant version is a subterranean creature, while the 1E Giant version is a desert-dweller like the other sizes, so the poison-proof one may be an Underdark-specific variant that presumably adapted to prey upon venomous and poisonous prey. *Due to the weird legacy issues of AD&D monster naming, the Large Solifugid and Huge Solifugid are both Medium sized and the Giant Solifugid is Large sized. Oh, and there's also a Mystara / BECMI version of a Giant Solifugid, the Rhagodessa "Spider-Kin" that first appeared in the [I]D&D Expert Set[/I] (1981). It has an official 2E appearance in the [I]Mystara Monstrous Compendium[/I] and 3E manifestations in [I]Dungeon #139[/I] and [I]#144[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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