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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5727060" data-attributes="member: 57383">No, it's a reference to AD&D's types of spider.In AD&D, many monstrous spiders fall into one of four varieties - large spiders (which are Small-sized and 1 HD), huge spiders (which are Medium-sized and 2 HD), giant spiders (which are Large-sized and 3 or 4 HD) and gargantuan spiders (which, miraculously, are actually Gargantuan sized and typically have 7 or 8 HD).The other monster arachnids also came in those categories - e.g. "large scorpion", "huge scorpion" and "giant scorpion" and "large pedipalp", "huge pedipalp" and "giant pedipalp". Except the huge and giant scorpions were both Man-sized, and the large and huge pedipalps were both Small-sized. Oh, and each of the pedipalps was actually a different order of arachnid - large Schizomidae, huge Amblypygi and giant Uropygi.Believe it or not, I suspect some folk found that a bit confusing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />So, a "large spider" is roughly equivalent to a Small Monstrous Spider in 3E.Note that the Rigger Spider is a "giant variety" (Large-sized with 4 HD), and the Drop Spider is a "huge variety" (Medium-sized with 2 HD).Sword Spiders are considered non-standard spiders, so didn't fall into a large/huge/giant/gargantuan category. Agreed, and I would like to allow for them advancing to a BIG size, simply because I find the idea of Giant Spider Bombs highly amusing. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />I'm wondering whether we could use some of the Explosive special attack of my <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/4543488-post10.html" target="_blank">Gumberoo</a> homebrew:Explosive (Ex): Whenever a gumberoo takes damage from fire or electricity it needs to  make a Fortitude saving throw against a DC equal to 10 plus the hit  points of fire and electrical damage inflicted. Failure results in the  gumberoo expiring in a frightful explosion that inflict 6d6 points of  bludgeoning damage and 6d6 points of fire damage to everything within a  sixty foot radius burst, with a DC 19 Reflex save to take half damage.  The saving throw is Con-dependent. </blockquote>

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