Real life spider for D20 campaign

[PallidPatience]

Eh. I think spiders are bloody awesome. Especially freaky spiders like those.

 

[DonaldRumsfeldsTofu]

I agree. Spiders are welcome in my house any time, even nasty pseudo-fictional Middle Eastern ones.

 

[woodelf]

Aren't spiders only supposed to have 8 legs?

heh. Like most things that people think are creepy crawly, I think it's kinda cute. Bet it would keep the ant population in my apartment down.

You know, off the top of my head, only thing that's small enough to have running around your apartment and eats ants that i can think of is other ants. Lots of birds, rodents, anteaters, etc., that eat ants, but they're all big enough to be pets in their own rights. I don't think spiders, ladybugs, mantises, centipedes, or any of the other arthropod predators regularly dine on ant. Though maybe centipedes do.

 

[Cymex666]

I love spiders, they don't bother me at all. What gives me the willies are cockroaches

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Didn't the 1E MMII have solifugids listed? Dig it up and introduce camel spiders to your game..

 

[Shag]

2 pages into the thread and still no stat block?
You guys are slipping...

 

[TheFan]

2 pages into the thread and still no stat block?
You guys are slipping...

Ask and ye shall recieve (real-life version):

Camel Spider
Diminutive vermin
HD: 1/2d8 (2 hp)
Initiative: +3
Speed: 20 ft (4 squares)
Armor class: 16 (+4 size, +3 dex)
Base attack/grapple: 0/-17
Attack: Bite +6 melee (1d3-5 18-20 x3)
Full attack: Bite +6 melee (1d3-5 18-20 x3)
Special attacks: Augmented critical, vorpal bite
Special qualities: Scent, vermin traits
Saves: Fort +2, ref +3, will +0
Abilities: str 1, dex 16, con 10, int --, wis 10, cha 2
skills: Jump, hide, spot (don't want to calculate it all right now)
Feats: Weapon Finesse, Run
Environment: Warm desert
Organization: Solitary or pair
Challenge Rating: 1/8
Advancement: 1 HD (tiny)

Combat:
Despite their hideous appearance camel spiders are not actually dangerous. They are not even venemous, relying instead on their powerful jaws to subdue prey. Even then, these jaws are likely to not be fatal to an adult human.

Augmented critical (ex): A camel spider's bite is exceptionally powerful, threatening a critical hit on an 18-20 and doing x3 damage. Still, unless magic is involved this is not likely to do much damage to a human.
Vorpal bite (ex): On a confirmed natural 20 against an opponent of the camel spider's size or smaller, the spider's powerful jaws decapitate its opponent. This is useless against opponents larger than the spider.

Now, not overly dangerous really. Then again, if someone were to use Vermin Growth or something...you could have a VERY dangerous creature.

 

[Calico_Jack73]

When I was over in Saudi we took a bucket, covered the bottom of it in sand and put a scorpion and a camel spider in it to watch them fight. The spider usually won. Those things were creepy though and damn fast.

 

[Henry]

Everyone have a REAL close look at the underbelly of the second spider. Those eight little white things may be egg sacs of some type, but they look suspiciously like those little white plastic tags that vendors staple into stuffed animals and plastic fake animals in order to put a price tag on them...

Soldiers say these spiders aren't bad cooked over a campfire with BBQ sauce.

I'm betting this is the one part of the superstition that's true. I've known national guard military guys who would try darn near anything, just to say they've done it once.

 

[Calico_Jack73]

Everyone have a REAL close look at the underbelly of the second spider. Those eight little white things may be egg sacs of some type, but they look suspiciously like those little white plastic tags that vendors staple into stuffed animals and plastic fake animals in order to put a price tag on them...

I can honestly say that these spiders do exist. I watched one of my troops come running from the Cadillac (large porta-can trailer) in the middle of the night with one of these things chasing him.