Spider Climb. The ettercap can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Web Sense. While in contact with a web, the ettercap knows the exact location of any other creature in contact with the same web.
Web Walker. The ettercap ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing.
Multiattack. The ettercap makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its claws.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage plus 4 (1d8) poison damage. The target must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (2d4 + 2) slashing damage.
Web (Recharge 5–6). Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 30/60 ft., one Large or smaller creature. Hit: The creature is restrained by webbing. As an action, the restrained creature can make a DC 11 Strength check, escaping from the webbing on a success. The effect also ends if the webbing is destroyed. The webbing has AC 10, 5 hit points, vulnerability to fire damage, and immunity to bludgeoning, poison, and psychic damage.
Some speak common but to most the language is lost
this isn't what it was in 2d edition... so much for being a 2 headed giant
wait no im thinking of ettin
The name is taken from a song Bilbo sings in The Hobbit when he's fighting the spiders. He sings "Attercop, atterop, can't catch me!" or something like that. It's an old English word for spider. For some reason or another, it mutated into Ettercap for the spider monsters in D&D.
oh thanks, but flipping through my older guide books have the ettercap looking like a troll kind of, but now it's a spider monster, it also always got along with spiders and had venom
I made this monster into a playable race: https://www.dndbeyond.com/races/969528-ettercap
Oh my God... it's a monkey spider.
This is a great boss for the beginning of the game, as mentioned in the DMG
Where does the web come out?
You don't wanna know . . .
I put this thing against my level one players.
What would this thing behave like?
I used this as a boss for my Level 1 party. A few giant wolf spiders and an ettercap and it was a really fun combat.
Did they died?
No, they won.
isn't it some spider thing?
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I found a cheap miniature of it. and its pretty accurate.
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