Spider Climb. The spider 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 spider knows the exact location of any other creature in contact with the same web.
Web Walker. The spider ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing.
Spellcasting. The Aranea is a 3rd-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is INT (spell save DC 13, +5 to hit with spell attacks). The Aranea has following Wizard spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): Friends, Mage Hand, Mending, Ray of Frost
1st level (4 slots): Expeditious Retreat, Magic Missile, Shield, Sleep
2nd Level (2 slots): Hold Person, Shatter
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 9 (2d8) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If the poison damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, the target is stable but poisoned for 1 hour, even after regaining hit points, and is paralyzed while poisoned in this way.
Web (Recharge 5–6). Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 30/60 ft., one creature. Hit: The target is restrained by webbing. As an action, the restrained target can make a DC 12 Strength check, bursting the webbing on a success. The webbing can also be attacked and destroyed (AC 10; hp 5; vulnerability to fire damage; immunity to bludgeoning, poison, and psychic damage).
Description
Aranea are an intelligent giant spider race. They are as large as a small pony, and are greenish-brown in colour. An aranea can be distinguished from other giant spiders by the massive odd-shaped lump on its back that houses its large brain. Aranea are web-spinners, and their bite is poisonous.
The front limbs of an aranea are divided into flexible digits. The aranea uses these to grasp prey and manipulate simple tools. In addition, the aranea can cast spells as a 3rd level wizard and they spend much of their time in magic research.
Aranea live in dense forests or jungles, spinning their web homes high in the trees. Part of the web will be roofed with bark, leaves, and vines held together with web. In the covered part of their lairs, the aranea keep their crude tools, magic research, and crude "furniture" of web, vines, bark, and wood. They are friendly with bugbears and often hire them to guard the forest beneath their lairs.
To snare its prey, an aranea spins elaborate webs or shoots sticky strands of webbing from its abdomen. Their lairs are often festooned with web cocoons holding past victims.
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