Homebrew Arachmen Species Details

Physical Description

Arachmen are small, spider-like people with four spider legs protruding from their backs. These legs all start from a centralized point on their back and end in one fine point. They cannot hold anything with these limbs though they can hold themselves up and crawl on walls with them. They're covered in hair all over their bodies except for their palms and their faces. They possess 8 eyes that can range from shades of brown and black to muted blues, greens, and reds that cover the entire eyeball. Aside from these distinctions and their clawed hands and feet, they resemble a normal humanoid. They stand about 4'8-5'2 tall and use their small stature to their advantage, using their appendages to dart around battlefields and cover all manner of terrain. They typically adorn themselves in clothing made from their own silk and occasionally objects they can find or scavenge like feathers or small gemstones.

Society

Arachmen prioritize family units above all else. They care deeply for their bloodline and their relatives and will long to find a family if they lose theirs. Their social hierarchy is determined by age with the matriarch or patriarch being the eldest within their family. 

Life Cycle

All Arachmen are born in clutches held by their mothers on their backs. They carry around their clutch for ~3 months before they hatch before anywhere from 10-40 are born. Once the hatchlings emerge, they are cared for by the mother and her clan until they are 5 in which they are to leave the clan. The younglings head out into the world to explore and learn more before either starting their own home or returning to their ancestral home.  It is here where they will remain until their death at around 52-55 commonly. 

Arachmen Traits

As an Arachmen, your spider heritage allows you do more than your average human.

Ability Scores

Your dexterity is increased by 2. Your wisdom is increased by 1. Your charisma decreases by 1.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30ft.

Languages

You can speak, read and, "write" Arachin. Arachin is a language usually communicated visually through their silk. When vocals are used, it constitutes many harsh clicks and pauses. You can only speak common though you carry a heavy accent. 

Silk

At will, you can secrete a webbing from your hands. You have full control over the webbing as it is shot out but not after it has left your body. You can have 30ft of it stored inside you. Once it is used, you will begin creating more within you naturally while resting. You gain 10ft for a short rest and 30ft for a long rest. As long as you are touching your web, you will know exactly where something else is if it is also touching your web. Your webbing can be used to grapple someone and hold them still. To break free, they must beat an athletics or acrobatics check of 8 + your strength modifier + your proficiency bonus. 

Spider Senses

You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray. In direct light of the sun or other bright objects, your vision is blurred.

Spider Climb

Due to your arachnid heritage, you can stick to and climb almost any surface, even ceilings. Your climbing speed is equal to your walking speed.