Homebrew Arachno Humanoid Species Details

Spider Origins often stem from close encounters with mystical spiders, but a variety of other supernatural occurrences, arcane contracts, and interactions with ancient beings could have bestowed this lineage upon your character. The Spider Origins table offers ideas on how your character acquired their spider-inspired abilities.

d8 Origin
1. You are the reincarnation of an ancestor who was a spider-themed hero or villain.
2. Your pact with a spider deity, fey, or spirit has granted you spider-like abilities and urges.
3. You survived a bite from a mystical spider but were forever changed by its venom.
4. A symbiotic spider lives within you, influencing your actions and desires.
5. Tragedy halted your metamorphosis into a full spider-like creature.
6. You are a mortal infused with the essence of a spider-like entity, feeding its hunger sustains your power.
7. One of your parents was a spider-like creature from another plane of existence.
8. A transformative experiment altered your physiology, leaving you dependent on others for spider-like traits and nourishment.

Arachno Humanoid Traits

Within the tapestry of fate, the Spiderling lineage is woven with threads of ancient pacts, mystical encounters, and transformative experiments. Those who bear this lineage carry within them the legacy of spiders, embodying their agility, keen senses, and uncanny abilities.

Spider Climb

You have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed. In addition, at 3rd level, you can move up, down, and across vertical surfaces and upside down along ceilings, while leaving your hands free.

Spider Sense

You are immune to the surprised condition.

Standing Leap

Your long jump is up to 25 feet and your high jump is up to 15 feet, with or without a running start.