Homebrew Atraxian Species Details

   A humanoid spider race that dwell in caves and on cliffs using their webs to make their homes, supporting them with wood while the webbing hardens. They use ambush tactics to surprise their prey, and then use their Veno-Bite to paralyze and kill prey. Some have different patterns on their backs that they use to blend in. They live in colonies with a king or queen leading them, They do not, however, have a specific royal blood line, as they choose their next ruler through a vote to decide who will lead for the rest of their lives. 

   The history of how the Arachnari came to be is unsure, but the best fitting theory is that a set of spider eggs came in contact with some sort of magic causing them to mutate. Artificers study them and try to learn how their anatomy works, but no results have come from these tests. The spider like species has learned how to live off of the cliffs stealing bird eggs and eating mutated bugs.

   They use their webbing in fights to restrain their enemies to get an easy Veno-Bite attack. If fighting in a cave or near a cliff they use their spider climb ability to get out of reach of melee fighters and use their webs to restrain enemies with long ranged attacks, making them harder to kill.

    Most Arachnari hunt at night to find easy food from sleeping travelers. Some colonies of Arachnari choose only a few hunters to go and find food for the entire colony. When an Arachnari dies (about 50-55 years) The entire colony mourns the loss for an entire day, then life goes on like normal for the colony, unless it was their leader. The colony then only finds food and nearly starves for a week, then they elect a new leader.

   They still have all eight of their limbs, and each can wield a weapon if it has the light property, if the weapon doesn't then the spider must hold one thing for every 2 arms, shields take up an entire side of arms, if it's a bow then they can only hold that bow and a weapon with the light property, or another bow. If they lose an arm it never comes back

 

Ability modifiers are +2 to Dex, +1 to Wis

Atraxian Traits

A spider with fangs dripping with venom ready to strike

Veno-Bite

You do a bite attack that does 1d4 piercing and 2d6 poison damage.

Spider climb

Climb on walls without an ability check

Webs

For a bonus action you can fire webs to restrain an enemy or use it to build traps for other players

ability score increase

+2 to Dex, +1 to Wis