Homebrew Aranea Species Details

Araneas are reclusive shape-shifters. An aranea’s natural form resembles a bulky, humpbacked spider with two short arms beneath its head. An aranea can shape-shift into a humanoid form or into a multiarmed humanoid-spider hybrid. Araneas live in insular communities where they create beautiful objects that express their artistry and are sometimes traded to other communities. Most araneas prefer to avoid combat, befuddling their foes long enough to skitter to safety.

Aranea Traits

These are your traits as an Aranea.

Bite

(Hybrid or Spider Form Only). You have venomous fangs that you can use to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with them, the strike deals 1d6 + your Dexterity modifier Piercing damage, plus 1d4 Poison damage.

Spider Climb

(Hybrid or Spider Form Only). You can climb difficult surfaces, including along ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.

Shape-Shift

As a bonus action, you shape-shift into a humanoid form, into a humanoid-spider hybrid form, or back into your true spider form. Your game statistics are the same in each form, except where noted. Any equipment you are wearing or carrying isn’t transformed.

Spinneret

(Hybrid or Spider Form Only). You can magically produce sticky, silken spider webs from your hands as an Action. This web dissolves after 1 minute. When you create these webs, as a Bonus Action, you can use them to do one of the following:

Pull Yourself. You project a line of web at a point you can see within 30 feet, pulling yourself to that point in a straight line without provoking Opportunity Attacks. You can use this benefit as a Reaction when you fall to pull yourself up to half your movement speed in any direction.

Manipulate Objects. You can use a line of web to manipulate an object that isn’t being worn or carried within 30 feet. For example, you can pull an object to your hand, close a door, or snatch a Small or smaller object weighing less than 15 pounds.

Create Rope. You create a 60-foot-long Rope of web and anchor it to a point you choose.

Web Spell. You cast Web without a spell slot as a part of the Bonus Action used for this feature (DC equals 8 plus your Dexterity modifier and Proficiency Bonus). When you cast it using this feature, the webs fill a 5-foot Cube, and the spell’s duration becomes 1 minute. You can cast this spell using this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain one expended use when you finish a Short Rest, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

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