Homebrew Drider Species Details

History

Driders are drow servants of Lolth who undergo a painful process after failing one Lolth's test. Failure in the procedure usually results in death. Most are evil, but rarely, a drider may break this role. A drider appears much like a centaur, except exclusively for drow and with a spider's body rather than a horse's. Because of this, driders have a poisonous bite and can shoot webbing at their foes, as well as ignoring any movement restrictions.

While one might think this form might elevate a drow's status, this is actually a great shame, because the drow see driders as beings so absolutely weak and pathetic that Loth herself had to step down to make them better, and are usually shamed and exiled from drow society, if not killed. Driders can be found scattered across the hostile wilderness of the Underdark, surviving off what meager prey that can manage to kill. Driders can grow to despise their drow brethren for making them outcasts and try forgetting their pasts, although trusting them is still unwise since they are as likely to help you as they are to turn you in to the drow in hopes of redeeming themselves, though usually, this hope will only lead them to disappoint. Driders are rarely found outside of the Underdark, but desperation can lead to some driders living on the surface, though usually as hermits, pirates, or other nefarious professions. Like the drow most driders have evil and hatred pounded into their being, although their transformation can bestow them with humility, and in some cases, even a different perspective. Driders are a complicated and dangerous lot to be sure, but no matter what happened to them and what they've experienced, they are still drow, and one who would mess with the drow surely has a death wish.

Society

Driders mostly live independently or with others of their kind in order to be more in touch with the spiders they worship. They are rejected by the majority of drow society and either move to the outskirts of the city to act as the lowest of the drow caste system and as the first wave of defense, or take their chances as group hunters in the harsh terrain of the Underdark.

Drider Names

Before becoming a drider they will often have drow names and may keep them after their fall from Lolth's grace. Some change their names, taking on titles in their rejection of their past. 

Drider Traits

Half-spider, half-drow. These creatures are a testament to the will of the dark goddess Lolth.

Ambush Predator

Due to how you hunt you’ve gained a keen sense around and walk silently to strike your prey. You gain proficiency in perception and stealth.

Ability score increase

Your Dexterity is increased by 2 and your wisdom by 1

Age

Drider are often created while an adult, if not they mature at the same rate as humans and can live to be 750 years old.

Alignment

Driders tend to be evil or neutral, the teachings of drow made them wicked but often their transformations give them some form of humility.

Size

Driders can be 7 to almost 9 feet tall and half as wide. Your size is Medium.

Arachnid Build

You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push or drag.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet. Your speed is not reduced by webbing. And you have a climbing speed of 30 ft

Spider Climb

You have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed and you can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.

Web Walker

The drider ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing.

Superior Darkvision

You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Sunlight Sensitivity

While in sunlight, the drider has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.

Fey Ancestory

You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Innate Spellcasting

The drider's innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom . The drider can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:

At will: dancing lights
1 per long rest each: darkness, faerie fire, web

Languages

You can speak, read and write, Common, Elvish, and Undercommon