Homebrew Drider Species Details

Physical Description

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

Though driders are sexless, their upper half gives away the kinds of names they once had. 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.

Titles: Doomweaver, Foeslayer, Dazzlebees, Liferenderer, Moonlust

Drider Traits

Driders are drow who have failed Lolth's trials and were both blessed and cursed with a new, spider-like form. They possess the upper bodies of drow, and the lower bodies of giant spiders.

Superior Darkvision

Living in darkness has made your sight attuned to darkness allowing you to see 120 ft in darkness

Trance

You have no need for sleep you only go into a trance like sleep but still awake

Fey Ancestry

Your fey Ancestry makes resilient to being charmed and immune to be put asleep by magic.

Keen Senses

You have proficiency in the perception skill

Ability Score Increase

Your dexterity, strength, and constitution increase by 1

Languages

You know Common, Elvish, Undercommon

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.

Arachnid Build

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

Webber

You arachnid like body allows you to shoot webs

Speed

You can't be slowed by webs and your base walking and climbing speed is 30

Age

Surprisingly even though cursed they live to be 750

Alignment

Drider tend to be chaotic due to them worshipping the dark goddess Lolth 

Size

Despite being huge your size is considered medium