Homebrew Drider Species Details
Driders possess the upper bodies of drow, and the lower bodies of giant spiders. Their drow halves retain all of their typical physical features, including black skin resembling polished obsidian, stark white or pale yellow hair, and very pale eyes that retain the same color shades as regular drow eyes would. The spider half of a drider is typically black and chitinous, propelling the creature along the ground atop eight wicked, spindly spider legs. Due to the space taken up by their spider halves, most driders tend to be up to 8 ft tall, and almost as wide.
Drider Traits
Drow and spiderAbility Score Increase
Your Strength, Constitution and Dexterity scores all increase by 1.
Sunlight Sensitivity
You have disadvantage on attack rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks. (When what you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.)
Darkvision
You can see in dim light within 60 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.
Keen Senses
You are proficient in perception.
Spider Climb
You can walk on difficult surfaces such as walls, or upside down on ceilings without needing to make an ability check, with your hands free and at full movement.
Spider Webbing
You can spend 1 hour to coat an entire room in webs, reducing the movement speed of non-spider like creatures by half. After you use your spider webbing, you can't use it again until you complete a long or short rest.
Spider Half
The drider cannot use objects that natural humanoids can below the waist (such as boots, pants, or anything like that, with the exception of custom made armor). You also cannot use mounts.
Natural Armor
When not wearing armor, your Armor Class is 11 + Dexterity modifier.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common, Elvish, and Undercommon.
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Posted May 24, 2019I really like your take on the Drider as a character race! Do you have some kind of lore for your version of the Driders, cause if you do, it’d be great to read :)
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Posted Jun 7, 2019Someone write this thing as a subrace and slap it in a content book called underdark: declassified with all underdark items, monsters, subraces, races, and a few subclasses that will add a bit of under dark to everygame like i dunno a blind striker monk subclass where you don't need to use your eyes to see you can just feel vibration smell and hear revealing invisable stuff and adding a ki feature called lights out where no one can see for an hour