Homebrew Spiderkin Species Details

The Spider People

A humanoid torso on a spider abdomen, three pairs of pupil-less eyes,  skin of exotic color patterns, and long black hair tied in an intricate pattern. Those are the most remarkable characteristics of the Spiderkind. Often confused with the evil Driders, the Spider people do suffer from their quite monstrous appearance and their affiliations with the goddess Lolth.

Spiderkind are indeed children of Lolth, but they chose to renounce their godly mother and fled to the material plane, in which they will hide in caves, sometimes in the Underdark, and very rarely in a community that accept them despite their monstrous origin. This latter case is even more rare due to the fact that they tend to not feel at ease amongst non-spider-like creatures.

Unless they expect regular visitors, their home is generally completely webbed-up, in which they can circulate at ease.

Hatred for the Queen of Spiders

Spiderkind profoundly hate their mother. Nobody, not even Lolth herself, really knows where that visceral hatred comes from. Some speculate that another god instilled this ressentment in the Spiderkind, while others pretend that the Queen of Spiders just made a mistake. In the end, the Spider People hate Lolth and Drows and will prove to be quite violent towards anybody comparing them to the dark elves and their common mother.

Spiderkind Names

Even though most of the Spider-people show feminine traits, Spiderkind do not give any importance to gender, and tend to have neutral names. Those names are mostly elven, and some can give themselves a nickname, or if they live in a community they would generally adopt a local name to help them fit in.

Spiderkin Traits

As a half-spider-humanoid creature, you gain access to some abilities that can be considered game-breaking in an early stage of the game : ie. climbing on walls and ceiling without penalty. I encourage you to speak with your GM about this choice of race to see if it fits their campaign

Alignment

They fled the Spider Queen because of her cruelty, thus they tend towards Good. But they inherited from Lolth a tendency to no abide by the rules, thus being generally Chaotic.

Ability Score Increase

Your Wisdom score increases by 2, and your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Spider Senses

They can perfectly see in low light up to 60 ft., and can discern shapes in darkness. Moreover, they can perceive anything touching a spider web that they can touch up to 120ft. from them.

Size

Spiderkin can measure from 5 feet to 6 or 7 feet.

Movement

The Spider People are known to be able to walk on walls, ceilings, and roofs with the same ease a human walks on land. And they do not seem to suffer from being head down for a long period of time, too.

Moreover, they are not slowed on spider-web-like surfaces.

Webbing

You can produce and web a place like a traditional spider would do.

In addition at level 3, you can cast Web once per day without consuming a spell slot. Web is considered to be always prepared.

Spider Built

You can be mounted by a creature at least one size smaller than you. In such a situation, you continue to act independently, not as a controlled mount.

Language

You know common and 1 bonus Language