Base Class: Cleric
The patron deity of the drow, Lolth, is a cunning and ruthless spider godddess. Through a brutal philosophy of survival of the strongest, she pits drow society against itself that the smartest and strongest might rise to the top, earning her favor in the process. Lolth rewards those who gain her favor well, but said favor is often fleeting, passed from one pawn to the next as Lolth's schemes advance. Nonetheless, the drow priestesses worship her with the utmost fervor and wield her dark powers to crush any who would oppose the drow or Lolth's will.
Restriction: Evil Female Drow Only
Only female drow of evil alignment can take the Spider Domain as Lolth only truly grants her favor to them and are allowed to be her priestesses.
Spider Domain Spells
Your connection to this divine domain ensures you always have certain spells ready. When you reach a Cleric level specified in the Spider Domain Spells table, you thereafter always have the listed spells prepared.
| CLERIC LEVEL | PREPARED SPELLS |
|---|---|
| 1 | Poison Spray, Animal Friendship (Spiders Only), Speak with Animals (Spiders Only) |
| 3 | Spider Climb, Web |
| 5 | Conjure Animals (Spiders Only), Bestow Curse (Can Transform a Drow Into a Drider) |
| 7 | Giant Insect (Spiders Only), Polymorph (Spiders Only) |
| 9 | Cloudkill, Insect Plague (Cluster Of Spiders) |
Bonus Proficiencies
At 1st level, you gain proficiency with martial weapons and Poisoner's Kit.
Tongue and Ears of Lolth
From 1st level, you gain the ability to read, write, speak, and understand Abyssal. At 3rd level you can cast the suggestion and detect thoughts spells each once per long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait. At 11th level you know when you hear a creature speak a lie in a language you know.
Channel Divinity: Lolth’s Fickle Favor
Starting at 2nd level, as a bonus action you can use Channel Divinity to bestow the Spider Queen’s blessing on yourself or one ally you can see within 30 feet of you. The target takes 2d6 psychic damage but has advantage on the next attack roll it makes until the end of its next turn.
Channel Divinity: Summon Servant of Lolth
At 6th level, as an action you can use your Channel Divinity to attempt to summon a yochlol with a 30 percent chance of success. If the attempt fails, you take 1d10 psychic damage. Otherwise, the summoned demon appears in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of you, acts as an ally of you, and can’t summon other demons. It remains for 10 minutes, until it or you die, or until you dismiss it as an action. At 11th level the chance of success increases to 50 percent, at 17th level you always succeed and you can summon a retriever instead.
Extra Attack
Beginning at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
The number of attacks increases to three when you reach 11th level in this subclass.
Divine Strike
At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with poison — a gift from Lolth. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 poison damage to the target. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.
Matron Mother
At 17th level, you gain immunity to being Charmed, Frightened, Poisoned, and have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. At the end of another creature’s turn you can make a weapon attack, command an allied demon within 30 feet of you to use its reaction to make one attack against a target of your choice that you can see, or cast a spell of 3rd-level or lower.
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