Aranea
Aranea
Armor Class: 7
Hit Dice: 3**
Move: 60’ (20’)
In web: 120’ (40’)
Attacks: 1
Damage: 1-6 + poison
No. Appearing: 1-3 (1-6)
Save As: Magic-user: 3
Morale: 7
Treasure Type: D
Alignment: Chaotic
The aranea are an intelligent giant spider
race. They are as large as small ponies, and
are greenish-brown in color. An aranea is
distinguishable from other giant spiders by
the massive odd-shaped lump on its back
that houses its large brain. Aranea are webspinners,
and their bite is poisonous.
The front limbs of an aranea are
divided into flexible digits. The aranea
uses these to grasp prey and manipulate
simple tools. In addition, the aranea can
cast spells as a 3rd level magic-user (two 1st
level spells and one 2nd level spell), and
they spend much of their time researching
magic.
Aranea live in dense forests or jungles,
spinning their web homes high in the trees.
Part of each web is roofed with bark, leaves,
and vines held together with webbing. In
the covered part of their lairs, the aranea
keep their crude tools, magic research, and
crude “furniture” of web, vines, bark, and
wood.
Aranea are the traditional enemies of
the phanaton, and attack them on sight.
They are friendly with bugbears and often
hire them to guard the forest beneath their
lairs.