The Drow War Book Two. The Dying Of - RoseRed

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The spiders are able to open and close rifts between the
worlds. Their metallic leg blades are sharp enough to
cut through reality itself, creating holes into parallel
worlds, while their webbing has the power to bind
errant planar phenomena back into place.
A planespider looks like a large spider made from
gleaming metal and glass, with a reddish glow pulsing
at the rear of its body like that of a firefly. It speaks in
a neutral, metallic voice.
A planespider’s natural weapons count as lawful-aligned
for the purposes of overcoming damage reduction.
Anchor Web (Sp): A planespider’s webbing has an
anchoring effect, counteracting attempts to move
through the planes. As a standard action, it can throw
a sheet of webbing eight times per day. This is similar
to an attack with a net but has a maximum range of 50
feet with a range increment of ten feet, and is effective
against targets of up to Large size. The web anchors
the target in place, allowing no movement. The target
is also subjected to the effects of a dimensional lock
with a caster level of 18 th . An entangled creature can
escape with a Escape Artist check (DC 21) or burst the
web with a Strength check (DC 25). The check DCs are
Constitution-based and the Strength check DC includes
a +4 racial bonus. The web has 21 hit points, hardness
3 and damage reduction 10/chaos.
Planespiders can also create sheets of sticky webbing
from five to 60 feet square. They often place these in
front of gates they are trying to close, so as to catch
rogue creatures coming through the rift. Approaching
creatures must succeed on a Spot check (DC 20) to
notice a web, or they stumble into it and become
trapped as though by a successful web attack. Attempts
to escape or burst the webbing receive a +5 bonus if
the trapped creature has something to walk on or grab
while pulling free. Each five-foot square section has 21
hit points, hardness 3 and damage reduction 10/chaos.
A planespider can move across its own sheet web at
its climb speed and can determine the exact location of
any creature touching the web. It can cut its own web
as easily as tissue. A creature who hacks off a dead
planespider’s forelimb can use it to slice through the
webs it has created.
Cocoon (Ex): Creatures that a planespider considers
anomalous but non-threatening are tagged for removal
back to their plane of origin. The spider attempts to
cocoon them for easy transportation. A planespider
that successfully pins an opponent can attempt to
hurriedly enwrap it in a cocoon of webbing. Creatures
of Medium size or smaller are wrapped in one round.
The spider must maintain the pin for two rounds to
enwrap a Large size opponent, four rounds for a Huge
opponent and eight rounds for a Gargantuan opponent.
Partially wrapped creatures are considered entangled in
the web as if they had been hit by a web attack (see
above). Completely wrapped creatures cannot take
any actions at all. They can breathe but they cannot
move or speak and are considered helpless. Unless an
enwrapped creature has some means of taking actions
without moving at all (such as casting a stilled, silent
spell), it is at the planespider’s mercy and must wait
until the spider or some other creature frees it.
Disintegration Ray (Sp): Once the planespider has
identified a creature as both anomalous and threatening,
it attempts to ‘remove it from the matrix’ by reducing
it to dust. It can train a disintegration ray upon a target
(ranged touch attack) once per round. Targets struck by
the beam suffer the effects of a disintegrate spell (caster
level 20 th ), and are dealt 40d6 points of damage and
disintegrated completely if reduced to zero hit points
or fewer. A successful Fortitude saving throw (DC
26) reduces the damage to 5d6 points. The save DC is
Intelligence-based.
Planar Sense (Su): A planespider can automatically
sense the presence of any outsider-type creature
(extraplanar or native) within 300 feet of itself. It also
detects the use of any summoning spell or any spell that
accesses or contacts other planes, such as contact other
plane, ethereal jaunt, plane shift or teleport.
Spell-like Abilities: At will – discern lies (DC 20),
plane shift (DC 23); 3/day – dictum (DC 23), dismissal
(DC 21),greater invisibility, mass hold person (DC 23),
symbol of pain (DC 21), symbol of sleep (DC 21), true
seeing; 1/day – maze (DC 24). The planespider uses
these abilities as if it is a 20 th level wizard. The save
DCs are Intelligence-based.
Stitch Rift (Sp): As a full-round action, a planespider
can attempt to close any temporary gateway between
the planes, such as an active gate spell or a teleportation
circle. It must be adjacent to the gateway to do this
and must make a Concentration check if disturbed.
The planespider makes a dispel check as if using dispel
magic against the gateway. Its modifier for the check
is +20.
The planespider cannot close a permanent gateway or
rift but it can suppress it, weaving a wall of webbing
across it to close it off. To do this, it makes a dispel
check as above. An affected gateway is suppressed for
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