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Drider
The dry rasping of spidery legs brings this hideous monstrosity into view—a nightmarish, centaurian fusion of drow and spider.
Created from the body of a drow, warped and mutated through special poisons and elixirs to take on the characteristics of a Giant Spider, the Drider is a dangerous Creature.
Driders are sexually dimorphic. A female drider's lower spider body is sleek and graceful, often similar to a black widow's body, while its upper drow torso retains its alluring curves and beautiful face (with the exception of sharp, poisonous fangs). A male drider's lower body is bulky like a tarantula, while its upper body is wiry and bears a hideous face more spider than drow, complete with fanged mandibles.
Special Abilities
Poison (Ex) Bite—injury; Save Fort DC 18; Frequency 1/round for 6 rounds; Effect 1d2 Str; Cure 1 save. The save DC is Constitution-based.
Spells A Drider casts spells as a 6th-level Cleric, Sorcerer, or Wizard, but does not gain any other class abilities.
Undersized Weapons (Ex) Although a Drider is Large, its upper torso is the same size as that of a Medium humanoid's upper torso. As a result, it wields Weapons as if it were one size category smaller than its actual size (Medium for most driders).