Spider, Time
- Armor Class
- 7 [12] (s)
- Hit Dice
- 4
- Attacks
- Bite (1d6 plus poison)
- Special
- poison, time webs, temporal disappearance, darkvision
- Move
- 9 Climb 9 Web 18
- HDE/XP
- 6/400
Description
Time Spiders, also known as Temporal spiders, are about the size of a pony with an iridescent translucent crystalline black body. Some say the markings on its abdomen look like an hourglass, from which they derive the name of "time" or "temporal" spiders. They possess Darkvision out to a range of 80 feet.
Time spiders come from another place in time and space. Some say they can travel through time while others argue they come from other worlds or planes, remaining in the world in order to hunt for food.
Time spiders hunt in a passive manner, spinning strong and intricate webs. Creatures within the web will get entangled unless a saving throw roll is made; any creatures who succeed at this saving throw may move through the webbing at one-half movement rate and may not cast spells or perform normal attacks; whether other actions are possible is left to the GM to decide (speech remains possible, however). Webbed creatures can try to free themselves, but each subsequent save suffers a cumulative -1 penalty for each previous failed attempt as the character entangles further and further.
There is 5% chance each round before and after the creature's initiative that the spider disappears (where or when it goes is unknown), even after death this chance remains. When this happens any web will also disappear and those entangled must make a saving throw, with the same penalty as for breaking entanglement above, or disappear to the same unknown location.
The spider attacks with its venomous fangs and those it bites must make a saving throw against poison or suffer 1d6 points of poison damage each round until neutralized or the spider disappears.
See Also
Other creatures grouped under Spider: Spider, Giant Black Widow, Spider, Giant Bola, Spider, Giant Crab, Spider, Giant Diving Bell, Spider, Giant Ice, Spider, Giant Shrieking Tarantula, Spider, Giant Tarantula, Spider, Giant Trapdoor, Spider, Giant Water, Spider, Giant Wolf, Spider, Humming, Spider, Phase, Spider, Steel.
Source note: This creature is converted from The Basic Fantasy Field Guide of Creatures Malevolent and Benign – Omnibus Edition, 1st Edition Release 4, © 2010–2025 Chris Gonnerman, R. Kevin Smoot, James Lemon, Matt Sluis, and Contributors. The Basic Fantasy Field Guide textual material is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International; this page adapts that creature to White Box.