Giant Spider

Giant Spider
Record
Type	Monster
Gender	Neither
Race	Spider
Class	Giant spider
Alignment	LG NG CG LN TN CN LE NE CE
Involvement
Allegiance	Enemy
Area	see Locations
Ability scores
Level	4
Hit points	35
XP value	450
Str	14
Str	14
Dex	9
Dex	9
Con	9
Con	9
Int	9
Int	9
Wis	9
Wis	9
Cha	9
Cha	9
Total scores	59
Morale	10
Break	5
Recovery	30
Combat basics
Full damage	1d8 (piercing) Poison effect: 2 damage / s Negate: Save vs Death Lasts 37 Seconds
Natural AC	4
Base THAC0	13
Base APR	1
Saving throws
Dth	9
Wand	10
Poly	9
Brth	10
Spell	10
Special
Effects	Immune to effect: Paralyze Baldur's Gate I & II Classic This icon indicates content from all original Baldur's Gate games, extensions included. Webbed Baldur's Gate II Classic & Enhanced This icon indicates content from all games of the 2nd Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits II.
AI scripts
Race	WTASIGHT
Inventory
Gold	0
Items	None
Exclusive equipment	Amulet Weapon
Reputation impact if
Killed	None
Technical information
Creature codes	SPIDGI Baldur's Gate I Classic & Enhanced This icon indicates content from all games of the 1st Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits. BDHELP01 Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear (2016) This icon indicates content from the Siege of Dragonspear campaign of the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition. BDSPIDGI Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear (2016) This icon indicates content from the Siege of Dragonspear campaign of the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition. BPSPID02 Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition (2012) This icon indicates content from the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition campaign. RSSPIDGI Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition (2012) This icon indicates content from the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition campaign. SPIDGISU (Summoned) Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition (2012) This icon indicates content from the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition campaign.Baldur's Gate II Classic & Enhanced This icon indicates content from all games of the 2nd Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits II. SPIDGI01 Baldur's Gate II Classic & Enhanced This icon indicates content from all games of the 2nd Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits II. SPSPID05 Baldur's Gate II Classic & Enhanced This icon indicates content from all games of the 2nd Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits II. UDSPID01 (Underdark) Baldur's Gate II Classic & Enhanced This icon indicates content from all games of the 2nd Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits II. UDSPID02 (Underdark) Baldur's Gate II Classic & Enhanced This icon indicates content from all games of the 2nd Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits II. UDSPID03 (Underdark) Baldur's Gate II Classic & Enhanced This icon indicates content from all games of the 2nd Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits II. UDSPID04 (Underdark) Baldur's Gate II Classic & Enhanced This icon indicates content from all games of the 2nd Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits II. UDSPID05 (Underdark) Baldur's Gate II Classic & Enhanced This icon indicates content from all games of the 2nd Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits II. UDSPID06 (Underdark) Baldur's Gate II Classic & Enhanced This icon indicates content from all games of the 2nd Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits II. UDSPID07 (Underdark) Baldur's Gate II Classic & Enhanced This icon indicates content from all games of the 2nd Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits II. UDSPID08 (Underdark) Baldur's Gate II Classic & Enhanced This icon indicates content from all games of the 2nd Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits II.

The Giant Spider is the strongest common variety of Spiders, mostly encountered during Baldur's Gate with only a few encounters during Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.

Description

They are almost always encountered within the depths of a forest, particularly during waylaid encounters between such areas, and are distinguishable from their brethren by way of a green body with grey legs - pointedly different from the more powerful Phase Spider.

Gameplay

Like most spiders, they can poison their enemies and are immune to Web. They are essentially a step up from the Huge Spider, while not yet evolving any special abilities often found among the higher-tiered spiders. They also have a relatively low mobs-per-spawn rate, with a high level party only ever encountering as many as two, comparable in this regard to the Cave Bear or Wraith Spider while pointedly being worth significantly less experience than either.

Summoned

Giant spiders can be summoned by a 7th or 8th level Mage casting the 4th level Wizard spell Spider Spawn.

Locations

Baldur's Gate

• Fourth Cloakwood
• High Hedge
• Peldvale
• Second Cloakwood
• Spider Wood

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

• Druid Grove
• Lower Tombs
• Pai'Na's Lair
• Underdark
• Ust Natha

Baldur's Gate II Enhanced Edition: Shadows of Amn

• Tomb of the Unproved

Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal

• Sendai's Enclave

Trivia

• The offical website for the original game, now archived, had – in addition to some combat-related statistics – the following information about giant spiders:

  Spiders are aggressive predators, dwelling both above and below ground. They have eight legs and eight eyes with bulbous abdomens and thin sleek legs.

  The size was given as 8 to 12 feet in diameter.

Visuals

GIFs

Promotional animation

Gallery

Promotional screenshot

External links

• Giant spider on the Forgotten Realms Wiki, a wiki for the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Forgotten Realms.