Drider (5e Race)

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Drider

“	I failed the Spider Queen once. Never again.	”
—Pellanistra, Drider Guardian of the Underpits

A curse more than a blessing, drow who fail the spider goddess Lolth are warped into horrible spider-taur beings known as driders. Their minds are typically warped and suppressed into being slaves to the whims of the evil deity. But once in a while, one escapes its instinctual control. Some slip away, becoming hateful solitary beings while others continue their service out of a sense of shame in their initial failure. And of course they were wracked by the infernal desire to hunt and prey on others like the spiders they resembled.

Description

Driders are drow from the waist up, and giant monstrous spiders from the waist down. They kept many of their drow-like traits, but are considered a separate species. They have a thirst for blood and prefer to liquify or mash their prey for easier consumption.

Height & Weight
Species	Base Height	Height Mod	Base Weight	Weight Mod	Average
Drider	6'10"	+2d12	750 lbs.	x (5d8) lbs.	7'5", 900 lbs

Drider Psychology

While driders may have once been drow, they have no love for their kin. If anything the murderous self-sabotaging nature of the drow are only amplified by the shame and feral hunger they experience. It is said that driders who escape Lolth's control are weakened, lesser kin compared to the monster version of their kind.

Territories

Driders are usually enslaved to serve drow as guardians or warriors, but those which escape flee to far corners of the world to set up lairs to hunt on the weak and unlucky.

Drider Adventurers

A drider who has escaped the wroth of the underdark may find themselves working with other adventurers. If they can suppress their feral natures and untrustworthy behavior, co-operation is possible. After all, allies are useful, duped or not.

Drider Names

Driders are drow and retain their names, though most lose their family names out of shame.

Drider Traits

Drider

Creature Type. Humanoid

Ability Score Increase. Increase one ability score by 2 and another one by 1, or increase three different ability scores by 1.  

Age. 16-90

Alignment. Drider are almost always evil.

Size. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base speed is 30 feet. You have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.  

Darkvision: Your darkvision has a range of 120 feet, instead of 60. You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. 

Monstrosity. Your creature type is monstrosity, rather than humanoid. 

Arachnid Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push or drag. 

Curse of Lolth. Elves have advantage on attack rolls against you. 

Fey Ancestry. The drider has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put the drider to sleep. 

Sunlight Sensitivity. You have disadvantage on attack rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of the attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight. 

Web Walker. The drider ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, Elvish, and Undercommon

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