Spider (5e)

Spider exists in other D&D editions see:

Spider (disambiguation).

 5th edition Varied 
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Spider Overview 

  

Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropod s that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs able to inject venom . They are the largest order of arachnid s… Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except for Antarctica , and have become established in nearly every habitat …

Anatomically, spiders differ from other arthropods in that the usual body segments are fused into two tagmata , the cephalothorax and abdomen , and joined by a small, cylindrical pedicel . Unlike insect s, spiders do not have antennae . In all except the most primitive group, the Mesothelae , spiders have the most centralized nervous systems of all arthropods, as all their ganglia are fused into one mass in the cephalothorax. Unlike most arthropods, spiders have no extensor muscles in their limbs and instead extend them by hydraulic pressure.

Their abdomens bear appendages that have been modified into spinneret s that extrude silk from up to six types of glands. Spider web s vary widely in size, shape and the amount of sticky thread used. It now appears that the spiral orb web may be one of the earliest forms, and spiders that produce tangled cobwebs are more abundant and diverse than orb-web spider s.

List of Spiders

(13 official and unofficial Spiders)

Name	Type	Subtype	Size	HP	CR (XP)	Alignment	Habitat	Source
Swarm of Spiders	Swarm	Beast, Insect, Spider	Medium	22	1/2 (100)	Unaligned	Desert, Forest, Grassland, Hill, Swamp, Underdark, Underground, Urban	"Varied"
Roil (Individual)	Monstrosity	Spider, Phase Spider	Large	32	3 (700)	Unaligned	Desert, Forest, Grassland, Hill, Underdark, Underground, Urban	"Varied"
Spider Overview	Overview	Beast, Spider					Arctic, Coastal, Desert, Forest, Grassland, Hill, Mountain, Swamp, Underdark, Underground, Urban	"Varied"
Spider	Beast	Spider	Tiny	1	0 (10)	Unaligned	Arctic, Coastal, Desert, Forest, Grassland, Hill, Mountain, Swamp, Underdark, Underground, Urban	SRD5
Deep Spider	Beast	Spider, Sword Spider	Huge	95	7 (2,900)	Unaligned		Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy
Giant Spider	Beast	Spider	Large	26	1 (200)	Unaligned	Desert, Forest, Swamp, Underdark, Underground, Urban	SRD5
Mammoth Spider	Beast	Spider	Huge	95	5 (1,800)	Unaligned		Rlyehable
Phase Spider	Monstrosity	Spider, Phase Spider	Large	32	3 (700)	Unaligned	Desert, Forest, Grassland, Hill, Underdark, Underground, Urban	SRD5
Sword Spider	Beast	Spider, Sword Spider	Large	45	3 (700)	Unaligned		Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy
Giant Wolf Spider	Beast	Spider	Medium	11	1/4 (50)	Unaligned	Coastal, Desert, Forest, Grassland, Hill	SRD5
Steeder Overview	Overview	Beast, Steeder, Spider						Out of the Abyss
Female Steeder	Beast	Steeder, Spider	Large	30	1 (200)	Unaligned	Underdark, Underground	Out of the Abyss
Male Steeder	Monstrosity	Spider, Steeder	Medium	13	1/4 (50)	Unaligned	Underdark, Underground	Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

Sources and Notes

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