NEW MONSTER: CADAVER SPIDER

CADAVER SPIDER

FREQUENCY: Uncommon

NO. APPEARING: 2-7

ARMOR CLASS: 7

MOVE: 9”

HIT DICE: 1 to 4 hit points

% IN LAIR: 95%

TREASURE TYPE: Nil

NO. OF ATTACKS: 1

DAMAGE/ ATTACK: 1-4

SPECIAL ATTACKS: Pain

SPECIAL DEFENSES: Nil

MAGIC RESISTANCE: Standard

SAVE: As non-intelligent monster

INTELLIGENCE: Non-

ALIGNMENT: Neutral

SIZE: S

PSIONIC ABILITY: Nil

LEVEL/ X.P. VALUE: I/ 7 + 1/hp

These foul spiders are about the size of a giant rat. They feed on corpses, burrowing into the body and consuming organs from the inside. The cadaver spider attacks with a weakly poisonous bite, causing 1-4 hit points of damage and inducing a painful response in the victim. The character must save versus poison or experience such searing pain that they will attack at -4 “to hit” for the next 2-5 hours. These creatures are immune to the paralysis of ghouls but will nonetheless flee from these carrion-eaters.