Spider, Huge

Family: Spider

Huge monstrosity, neutral evil

Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Hit Points 60 (8d12 + 8)
Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft.

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
19 (+4)	17 (+3)	12 (+1)	3 (-4)	11 (+0)	2 (-4)

Skills Perception +3, Stealth +6
Senses blindsight 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13
Languages Common
Challenge 7 (2,900 XP)

SPECIAL TRAITS

• Beheadable. Whenever the huge spider takes at least 15 slashing damage at one time, roll a d20 to determine what else happens to it. On a 19-20, the spider is decapitated and dies.

ACTIONS

• Multiattack. The huge spider makes three attacks, two with its claws and one with its bite.
• Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (3d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled, escape DC 15. The crab has two claws, each of which can grapple only one target.
• Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 20 (3d10 + 4) piercing damage plus 11 (2d10) poison damage. The target must make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw, taking the poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If the poison damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, the target is stable but poisoned for 1 hour, even after regaining hit points, and is paralyzed while poisoned in this way.

ABOUT

This is a most tremendous monster, like a great spider, with a body as big as an elephant and legs as long as a tree trunk. It has eight of these long legs, each covered with coarse black hair. As the monster crawls through the forest it seizes an animal with a leg and drags it to its mouth, where it eats it as a spider does a fly. It has a great mouth, with a row of sharp teeth a foot long; but its head is joined to the pudgy body by a neck as slender as a wasp’s waist.

Giant spiders are known throughout Faerie, but their king is truly massive. This spider, colloquially known as the Spider King, strode through the forests of beasts and snacked on them like treats. It is so large in fact that few creatures can overcome it. The last Spider King was taken out by the Cowardly Lion, who ambushed the spider while it slept.