Aranea

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Aranea (CR 12)

Ages ago, Aranea's were a species of intelligent shapeshifting spiders, raised up by a group of deities as worshipers. Over aeons of time, many such races came to be, until the God's decreed a Great Contest, to see which races would be Civilized, and which would not.

The Aranea were one of the many, many losers of that contest.

Bereft of their Gods, the Aranea have slowly degenerated over the passing millenia, until they are little more than beasts in the wilderness, with an uncanny intelligence and supernatural ability to take the shape of a humanoid. Every aranea has a humanoid form, each one as unique as a human's face.

Sadly, aranea's have lost much of their limpid, soulful selves in the process of devolution, and aranea's today are little more than monsters, practicing robbery, mayhem, extortion, and even casual murder. Aranea's can be a plague to a small settlement, and once a nest of aranea's have begun their depradations upon a settlement, the only way to solve it is to burn them out, root and branch, before they can kill or corrupt every member of a local community.

GENERAL

CR 12 Hit Dice 17

XP 19,200

N to NE, Medium, Magical Beast

Init +9; Senses none, Perception +18

DEFENSE

AC 32, touch 20, flat-footed 27 (+7 armor, +5 dex, +5 natural, +5 deflection)

hp 249

Fort +12, Ref +15, Will +12

Aura: -

SR: -

Special Defenses: -

Immunities: Immune to Aranea Poison

Weaknesses: -

OFFENSE

Speed 30 ft., Climb 40 ft

Space / Reach: 5 ft. / 5 ft.

Single Melee Bite +18 (2d8+13/x2) + Aranea Poison

Full Melee Bite +18 (2d8+13/x2), 2x Claws +18 (2d6+4/x2)

Ranged Throw Web +10 ranged touch (2d8+7/x2) + Immobilized

Special Attacks Aranea poison, Throw Web, Illusory Image

Action Points 0

STATISTICS

Str 12, Dex 16, Con 14, Int 14, Wis 14, Cha 16

Base Atk +12; CMB +19; CMD 28

Feats

Skills Stealth +20

Languages Common

SPECIAL ABILITIES

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TREASURE

sell value of approximately 8,000 gp

COMBAT TACTICS

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