The Sinister Spider
🕑 Added 2023-01-31 09:47:30 +0000 UTC⚠ Arachnophobia warning. Spiders below! Please don't continue unless you are comfortable seeing them. :)
A horrifying arachnid large enough to threaten an entire town. What hope could five adventurers have?
You can thank Connor Johnston for this fresh horror! They modeled this creature after my old Colossal Crab and, like it, this comes with its own battle map: the Sinister Woodland. There you will find map variants with an open trapdoor and reaching webs.

Our spider also comes in two varieties: trapdoor and widow. They might be friends, but perhaps they are old rivals lording over two extremities of the woods? They might even hire adventurers in an attempt to consolidate the forest, appearing as a silver-tongued telepathic message urging them to slay the "terrible spider over yonder."

Whatever unsettling idea you come up with, we'd love to hear them in the comments! Have fun.
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Ross from 2-Minute Tabletop
UPDATE: I've just uploaded Connor's wonderful assets to the Silver and Gold rewards, which you can preview above! Truly a wonderful batch of encounter assets not to be missed. :)
Ross from 2-Minute Tabletop
It's like it was meant to be :o
Taylor Young
The timing on this one! My players just entered a spider infedted forest and long abandoned they reside in, and I felt the matriarch token was too boring xD