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hey guys.
I want to share a magical story with you: a long long time ago, a little child whov'e herd for the first time about Loleth, the spider queen, mistress of the Drow, lady of the demonweb had a spark of inspartion. he set down by his computer and worte a monster he designd himself- hes very first one. half a decade later, that same boy (yours sincerly), now a nearlt grown kid, havr read the wonderfull instalment of SDAP, "the armaggedon echo." he thought it was great, but it botherd him that there was nearly nothing to fight execpt drow and classic spider beasties. so he now considers changing things.
back to the present writing grammer, I thought to maybe pot one or two of the creatures you will read about in a moment, instead of, say, the Drider in the library or Kardrogas the drow barbarian. so... what say you, fellow Paizonins?
Servants of Loleth
Loleth is not called the weaver of souls for nothing. Lurking in her layer of hell, the goddess spins her web of evil, capturing the damned souls of the vilest Drow that died in her service and transforming them into horrible monstrosities. Those mutated souls are simply called The Servants of Loleth, a name that suits them perfectly since they barely ever leave her home plain in hell, unless they receive a direct order from her or are summoned by a mortal worshipper. They serve their mistress as both guardians and citizens, and most of the residents under her domain are Servants.
The servants bare a general resemblance to their mortal forms, mainly the fact that they are still humanoid in shape. Their average height is 4.5 meters (about 15 feet), and their skin is very soft, pale and vulnerable. A huge variety of forms exist, but every one of the servants has some sort of arachnid body features, such as a pair of extra spidery limbs, pincers, or even an inner body system that enables them to spit or weave spider webs. They typically weigh 200 pounds.
Ecology:
The servants of Loleth are crated by the Spider goddess herself, their souls like flies captured in a spider web. Usually they are Drow or other mortal worshippers, but they are always intelligent humanoids. In extremely rare occasions, Loleth manages to capture the unaware soul of an innocent, and she considers this to be the greatest pleasure of all.
During the transformations, the Servants loss all of their former selves and become only another nameless creation of Loleth. They are utterly evil and merciless, and will not be stopped by anything until they fulfill their duty.
Society
The Servants tend to be very unsociable, and they interact with each other only during ritualistic ceremonies. Even if a band of them were sent together to achieve a single, common goal, they will not cooperate unless it is undeniably necessary. They roan the realms of Loleth with no clear aim until they receive a mission. The Servants cannot talk.
Servants of Loleth
Large outsider (evil)
HD: 6d8+12 (39 HP)
Initiative: + 7 (+3 DEX, +4 Improved Initiative)
BAB: +6
Base speed: 12 Meters (40 ft)
AC: 17 (+3 DEX, -2 size, +6 Loleth's Grace [see ability description text])
Attacks: +5\+1 long sword, +5\+1 short sword
Damage: long sword (1d8+3), short sword (1d6+3)
Special attacks: Loleth's smite, constricting spider webs, breathe weapon and poison.
Special quantities: damage redaction 10\magic or good, fast healing 3, Loleth's grace, spider's organs, outsider's traits.
Saves: +9 will +9 reflex and +9 fortitude.
Abilities: strength 16, dexterity 17, fortitude 15, wisdom 15, intelligence 14, charisma 15
Skills: climb 12 (+ 15), balance 12 (+15), handle animal 12 (+14), jump 12 (+15), escape art 12 (+15), acrobatics 10 (+13), track 10 (+12), knowledge [Loleth] 10 (+12)
Feats: Improved int., two weapon fighting, master two weapon fighting
Challenge rating: 8
Advancement: character level (mainly cleric)
Ability description
Loleth's grace:
Loleth is known as a very generous goddess-and she grants her followers appropriate gifts so that they could forefill her assignments. All Servants are granted a +6 deflection bonus to their AC's. physically, there appears to be green light surrounding them like an aura, blocking blows in mid-air.
Constricting webs:
If there is enough webs in a 100 ft radios around the servant (ten square feet would be sufficient for medium creatures, twice for large, half for small, etc.), he can manipulate them in the air as though he had telekinesis with no weight limits and throw them at foes as a full round action. They often use this ability to wrap the webs around them and squeeze hard to constrict the target. The victim of this power must make a grapple check against the Servant's grapple bonus + 10 (normally +14 total) or suffer 6d6 crushing damage. If the victim wins by 5 or less he only suffer half of the damage. If more than 5, he breaks free of the hold altogether.
Breath weapon:
The servant's breath weapon is a very unique one. Once per 1d4 rounds, he may use it as a 20 ft. cone. In the area, tiny spiders are spat from the creatures mouth to attack anything in their path, and they receive an immediate attack of opportunity. The Servant can choose between breathing out 3d10 tiny spiders, 1d6 small ones or 1 medium spider. Later, the spiders join battle as normal, but they typically die within 24 hours of their exposure to the world.
Poison:
Every neutral attack delivered by the Servant also injects poison into the victim (vie tiny tendril- like spikes on their bodies-see Spiderman the movie for a clearer description). Fortitude save DC 20, primary damage 1d6 strength, secondary 1d4 constitution.
Spider organs:
Each Servant has two of the following. Roll a d6 or decide on your own.
1) Rough fur: the Servant is covered with a rough fur like a spider. It has +2 natural AC.
2) Pincers: spider pincers erupting from the edges of the mouth. Bite damage 1d8+3, and poison (see above).
3) Spider Limbs: from it's upper back, the Servant has a pair of etched spider legs. He cannot use them to hold anything, but he gains two slam attacks per round, for 1d8+3 plus poison, that replace his normal attacks. They (the limbs) have a range of 10 ft.
4) Web spatter: this body part replaces the normal breat weapon. Once every 1d4 rounds, the servant can spit a small globe of webs that can fly up to a range of 30 ft. (treat as a grenade like weapon) and then explode on an AOE of a 10 ft radius. It acts as a spider web spell cast by an 8th level cleric (save DC 21).
5) Web weaver: since this takes lots of time to activate, the ability is not useful during combat. The servant can slowly produce and weave webs from his hands, creating a total of a 10X10 feet large web of any shape for a complete hour of work.
6) Extra eyes: the servant has an all around vision (he can't be sneak attacked or flanked), and has true sight.
Are you sure Loleth is a completely original creation?I'm not perfactly sure I understood you correctly... what I created is the creature called "Servant of Loleth", an outsider that serve her. if you are implieng that something really similer was done before, could you direct me to it?
I think he is commenting on Lloth the spider queen of standard D&D and what you present here as Loleth queen of spiders.... As for servants Lloth has the yochlol, or handmaidens as well as the proxies of Lloth and myrlochar (big ugly outsider spiders). But no actual "servants of Lloth" the way you describe.
I think he is commenting on Lloth the spider queen of standard D&D and what you present here as Loleth queen of spiders.... As for servants Lloth has the yochlol, or handmaidens as well as the proxies of Lloth and myrlochar (big ugly outsider spiders). But no actual "servants of Lloth" the way you describe.Are you sure Loleth is a completely original creation?I'm not perfactly sure I understood you correctly... what I created is the creature called "Servant of Loleth", an outsider that serve her. if you are implieng that something really similer was done before, could you direct me to it?
I don't think he was trying to claim he created Loleth. He just spelled the name incorrectly.
He's just trying to show off a nifty beast inspired by how cool Lolth is. That's my read on things.|
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I think he is commenting on Lloth the spider queen of standard D&D and what you present here as Loleth queen of spiders.... As for servants Lloth has the yochlol, or handmaidens as well as the proxies of Lloth and myrlochar (big ugly outsider spiders). But no actual "servants of Lloth" the way you describe.Are you sure Loleth is a completely original creation?I'm not perfactly sure I understood you correctly... what I created is the creature called "Servant of Loleth", an outsider that serve her. if you are implieng that something really similer was done before, could you direct me to it?I don't think he was trying to claim he created Loleth. He just spelled the name incorrectly.
He's just trying to show off a nifty beast inspired by how cool Lolth is. That's my read on things.
first, indeed, I just spelled the name incorrectly.
second... I must say I'm surprised by the amount of nagetive criticizm shown here. as I wrote in my original post, I wrote this creature when I was twelve years old, and I never claimed it to be original. what I wanted was to know if there is any reason not to use it in AE, and if there was something unbalanced or incorrect in the stat block. since none of you seem to be willing to answer, you could at least be less offensive...
OK, let's see here...
For starters, the AC is one point too low--despite being Large, it has a -2 size penalty to AC, as if it were Huge.
Its attack bonus should be +6/+1 with both weapons (+6 BAB, +3 Str, -2 TWF, -1 size), although masterwork weapons could bump that up by another 1.
The weapon in the Servant of Lolth's off-hand should do half of its Str bonus in damage, +1 rather than +3. On the bright side, since it's Large, it should be wielding Large weapons, which will do more damage (longsword should do 2d6, shortsword 1d8).
I'm not sure where you're getting the numbers for its saving throws. They should be Base Save +5, plus whatever its relevant ability modifier is. By my calculations, it should have Fortitude +7, Reflex +8, Will +7.
By my eyeballing, the CR on this guy is way too high. It's got low hp, not too great of an AC (although it does have both fast healing and DR), and a mediocre attack bonus. I'd call this CR 5-6 rather than 8. As such, if you were to use it to replace a drider or the pain-eater barbarian, use two of them.
No anger here just clearing up that you and he where both talking about the same spider queen, and as far as I knew no creature like that had existed... and I listed the ones that did. If that came off as negative I'm sorry, that's not in any way what I meant, I was just trying to help, and point out that yes your idea was new :P
Are you sure Loleth is a completely original creation?
The above quote did seem to imply some negative connotations.
However, it's cleared up, no harm, no foul. I found the suggestions on the beasty to be helpful, and said beasty is neat. Can you really have too many Abyss-spawned spider monsters dedicated to Lolth? I've always thought the Handmaidens to be a little off the theme, myself.|
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Yeah, sorry for mistaking you guys. It's just that I posted in one of those days when evreyone seems to be against you.
thanks for the advice-I will edit the Servant as soon as I can free enough time for it.
P.S, about the CR- 5 seems to low, but on the other hand, 8 is indeed to high. I think I will edjust them to 6 or boost them up a little to seven.