Driders

[Generic Villain]

Yes, I love driders. They're creepy, powerful, and fantastic bad guys. Pathfinder's new take on driders is only a further improvement, in my opinion.

But I've also always had a problem with them: I think drider should be a template. As it is, all driders have the spellcasting powers of a 6th-level wizard or cleric, but this doesn't jive with me. What about drow who were formerly other classes? What sort of driders do they become?

Now there is a drider template on WotC's site from many moons ago, which I could repost here if anyone's interested (I don't have a link, but I save that page for future use). But it leaves much to be desired. So are there any ideas for making driders of other classes? Comments/suggestions?

I think the best way would be to take a drider, strip it of spellcasting power, then add the special abilities of a 6th-level class to it. Thus, a drider rogue would have sneak attack +3D6, trapfinding, evasion, etc.

[Cpt_kirstov]

Generic Villain wrote:

Yes, I love driders. They're creepy, powerful, and fantastic bad guys. Pathfinder's new take on driders is only a further improvement, in my opinion.

But I've also always had a problem with them: I think drider should be a template. As it is, all driders have the spellcasting powers of a 6th-level wizard or cleric, but this doesn't jive with me. What about drow who were formerly other classes? What sort of driders do they become?

Now there is a drider template on WotC's site from many moons ago, which I could repost here if anyone's interested (I don't have a link, but I save that page for future use). But it leaves much to be desired. So are there any ideas for making driders of other classes? Comments/suggestions?

I think that the paizo take on this gives an explanation as to why the driders have the spellcasting. Since they were hit by the fleshwarping magic, they took some of the the left over magical essence, and harnessed the ability to cast (some) spells.

[Generic Villain]

Cpt_kirstov wrote:

I think that the paizo take on this gives an explanation as to why the driders have the spellcasting. Since they were hit by the fleshwarping magic, they took some of the the left over magical essence, and harnessed the ability to cast (some) spells.

Did you read that somewhere, or is that just your assumption? I mean it makes some amount of sense - as far as anything drider-related can. But if I recall correctly, in 2nd Edition only drow wizards or clerics were given the test of Lolth; all others were considered too inferior to even be allowed to be tested. Thus, why the 3rd Edition driders were all magic-users. But considering that *any* drow can turn drider in Pathfinder, it would make sense for there to be non-spellcasting varieties.

[Cpt_kirstov]

Generic Villain wrote:

Cpt_kirstov wrote:

I think that the paizo take on this gives an explanation as to why the driders have the spellcasting. Since they were hit by the fleshwarping magic, they took some of the the left over magical essence, and harnessed the ability to cast (some) spells.

Did you read that somewhere, or is that just your assumption? I mean it makes some amount of sense - as far as anything drider-related can. But if I recall correctly, in 2nd Edition only drow wizards or clerics were given the test of Lolth; all others were considered too inferior to even be allowed to be tested. Thus, why the 3rd Edition driders were all magic-users. But considering that *any* drow can turn drider in Pathfinder, it would make sense for there to be non-spellcasting varieties.

As far as I know, there is no offical released say on it yet.. There is a fleshwarping article in the next pathfinder though, I think, so that may explain it.