# Spider, Jade >[!rimg]+ > ![[Placeholder2.png]] <div class="grid-container"><div class="MON">Jade Spider</div> <div class="CR">CR 14 (38,400 XP)</div> <div class="SOU">City of the Spider Queen, Web</div> <div class="SYS">Dungeons & Dragons 3.5</div></div> N Gargantuan Construct **Init** +1 **Senses** darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, see invisibility; **Perception** +0 #### defense **AC** 23, 7 touch, 22 flat-footed (+1 Dex, +16 natural, –4 size) **hp** 192 (24d10+60) **Fort** +8, **Refl** +9, **Will** +8 **Feint** —, **Demoralize** — **DR** 15/adamantine; **SR** 25 #### offense **Speed** 30 ft. **Melee** 2 claws +31 (2d6+11/18-20), bite +31 (3d6+11 plus petrification) **Space** 20 ft., **Reach** 10 ft. **Special Attacks** force web, petrification, wounding #### statistics **Str** 33, **Dex** 13, **Con** —, **Int** —, **Wis** 11, **Cha** 1 **BAB** +24, **CMB** +39, **CMD** +50, **TA** +31, **RTA** +21 **Skills** Perception +0 #### special abilities ### Force Web (Su) Eight times per day, a jade spider can cast a magical web of glowing green energy as a standard action. This effect functions like a _forcecage_ spell, except that it affects only one target and allows a Reflex save (DC 17) to avoid the effect. A target that fails its saving throw is imprisoned within a barred cage of force. ### Petrification (Su) A creature bitten by a jade spider must succeed at a DC 22 Fortitude save or take 1d6 points of Dexterity drain. A creature whose Dexterity score is drained to 0 becomes petrified, as per _flesh to stone_. The save DC is Constitution-based ### Wounding (Su) Any living creature damaged by a jade spider's leg slash continues to bleed, losing 1 hit point per round thereafter. Multiple wounds result in cumulative bleeding loss. The bleeding can be stopped by a DC 15 Heal check or the application of a cure spell or some other healing magic. #### Ecology **Climate/Terrain:** Any underground **Organization:** Solitary or pair **Treasure:** None **Advancement:** 25–32 HD (Gargantuan); 33–72 HD (Colossal) Jade spiders are stone constructs created as guardians for drow edifices. Their name derives from the magically treated jade that studs their sharp mandibles and saw-edged legs. A jade spider appears as a smoothly sculpted stone statue of a monstrous spider, 20 feet in diameter and 5 feet high. It weighs 45,000 pounds. ### Combat Jade spiders are fearless, unthinking guardians that carry out their assigned orders without question or pause. It attacks slow moving tagets with its slashing claws, and uses its force web to deal with mobile or ranged foes. ### Construction A jade spider’s body is chiseled from multiple blocks of stone together weighing at least 50,000 pounds. It costs 80,000 gp to create, which includes 1,000 gp for the body. Assembling the body requires a successful Craft (sculpting or masonry) check (DC 17). The creator must be 16th level and able to cast arcane spells. Completing the ritual drains 1,600 XP from the creator and requires _geas/quest_, _limited wish_, _polymorph_, _flesh to stone_, _bestow curse_, and _forcecage_.