Ettercap (4e Monster)

Ettercap
Primitive and instinctual hunters, ettercaps use webs to snare their prey and have few scruples about killing and eating sentient creatures.

Ettercap Priestess Tactics
The ettercap priestess fights toe-to-toe with its foes, using web tangle to immobilize them, and healing word on itself or its allies when it is bloodied. If it starts to loose combat, it uses allies to harry its foes to give itself the opportunity to escape.

Ettercap Sneak Tactics
Ettercap sneaks usually try to ambush their fooes, using web tangle to ensnare, and using allies to flank and sneak attack them

Ettercap Lore
A character knows the following information with a successful arachana skill check|check]].
 * DC 10: A spiritual kinship with arachnids allows ettercaps to live among and communicate with spiders and scorpions, and to keep such creatures as pets. An ettercap uses such beasts as a human hunter uses dogs or drakes.

Encounter Groups
Ettercaps are usually found among groups of spider|monstrous spiders]] and spydric-ones.

Level 5 Encounter (XP 1000)

 * 2 Ettercap|Ettercap Fang Guard]] (level 4 soldier)
 * 1 Ettercap Sneak (level 6 skirmisher)
 * 1 Ettercap|Ettercap Webspinner]] (level 5 controller)
 * 1 Ettercap Priestess (level 5 controller (leader))