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=== Combat ===

The pit demon spider has powerful offensive abilities, but prefers to subdue any threats and prey from a distance or through ambush tactics. Given the opportunity, it will use its sticky, swiftly hardening silk to cover the ground above its burrow and restrict creatures' movements and then use its sharp array of senses to pin-point any desirable targets and draw them underground. To that end, the tough hairs at the very tip of its eight legs give it the ability to pinpoint vibrations through solid earth. The pit demon spider's burrowing leaves tunnels that can be traversed by other creatures.

A pit demon spider has a high level of intelligence and can understand spoken language.

The pit demon spider's natural weapons and any attacks it makes are treated as magical for the purpose of bypassing [[SRD:Damage Reduction|damage reduction]].

'''{{Anchor|Spider Legs}}:''' The pit demon spider's legs are long and powerful, increasing its effective [[SRD:Space/Reach (Creature Statistic)|reach]] by 10 feet when attacking. Sharp barbs lining the four front limbs emulate a [[SRD:Wounding|wounding]] effect, dealing 1 point of [[SRD:Constitution|Constitution]] damage on each successful hit.

'''{{Anchor|Burrow Strike}} {{Ex}}:''' The pit demon spider can attack while [[Burrow|burrowed]]. Maneuvering underneath a ground bound creature with the help of its [[SRD:Tremorsense|tremorsense]], it may attack with its spider legs. The target creature counts as [[SRD:Flat-Footed|flat-footed]] unless supernaturally aware of the spider's location somehow. If a burrow strike is successful, the pit demon spider may instantly attempt a grapple check in order to drag the creature underground.

'''{{Anchor|Poison}} {{Ex}}:''' The pit demon spider's bite carries a nefarious poison that instills potent hallucinations within any affected creature. Commonly, when pushed into melee the pit demon spider will attempt to poison as many members of an adventuring party as it can and then retreat to let the poison do maximum damage.

The poison's initial effect is the [[SRD:Sickened|sickened]] condition and a confusion effect (as per the [[SRD:Confusion|spell]]). The secondary effect is an [[SRD:Insanity|insanity]] effect. As such, if the poison isn't neutralized within a minute, its effects will be permanent until removed by any effect that removes ''[[SRD:Insanity|insanity]]''. Immunity to [[SRD:Mind-Affecting Effect|mind-affecting]] effects will protect against the confusion effect, but not the sickened condition. The save DC is [[SRD:Constitution|Constitution]]-based.

'''Spell-Like Abilities:''' At will&mdash;''[[SRD:Quicken Spell|quickened]] [[SRD:Grease|grease]]'', ''[[SRD:Major Image|major image]]'' (of itself only) (DC 19); 3/day&mdash;''[[SRD:Invisibility|invisibility]]'', ''[[SRD:Silence|silence]]''. [[SRD:Caster Level|Caster level]] 12th. Save DCs are [[SRD:Charisma|Charisma]]-based.

'''The following abilities are always active on a pit demon spider, as the [[SRD:Spell|spells]] ([[SRD:Caster Level|caster level]] 12th)'''<br/>
''[[SRD:Nondetection|nondetection]]'', ''[[SRD:See Invisibility|see invisibility]]'', ''[[SRD:Spider Climb|spider climb]]''. 

'''Skills:''' A pit demon spider has a +8 racial bonus to [[SRD:Climb Skill|Climb]], [[SRD:Jump Skill|Jump]] and [[SRD:Spot Skill|Spot]] checks due to its various movement speeds and its eight eyes respectively.

'''{{Anchor|Nest}}:''' A pit demon spider is a cunning hunter and has a human-like intelligence. It has its nest around 100 feet underground, with 1d4+2 tunnels big enough for Medium creatures to traverse unimpaired, leading up to exits within a maximum of 500 feet. The entrances to these tunnels are usually camouflaged, requiring a DC 25 [[SRD:Search Skill|Search]] check to find. The first fifty feet down from the entrances of these tunnels is usually a sheer drop, resulting in a 50-foot deep pit trap designed to claim the lives of any creatures unfortunate enough to fall in. The inside of the tunnels may or may not be covered by spider silk, creating [[SRD:Difficult Terrain|difficult terrain]].

Within the central nest is usually a clutch of 2d6+3 pit demon spider eggs valued at 500 gp each, as well as a small hoard of items and treaure collected from killed adventurers. An infant female pit demon spider may be trained by characters that can influence [[SRD:Magical Beast Type|magical beasts]].
Alignment	Usually neutral evil +
Author	Sulacu +
Challenge Rating	12 +
Environment	Forests and jungles +
Identifier	3.5e Monster +
Level Adjustment	— +
Rated By	Undead Knave +
Rating	Rating Pending +
Size	Large +
Title	Pit Demon Spider +
Type	Magical Beast +