Gilt Weaver
Beast · no Crown (Meridian)
T1d4Minor
Palm-sized spiders with gold-tipped legs and warm glowing abdomens that spin nearly unbreakable webs which tighten under moonlight.
Tier 1 · Role Minor · Pool Vigor 2 · AC 9 · ATK +2 · Save DC 11 · Dmg 1 (flat)
| Stat | Score | Mod | Die |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body | 12 | - | - |
| Mind | 5 | - | - |
| Sense | 12 | - | - |
| Heart | 12 | - | - |
| Cunning | 14 | - | - |
| Fate | 12 | - | - |
A Minor has no attribute mechanics: the scores describe the creature, they do not roll.
Passives
Lightsilk Web
Webs glow faintly gold and are nearly unbreakable (Body check at disadvantage to free oneself). Under Crown-Moon moonlight the webs tighten, and trapped creatures take 1 Vigor damage each round.
Maneuvers
Web Snare
Fires a strand of lightsilk at a target within 10 ft. The target makes a Body save (DC 11) or is restrained.
Constricting Web
Tightens its webs around a trapped creature. The target takes 1 Vigor damage and makes its next Body save to escape at disadvantage.
Reactions
Web Retreat
When threatened, retreats along its web at full speed, gaining advantage on its next Web Snare.
Tactics
GM tactics
Gilt weavers build webs in narrow passages and wait. They do not engage in direct combat, relying on webs to trap prey, then tightening the lightsilk around anything that has stopped struggling.
Running it
Rules
- One Vigor pool of 2 x Tier, no Vitality. It breaks and flees with 1 left, and dies at 0. The pool does not regenerate.
- A hit deals a flat 1, no roll. A crit (natural 20 only) rolls d4 and never lands below 1.
- Crits on a natural 20 only.
- Minor: no stat modifiers or dice in play; its scores describe the creature, they do not roll.
- With 1 Vigor left it breaks and flees, out of the fight but alive; Fanatics fight on to 0 instead.
- At 0 Vigor it is dead: 2 total damage, and a single blow of 2 or more kills it on the spot.
- Vigor damage is simply damage against a Minor: its whole pool is Vigor.
- Group morale: when its group loses half its number, fled or dead, the rest check morale.
- NPCs never take wounds.