Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Ettercap
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Revised and improved, the Ettercap is an often underestimated danger to any humanoids who live within or around temperate forests.
ArtStation - Dark Fantasy vol. 8, Bjorn Hurri
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Tech priest: “Will classify as unrepentant heresy. Placed on purge list”
Being friends with a colony means you get all the silk you could ever want. A way to dispose of annoying npcs and the perfect companions for a high fashion designer pc.
I shudder at the thought of Ettercaps getting hold of Cave Fisher eggs
The main rule I always remembered was Araneas can be talked to and Ettercaps can NOT. Any adventurer who encounters a portion of the forest covered in webs, just needs to go around it. I love spiders, but I HATE spiderwebs and the last thing your character needs to see is a hammock of webs covered in the spiderlings of some Ettercap's monstrous pet Orbweaver advancing upon you as the Ettercap waits just out of view for the coup de grace. If you google "Colonial Spiders" or "Social Spiders" will get the gist of what fighting a nest of Ettercaps and their pets is like.
You call them crazy, but try to burglarize a house made of SPIDERS.
Rather than go to the trouble of kidnapping an individual from a community (though that's still a very good tactic for getting the attention of that individual's loved ones), I could definitely see ettercaps keeping selectively bred barking spiders. These are giant spiders that are able to vocalise similarly to a parrot and mimic distress calls of other creatures, including human children. One of the most chilling encounters I've run has been with a nest of these.
lol barking spiders
*read's comment: Nightmare fuel intensifies* 👍 Oh gosh! 😈🕷🕸
Aj I want you to know that the community of people who play dnd have started to idolize you with the same community warmth that is given to Matt Mercer. You are awesome my dude. This is my favorite channel on youtube
High praise! Thank you. 😊
I've never used ettercaps. After this video, I just might have to. They sound much more terrifying than orcs/goblins/kobolds for low level PCs.
The Paladin in me wants to purge these foul creatures more and more as the video continues.
I feel the same way... The same way... XD
Man, I wish dnd would just release another monster guide so they could expand on some of their monsters. Most 5e players only know etttercaps as “spider people”.
I know that there are online resources, I just think an official release or two would really add some much needed depth to 5e.
I have a quest line involving spiders planned for my group. Thanks for a tip on these guys, they'll make an interesting addition to that quest
Going to run an Australian-themed campaign starting tomorrow. Now I know how to make the obligatory spider encounters even scarier!
According to Douglas Adams, "Of the ten most venomous spiders in the world, Australia has nine of them. Or, it would be more accurate to say that of the nine most venomous spiders in the world, Australia has all of them. There are curiously few snakes in Australia, probably because the spiders ate them all."
There has to be at least one NPC called Bruce and another one called Sheila. Otherwise it just wouldn't be ridgy-didge.
Favored Enemy: Monstrosities is worth it, Rangers. Here's the math:
"The creature has silk glands like those of a spider located near the anus"
"The Ettercaps ensure their prey are kept very quiet by filling their mouth with web fluid"
Weapons grade descriptive horror.
*Takes favored enemy in disgust* 🤢
If you have an infestation of these things, I think alchemist fire would be a nice choice of weapons.You'll want a sword just in case but yea.
Given the selective breeding of giant spider pets, I would customize ettercaps by giving them distinct spider traits for different groups in a forest, with trapdoor ettercaps, jumping ettercaps, fishing ettercaps, etc., all living in relative proximity in a nightmare forest.
Much like spiders, ettercaps have poor vision, and many males will die simply because they tried to mate with the wrong kind of ettercap!
A trapdoor ettercap's lair would be a grotesque burrow of horrors, with dried-out husks of previous victims webbed in permanent horror, while jumping ettercaps would routinely take down forest-dwelling birds. They may have a fear of or hatred for owls, who can see far better than them, and giant owls may make a particular point of swooping down on ettercaps from surprise, scooping them up with their bone-crunching talon attack, then dropping them from 60-90' up. Fishing ettercaps will make web "rafts" suspended on a bubble of air to "fish" in freshwater streams and ponds, though their rafts aren't sturdy enough for fast-moving water. They may have an adversarial relationship with giant carp, who attack them as they try to prey on smaller fish. Brown recluse ettercaps actually favor the edges of small agricultural villages, quickly moving in and taking over barns, stables, attics, basements, and so on once all the people have been eaten to extinction.
Now that I think about it, ettercaps would make phenomenal allies for green or (especially) black dragons! Picture a noxious overgrown bayou swamp, loaded with spiders and alligators. The black dragon can easily power through ettercap webs, CON-save against ettercap poison, let the ettercaps take the blame for the high mortality rate in the swamp, and the ettercaps will live in abject terror of the black dragon, fleeting from it, hiding from it, or groveling beneath it like the orcs cowering before the balrog in Moria, while building traps to guard the area. The black dragon doesn't have to pay attention to the whole swamp, it just pays attention to the ettercaps, who have their web network (webwork?) of their own!
Just some ideas off the top of my head for customization. Fun video as always AJ, keep up the great work!
Lovely work, you should make some stat blocks for them.
Give the Jumping one a leap ability, as well as a high athletics.
The Fisher could have a swim speed and water webs, or and Sir bubble ability.
I believe this to be among AJs best videos. That part about the reptile eggs and laughing men was just spot on. Well done, sir.
I know I'm a nerd, but they should stop putting belly buttons on creatures that hatch from eggs. Artists trained in anatomy and physiology should know better!
Completely agree! In art history circles, this has come up in depictions of Adam and Eve!
The gestate in a sack, I didn't see mention of eggs, but yeah, totally agree.
Jokes on you: that's it's cloaca ; )
AJ...the Lord Of D&D Lore
I have used Ettercaps as forest filler. I admit I have never used them as a focal enemy. That thumbnail though...... skincrawling. If I could show that off. Maybe they would be a little crazier.
I was asked to DM a group and needed a good first encounter. This just supplied me with one. thanks.
Inspired me to write a horror based adventure of a dark creepy monster in the forest stealing people
A web of ship rigging? It looks like my lich pirate lord just got a new first mate!
Calling a spider a "Cobb" has the same energy as "spoodler"
Ricardo PenaMcKnight my daughter loves to say spoodler. I prefer the term “nope”
Add to the creepy by giving not speech but mimicking, hearing a crying child or the last words of that missing party member.
I loved the hobitt.. I like to think of the halfling bilbo as the wife, the 3 trolls who turn to stone, then the spiders, then he is barely rider and the elf city, then the dragon smaug and he burns the town, then the battle of 5 armies lol. I love the hobitt
16:30 Jesus chr*st! I'll have to take this in two parts - as i'm sleeping soon. That said as a homebrew idea' they should have 4 extra arms on their bachs, and rejointed limbs if they don't already so they can do the creepy human spider crawl. Hmmm i suppose you could create a really metal nursary rhyme. The party tries to give a kid candy & they're mentally scared for life. I'll have to comeback later after 18:00 my arachnophobia is litterally intensifying.
4:50 I'm Dutch and I can say that etterkop or some variant of that (etterbak being more common) still exists. Etter is a verb that means to pus, like pus oozing out of an infected wound. And kop is also still used and means an animal's head. Kop is therefore also used as a mild insult or combined w another phrase or insult, like 'hou je kop' meaning 'hold your head' or, more accurately 'shut up'.
Never knew it had it's origins in Danish though ;)
Can't go wrong with ettercap henchmen for driders and evil araneas. :3
Aaaaand I'm using this. Lol
@@codypatton2859 D&D has always had huge numbers of spider monsters. Enough for a whole campaign if you want to go all out. XD
The "Ettercop" from the hobbits lyrics sounds alot like the danish name for spider: "Edderkop".
I had never made the connection from Ethercap, but the way you pronounced it in the video made it so clear, almost as i you were speaking danish. Its been a long time since I read the Hobbit, but I would bet that the danish version just use "Edderkop" in place of "Ettercop" (or however it is spelled).
Atterkop 🙂
God damn ettercaps are so cool. I have an ettercap in my world that was helped to set up in the Capital City of The Kingdom of Angmere by a Succubus who gave her an abandoned house in the backalleys. in return the ettercap then sends out her spiders as spies in the service of the succubus who acts as an adviser to the King
The OG Ettercap is just Danny Devito with goblin ears
And badger paws xD
So I use Fantasy Grounds for most of my D&D database, and the version of the Monster Manual for 5e that's on there now includes an alternate version of the Ettercap with a Web Garrote feature instead of their Claws attack.
AJ, I gotta tell u. For some reason, this is the one group that I EVER thought of as "disturbing".
And I have been into this stuff for a long time.
Whoever wrote them into thier latest incarnation, really came up with some wild fluff.
Horrible. I love them.
I remember storytelling the ettercap in 2e. It's always a delight to play this encounter for a new group. But it's very hard to dm. I always try to envision the ettercap as IT, feeding on fear and confusion. Only appearing when a party member is abandoned, alone or paralyzed. Descending down from the cave wall or canopy. Embracing the hapless victim with its cold alien hands and then just dragging them off to their lair. The end of the encounter is just trying to save the party member. It works like a charm.
Very good vid aj. Especially the explanation on how to roleplay this absolutely scary fucker.
I have used (and will continue to use) multiple ettercaps in my Pathfinder game! They're fun beasties.
The evolution is amazing, from a goblinoid to a scary insect that can kill a party (depending on the competence)
In my campaigns, the original forms are cannon of what they were in the past.
Yes! Needed this , I've got my party coming up to a portion of a neglected tomb/underdark tunnel. This tunnel is the domain of a clever ettercap who will be trying to trap the party and feed his spiders before they find his modest horde.
As AJ mentioned, ettercaps don't collect or use treasure themselves, but here's a useful DM trick for all monsters that don't collect treasure: just because they don't collect it or care about it, doesn't mean that dead adventurers haven't passed through before, and their corpses are still laying there, will their equipment, gold, and jewelry still on them undisturbed by the animal or monster that already ate what they wanted and left the rest.
I'm reminded of a story from one of Joe Rogan's wilderness survival expert/ hunting buddies about the time he shot an elk, and was packing the meat off back to his base camp. This was going to take several days of hiking through the woods, with 100 lbs. of meat at a time. He takes the first load, comes back for the second, and finds a bear had happened along, eaten maybe half of his remaining elk, and then fallen asleep on top of it! He had to decide, "do I try to scare the bear off and take what is mine, or do I let the bear have it?!?"
@@matthill5426 Good point - I was planning on the items mostly being clutched in the hands of the webbed victims, but was toying around with the idea of the ettercap keeping a few little shiny things in its nest.
Hey AJ, excellent video! Right from the beginning from the dice resting on the park bench to whatever that thing was at 11:00 minutes in. I didn't know ettercap was so interesting and dangerous.
Thanks AJ & have a great day.
Soooo kinda like a wendigo but also a spider
btw no matter what other info you give about Ettercaps, your first descriptions of them will always be correct. love these beans.
One of my favorite encounters was fighting 3 ettercaps 1 ranger 1 barbarian 1 rouge plus a mess of spiders inside a giant tree lair
I am thinking of an investation in a city where in an abandoned or unexplained vacated house an escaped ettercap female from a wizards laboratory has managed to dig a hole and connected the hole to the city sewage where the humidity and constant supply of small pet life and a few unexplained missing city dwellers have sustained the ettercap and her few males which have attracted a few other various large spider species which have got in though the city sewage systems drain lines ( A nightmare close to home ) the adventures notice the webs of spider young all over the city far more then in a normal city, citizens look tired and drained some sick from constant spider bites some have died from the venomous bites from the young kids to the olderly ... yep definitely doing this in one of my games maybe a Halloween themed D&D session
Getting ready to watch the video. It's funny it popped up because in my campaign currently Ettercaps are a Silk Merchant family (They are Were Spiders) prime soldiers. The butler is even an ettercap with a disguise spell and is their head assassin. Of course with the etters you get all of their spider pets at the ready. Oh and the traps they make out of bones and stones. Mwahahahahahaha!
I've been waiting for this one for a while. Thanks AJ :)
you'd probably not be shocked to learn that we in GWs fold still have a creature like this called the Ambull. bipedal humanoid insect like creature that's a ambush predator .
Damn Iv been waiting this one and I’m glad it finally came out!
I'm adding an Ettercap and a giant spider or two as a encounter for my session in the Dragon of Icespire Peak campaign. They have to visit the Logger's Camp and must sleep along the way. If they decide to sleep in the forest, an Ettercap will lure someone outside the tent to capture them in a web, and considering it's nighttime I just imagined how terrifying this fight could be with the Ettercap surrounded by giant spiders. I'm really looking forward to it.
They are a ton of fun. Using their sneaky cowardly nature and the nasty ability damage bite can be setups for a future encounter too. Two of the party have reduced dex? Maybe put them against a larger group of enemies with low to-hit scores before they can get extended downtime.
Great video AJ. I used these monsters a lot, home-brew each bunch based upon the locale. Most of my players take a while to realize they are Ettercaps.
I created a race evolved from Ettercaps on my Spider-Island mini-campaign. They were in constant war with the island Tropical Elves (surface Drow), Mountain Dwarves, and (Underdark) Centaur Ants. They are of average intelligence, Neutral Evil, socialized (with each other, cooperative), have 8 limbs, and have a spiderlike abdomen. From a distance, they look like a form of a giant spider. They spawn a bunch like Ettercaps, but when they hatch the ravenous young attack and eat each other (and anything living nearby), staying close to the egg cacoon they spawned from. They regenerate (normal healing but things grow back over time). The last 1-3 hatchlings (if 2-3, team up) to take on the world. The first things they find are their parents. They submit to serve their parents or become food. They have an affinity for giant spiders and Drow (not Tropical Elves - surface Drow, actual Underdark Drow). Everything else is food. They are smart enough to farm. Deep within their lairs they have creatures kept for just that, to supplement their eating so they don't exhaust the local food sources. That's ingrained into their nature as their ancestors did just that and they evolved away from that behavior, even eating their ancestors. I took Ettercaps and ran with it... but only for the Spider-Island dominant race. I created that "civilization" because I was challenged to make spiders and Ettercaps, without giving them supernatural powers, scary again. Spider silk armor is far more effective than one would think. Also, their tools are Ettercap like but were far less basic.
Oh! You might love this one. The players, a low-level group, were hired to clear out the spider problem in the lower levels of a castle. It seemed like a simple spider-smashing mission until halfway through. The giant spiders seemed to get more cunning and someone was setting traps. The end boss was an Ettercap. I also (in my campaigns) undid the myth that spider silk is flammable (aside from the Web spell). It seems flammable because we all know spider silk from real (small and smaller) spiders. Spider silk from giant spiders and Ettercaps is not any more flammable than a steel cord.
I have a player and she's really scared of spiders
*This otta be fun*
I love the Ettercap image you used for this upload. It's looks more believable & scarier than other versions which tend to look goofy to me.
I think for my game I'd have the Ettercaps as few different tribes and keep their druidic nature. The schism would be after receiving the attention of the spider fiend; do they: a) Live like the spiders in tune with nature b) bring their truth to the "civilized" races and destroy the artifices that remove them from nature c) Worship their fiendish patron as the pinnacle of form they wish to achieve, or d) build their nests among their prey turning great cities into their webs. This way, I feel, gives a DM more possibilities. All are cunning and monstrous, but they can now serve multiple roles in a campaign. I also think taking away a monster's voice takes away from their potential.
Given that name, I was expecting it to be some kind of mushroom-themed creature.
shroom spiders
If that cult still exists in some dark corner somewhere, I bet they are up to chemically/surgically crafting Driders now. (How driders are made in the Pathfinder setting.)
A large size Ettercap in a forest is terrifying. They can climb and move and hide too well for such a large, fat creature, and as ambush hunters they can be absolutely terrifying.
A swarm of 30-40 Ettercap spawn with 1 hp that stop to eat their dead and a dozen low DC poison checks per round might even be scarier.
A large, fat, ambush hunter in a forest? Oh, you mean my cat, "Pumpkin".
Yeeeeeeeeeeessssss. My favorite monster for any dungeon boss
I'm going to need to make an oceanic variation. Imagine an Ettercap captain with a spider crew.
Ettercrab?
@@Mare_Man I'm thinking Giant Waterspider with a semi transparent webbing across the entire vessel. Turning the thing into both a ship and submarine. Like a horrifying spider equivalent of Davy Jones and the Flying Dutchman
Love it! Man I never new they could be so creepy! Once again, great job aj!
I am sure someone else has said that. but when you talk about Ettercop. the danish word for spider is Edderkop.
This is the single coolest D&D back story I've heard yet. Thank you for introducing me to it!
You are most welcome
Sometimes the timing of your videos is uncanny. I'm about to send my party into an ant nest bug themed dungeon. This video has given me many fiendish ideas, so thank you very much AJ.
Tell them I said hi (and also "Chitter chitter Hisssss!")
Not to be too nosey but just how extensive is your library of Dragon mags and White Dwarf?
Listening to this episode, which was fantastic, I was struck by the amount of research you’d need to do from very old material that can be hard to come by and sometimes very expensive.
I am missing a lot of the old white dwarf magazines. But yeah, pretty extensive archives.
This video was so horrifying and disgusting, I could hardly watch it. Very vivid and well done video, this makes me want to use Ettercaps again.
Dang Bilbo slayed those spiders with those sweet roasts!
I'm not sure I'd make the webs "immune" to cold. I'd do something more like this: When you stick to it it's more like that scene in dumb and dumber, you stick to the frost (possibly doing damage as you tear yourself free). It becomes hard and brittle so it becomes vulnerable to bludgeoning because it can shatter and the strength check to escape it is either easier if you only have a little bit of web on you but much harder if you are cocooned in it. It might not burn quite so easily but it would thaw out, indeed it might be the only way to free a cocooned npc without killing them.
My first character death was by this, hexblade, could of survived if did my darkness, but didn't want to blind teammates, my party accidentally left me behind...
It's similar to how Norwegians say "Spider".
They say Ettercop if i'm not mistaken.
Yeah. Sound quite like to Edderkopp.
must be on the same wavelength as AJ, was just thinking about these guys
Do flumph next please. My floaty, psionic underdark bois dont get enough love. Great video btw
I wonder if an ettercap would get drunk if it was given caffeine like a normal spider?
This is how the bard makes half-caps
Have you ever seen the photographs from the experiment where scientists gave spiders doses of LSD and mescaline? The drug actually changes how the build their webs! Look it up, it's an old experiment from the 1960s, the photos are well-documented!
@@matthill5426 I have
yes, please.
I totally hear Bilbo shouting Attercop!
Attercop! Attercop! Down you drop!
I love these critters for some reason
I had a feeling the name was linguistically connected to Attercop, thanks for providing that bit of trivia!
ok so imagine the ettercap is using the phase spider as a mount and it has a swarm of spiders that run across its body like armor it will work as 3/4 cover bumping its ac to 18 until the swarm runs out of hp the swarm still has an ac 12 and act's as a normal swarm so if the ettercap is grappled r comes in contact with someone they will receive 4d4 piercing damage from the swarm
I am so glad I found this entry, it helps me to expand the background and circumstances for my encounter wonderfully. My plan is to have the party come across a suffering harvest/farming town. On one side they have a green Hag, on the other, ettercaps and their spidey friends brought by the hag to force better deals from the desperate populace. Village elder made a deal to protect their harvest in exchange for some of their land, so she made their scarecrows into the creature version, which are now killing the nightly guard patrols in addition to "stopping" the nightly ettercap raids. Essentially she has them bent right over the barrel. Over all she wants them gone, control over the area and a daughter out of the deal. Any extra benefits from deals is going to be gravy. She uses blights to protect her area and is friends with a beur hag who will track the party down if they kill her.
I play intelligent monsters and trapper creatures viciously and cunningly, so this is NOT going to be a roflstomp murder spree for them (most of them are murder hobos).
I remember that poem! Tolkien was such a fun writer.
I really like that the druids are responsible for the ettercaps in my own world druids are more often than not eco extremists I could easily see them sacrificing a number of their own or perhaps some local humans to transform them into ettercaps and place place them in prime timber country
Are you doing some catch up on vids you missed? :) Welcome back GG
Loggers beware.
Ghastly_Grinner can’t blame em humans suck
I made them an important medium power race in my setting. In the past they enslaved one of the great tribes of humans for a very long time, keeping them separate from the standard fantasy humans and elves.
They are creepy, and I make them brightly coloured like spiders in my country. Players are merciless in dealing with them. 🕸
I love this monster. I totally traumatized a party with these in an encounter.
After a certain point, somewhere around WD 20 or so, they started skimming the best stuff off for the folio before it made it to the Fiend Factory articles. A very few critters appeared in both and it was implied after Turnbull was replaced, that they were planning another Folio, but it never happened. Got to wonder if there are some great monsters forgotten in the GW archive somewhere
Just finished hunting down the 4 people who disliked this and thumbsdowned their own excellent d&d videos. The least I could do.
Simple way to make them worse, or possibly a PC race is to up the intelligence, but to keep the spider feel let's add another two pairs of arms dexterous enough for tool & weapon use, (yes I'm stealing the vision of Muffet from Undertale.) Now picture one of those as an archer with two bows & and six arms, firing down a hail of poison arrows on a party in order to sheppard them into it's webbing, or a large Trap Door ettercap like that with class levels in Barbarian charging at you in a RAGE with 6 battle axes one in each of it's hands.
6 int is just 2 below the average human..
Opti Average humans have 10
I swear there's a creature like that in D&D somewhere . . .
God that artwork is so creepy and amazing!🤘🤘
The one at 15:00 is fucking terrifying. YEEERRRRK! NO!
Edderkop is the danish word for spider. Neat
Mean while on the Animated spell book channel, Half-caps for those who want to be the real Spooderman.
With all the spider motif, I've always been a little surprised they don't work with/under Drow. Still, nasty nightmares I'm the right circumstances!
i could see an ettercap leader as a shaman or having some cleric levels who worships lloth.
like spiders the females could (generally) be much larger than the males, and act as a leader staying at the nest raising young and providing leadership
now, that's a small bench!
This video inspired me to make a better app Druid using the rules from savage species, one of my favorite characters 🕷🕸
Wow. I think I'm going to use these monsters in a horror one shot.
7:00
Goodlord, 4chan is entirely made up of endercaps!😱
Real D&D gameplay question: would/ should strangulation attacks be grapple rolls?
So IRL it takes approximately 2-5 minutes to fully strangle someone out.
So you can say that you are strangling them but take a -6 to the checks (hailing back to when called shots were a thing) and each success is another round in which the target is forced to hold their breath, so their con in rounds before they start having making con saves. Then just the normal rules after that, con saves for 5e and Fort for 3e and Pathfinder.
But anytime the victim makes a save the round restart as they were able to take a breath. I personally wouldn't let them cry out, even choke holds would leave your voice wrecked and basically inaudible.
Choke holds have always been part of a prestige class or some splat books had some feats somewhere.
You can strangle someone but why would you, you can pin someone far faster and then just have your party stab them to death. Or save you some effort and stick them in a barrel full of liquid and leave them in there.
Edit: thinking about it, could just ignore that penalty and instead roll with disadvantage. It actually is really hard to strangle someone cause they have these things called arms.
I talked about this in a previous video not so long ago. It's a lot faster than drowning!
@@AJPickett movies have it wrong when showing strangulation. It takes an uncomfortable amount of time to strangle someone. But of course people are going to fight for air and try wrenching your hands free of their throat which may greatly extend the time to KO them, but so would someone treading water this few moments above water helps a massive amount.
That is why I differentiated from a choke hold and strangulation. Choke holds tend to restrict blood to the brain where as strangulation is for air. Thing is there is oxygen in the blood and lungs so the only reason that strangulation is normally faster than drowning is if the victim breathed out during the struggle or had the wind knocked out of them which are both far more likely in that situation. So the body has to go through most of the O2 in the blood and lungs before it starts to shut down where as a chokehold just straight up hinders the blood supply to the brain. But it still takes to long for a normal fight, even in mma you don't see that many choke holds succeed as there is quite a bit the fighter has to do to complete it and normally that is from just being far better than their opponent.
@@AJPickett Thank you (I'm a little behind on more than a few of your videos)
Robert Hill well garrotes don’t strangle they either keep blood from reaching the brain. Or cut people’s heads off.
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I realy enjoy the way the 1e and 2e ettercaps looked. Pretty much a primate equivalent to a spider, like a mole to a mole cricket. Convergent evolution at its best!
In Danish ederkop means spider indeed. But kop means cup atm, so I always thought it means poison cup. Same in faroese btw, never heard kop meaning spider
As a dane, the word etter (edder) means venom, and kop can mean goblet, head or bloated.
14:34 I'm not arachnophobic, but God damn. . . 😲
Ps. Are they smart enough to make complex traps? I'd imagine if they can use bows they'd easily make trip wire traps that fling a sword or spear taken from a previously eaten adventurer
Great video! I very much enjoyed the etymology and history in the intro.
I really like the colour of that spider at 24:45 think I might have to paint a mini like that
but how do they relate to the Drow? a great use for them could be as the keepers of the entrances that leads to Drow advanced positions underground. webbing aberrations that rule over the forrest in which the cave is.
edit: why aren't Ettercaps Aberrations???
They are technically a version of Druid Bred creatures, so, Monstrosity.
Honestly, i'd think they'd freak the drow out.
@@thedarkmaster4747 the Drow breed with Fiends & have other Fiends as their Cleric's guards. it's very hard to freak out those mofos
JoaoG R That's true, but the neogi freak out the drow, they even freak out the ilithids. Every race has their limit and given how sadistic the drow are(As a trope for dark elves or elves in general.) and how mind warping the bedtime and behaviour stories they tell their kids must be. Ettercaps being the "evil heathen shape shifting, fecal feeding, finger munching(and elves to love their fingures) spiders of apostacy." would probably make a good few drow regress to childhood on sight. They're a far cry from a witty glabrezu or a family friendly marilith. They have no ambition, no sckemes, no desire to elevate themselves, no desire to dominate those beneath them, no search for perfection. Infact they've gone the other way, crawling down, not up, they're not connoisers either. Just apotheotic ex vermin worshippers. They're litterally the "morlocks from above" to the drow. Especially as those elven eyes will be able to spot those warped post humanoid features.
Perfect! I just started writing up a new campaign revolving around a new emerging cult of spider-demon worshippers deep in the forests. Now that I know there is already a spider-demon in the established lore it should save me some work. I love what your doing here AJ. I swear everytime I listen to your videos I learn something new, even if I'm rewatching it hahaha.
Love using these guys after over using goblins as my ambush monsters, just to get the players feeling complacent. They always react like they are really powerful bad guys heh.