If the filament is that strong, I could imagine adventurers being sent to try to get it or a spider for the purpose of creating a silk-light suit of flexible metal armor.
But if Loth recognises them as real spiders I do not know. Maybe a drow could be forgiven for stepping on one of them. Unless it is one of those on said spider ship of couse.
There's this running gag in my campaign where I find any excuse to shoehorn in spiders since several of my players hate spiders. This is perfect. I need more spiders AJ!!!!!
Perhaps the steel spider were created to make silk for better steel cables or even some kind of tough but durable and flexible fabric that could be used for armor or a portable pop out Shield? Also these would make a great familiar for a deep imaskari!🧙♂️
Every time I nearly have a panic attack at the idea of an above-average-sized spider, I always think back to the absolute nightmares that are D&D spiders and remember I’m lucky not to live in a universe where spiders get big and/or particularly dangerous.
On the plus side most really big spiders have little desire to get near people and are just as likely to run away. It is the little one you need to worry about.
Fun note about spiders . If a spiders was the size of a football. Most animals would be food for them . Oddly this reminds me of 2 monster i made a rust mouse and steel cobra. Rust mouse was made to eat metal ( mostly iron) to escape a prison. The cobra is what happen when you feed them to a snake. It s lose it venom but get a shocking bite and cutting tail
These will definitely be making an appearance in my campaign. Im going to force them to use the body of one of the spiders to handle the webbing, anything else will get cut
Oh this would be fun for a warforge swarmkeeper ranger. On a side note. With enough research, would be a deadly upgrade to the web spell. Name it steel web. Same effect as the web spell but the webbing has the properties of the steel webbing and effects from the steel spider. I'd say 4th or 5th level spell.
Nothing getts the party more pumped up than being showered by displacerbeastgutts, turning the ambush completely around and making them stand still and realize that they are already in the middle of a lair made of such webbings. Alwhays think twice befor long resting in the first room of an ancient tomb.
Steel Spiders....a very terrifying concept as their fleshy cousins are already pesky to deal with! Wouldnt want to venture into a nest of them before its too late!
Lure the obnoxius lair worth of flesy spiders into the lair of the steel ones. You get rid of the fleshy ones and the steel ones are now freshly fed and more likely to pass by.
Thanks for the years of inspiration I’m 19 and I’ve been listening to you videos since I was 12 my great grandmother got me into dungeons and dragons and magic the gathering but she passed away two months ago and your videos bring me back to playing d&d with my Grammy thank you for helping me cope with my loss of an amazing DM and a even better grandmother.
Same here but she only ran first and second edition campaigns she left me all of her campaigns that she ran and all the ones she didn’t they sitting in a box till me and my fiancé can get our own place
I am playing Numenera for years and I find it fascinating that since Arcana of the Ancients came out the creatures and world are getting the attention of famous monster ecologist like you. It is truly a fasciniating setting. And while the core game usually thinks of the players to be humans (which is disapointing, considering the focus of the weird and wonderful), with the right extentions you can even play as an immortal octopus like I prefer to do.
I played a session as Joe Pineapples, the Atomic-Biological-Chemical (ABC) war robot sniper assassin specialist, a very cool character for old 2000AD comics "ABC Warriors".
Heh, living metal spiders, spinning webs of an unknown metal wire. Yeah, that would be creepy. I remember once we grew some tomato plants and I decided to check on them one day. Not only were there spider webs but some of the biggest spiders I have ever seen for a place that gets a cold winter. Their leg span may not have been hand sized but it was a near thing.
If one were to succeed at containing them, they would make for quite a significant source of revenue, considering the high price their wire 'web strands' would easily fetch, should one 'milk' them regularly. I can think of several interesting applications for it...
Great video AJ. I wonder how these critters would interact with my homebrew Clockwork Spiders. Webs are almost the same. They are severely warped spider flesh golems infused with a refined adamantine clockwork exoskeleton. The flesh golem inside operates it, does the digestion, repair the clockwork with the secretions, refill the metal web & venom sacs with secretions, and constantly winds up the clockwork parts. Their venom is in a bunch of tiny specialized sacks that mix at the moment of biting, different kinds of acid based upon the target. They are very noisy when moving and are far more agile than they look and sound... they wobble and vibrate when moving. They are the size of small cats. I was inspired to make them from an 80s sci-fi movie "Runaway". They are about as intelligent as pygmy monkeys. They tend to just live life guarding the area they are in and eating whatever it takes to maintain their bodies, usually their own parts that wear down or fall off. Ironically, that makes them always in pristine condition when met. They innately fear Rust Monsters who can just walk through their webbing and turn them into a useless golem of chopped up spider bits on top of a pile of rust with a mild brushing. They have tiny drills and hooks that look like hairs on their legs that allow them to move on their webbing and walls. They do "get tired". They are very fast and agile but rely upon how much energy can be wound up in their springs. The innards need 10 minutes of winding to get 1 minute of combat fast action... non-combat level actions do not get spent faster than wound up... and non-actions get to store up the energy. So, if you get these critters to move their full potential for their wind-up time limit of an hour, they are almost paralyzed until they get a chance to rest somewhere to wind up for more fast-able ability. If pressured to move that fast for that long, they will usually try to casually walk away until they can hide to store up energy. What do you think of the interaction? Both would see each other as food at first. Both are brighter than the average critter. Both have similar capabilities. Steel Spiders never run out of the ability to move fast. Clockwork Spiders are not only hard to damage but can take a lot of hits for their size and do a damaging leap-charge upon their targets. You think they would do a war of attrition to the point of one side eliminating the other (who would win if you'd guess), come to respect each other's territory, or find a way to work in symbiosis... much to the disdain of the adventurers who find them? I'm starting to think that AD&D 5th Edition would be really compatible with my Clockwork beings and items.
@@lorekeeper685 I'd love to give the stats to a couple veteran DMs and listen to them discuss how Steel and Clockwork spiders would interact with each other. My personal theory is a scuffle and eventual symbiosis, unlike actual spiders which are cannibals until the urge to mate comes into play. The Steel-o's being the fast and stealthy troopers, the Clock-y's being akin to the armored division.
@@That80sGuy1972 I would also go for symbiosis, especially if a good aligned supercomputer or construct (perhaps created by an ancient civilization of wise druid/artificers that had a close connection with nature and the more spiritual aspects of life) that retains the sticky webbing as that is very helpful. Perhaps then they can unify as an actual species that is part of an ecosystem and usually more helpful than not. They probably would hate clockwork horrors.
Wires, like the webbing of this spider, are one of my top three favorite fantasy weapons. From hitman’s garrot to cyberpunk’s monowire, and every anime villain in between.
@@Harrowed2TheMind so, they are more like categories than specific weapons. Switch weapons/transforming weapons, like the ones from Bloodborne, and organic, living, weaponry.
@@nicolaezenoaga9756 chimera as a living weapon? Not exactly. I’m thinking of the infested weaponry of warframe, the god eaters weapons of god eater, etc.
Still seems odd to me that a creature the size of a dinner plate has more HP than a bandit does. I feel like the more narrative-sound way to stat out these little nasty creatures is to give them high AC and low HP, since they're hard to hit or damage but when you do they don't have much material to absorb that damage.
Yay! Spider couple of weeks! Could we get more information on Miska the wolfspider? I'm a homebrew hero and what I know of official DnD settings I learned here on the channel. You've mentioned Miska the Wolf spider on many occasions, but usually in passing or related to something else. I'm curious about it. Throwing it out there. As ever thanks for your work.
It is a magical construct. If you can learn the method of control then nothing stopping you from doing so. It is up to you how these things were controlled and therefore only you can decide if they can be controlled and what method a player may use to do so. Is it an artifact? Is it a spell? Do they require a specific word to imprint them on someone and thus allowing a person to issue orders?
I didn't realize Spider Week was gonna be rapid fire. This will help with the stupid quarantine while my family and I get over the coof. Thank you, sir
These interesting little guys are the tabletop equivalent of the Metal Spiders from Brutal Legends (If you ever wanted a heavy metal inspired rpg use that as a base) I would make them living Metal beings (Maybe from Mechanus but got corrupted by Lolth or Orcus) and not constructs, I would give them a wide variety of species each producing a different type of metal or alloy some of which do not or cannot exist in nature. Maybe some Drow worship a particularly large one as ‘The Metal Queen’ you could give her so many immunities and her strands could have very interesting magical effects (the perfect string for that artificer bard quest giver or PC who wants the perfect instrument) really it’s a simple concept that you can take in a hundred ways, keep up the good work.
Monofilament web, a Warhammer 40k classic. I often have the cities in my DnD games string strands like this up in their skyscraper-eque cities during wartime. It can do a number on all those flying dragons, griffons, hawk riders, and unwary wizards.
Potential TPK in a box with a CR of 2. A couple of failed rolls would be all it takes and chop chop. Razorfloss bait. Do these things need to breathe? They are constructs so I'd say no, if so having the players encounter an area of razorweb under water would also be an interesting challenge, perhaps in an ancient flooded tunnel? I'm already picturing a well or oasis in the otherwise completely barren desert where magical water from a crashed city has leaked out and allowed a tiny spot of life to flourish, protected from the lifedrain aura.
I am again requesting a topic for a video that being the Athasian Dragon and Avangion. I really like your videos and their quality is excellent, I hope you continue to make them.
I can't help but imagine a social species of Steel Spider, similar to Anelosimus eximius(colonial spiders). A dungeon entirely covered in razor sharp webs where thousands of Steel Spiders work in tandem to entrap and lacerate prey to death. I'm sure there is a colony the size of a small town located somewhere on Acheron.
Here's an idea for a series of vids. "The Mighty Gluestick's Build-A-Beast Workshop" First topic: alternate genies I introduced a race of genies from the plane of radiance called "The Mashae". The other unused elemental planes would produce epic genies! New DM'S often get timid about creating new monsters
In the game I’m about to run (Using the MM system for a fantasy game setting) I have eight main elements (other four being darkness, light, ice and lightning) with genies for each after all who doesn’t want a lightning genie.
@@jacobwilson8579 if you can get access to 2nd edition content, there's the primary elemental planes, Quasi-elemental planes (element + positive or negative energy planes), and para-elemental planes (borders between the primaries), which all have their own elementals and genii.
@@jacobwilson8579 I always wanted to throw together a vacuum genie. I was thinking of calling them "Batil" the Arabic word for void. Great inhabitant for wildspace
@@AJPickett You would be just the man to help!! I trust your collection more than I trust my memories of the early 90's. I'm sure I saw them in one of the "add ins" for the 3 hole binder version of 2nd edition's monster manual. Pretty sure it wasn't the Planescape addition, but in that era (right at the end of the age of TSR). *Manual of the planes MM suplement?* If I am mistaken, then my mind has added genie-kind to the pages and pages of elementals from that addition, and I apologize for my conflating the 2. (That's a hard version of the MM to pull memories out of for me - my mind has it all scattered and mixed in with the campaigns I was running (in high school) as I got the added sections instead of one bright memory of curling up with a new hardback)
Spiders, spiders everywhere! My son hates when I introduce spiders of any kind! His reaction was hilarious. "What! Why! Why do they need to make mechanical spiders. Like the real things were not creepy enough."
"Spider weeks" Oh wonderful, my players already hate my spider photography blog! They're in the shadowfell but I can create a fresh hell for them after this
Another excellent video. On another note, the webbing as you said 'if very carefully cut and stored can be used as deadly garrote wire'. It would need a rather specialized handle to use as a garrote, lest it cut the hands of the user, I wonder how it would be made?
@@redevolution686 You maybe able to do it with Ironwood but idk if they have that in 5th. They did in 3rd and it was pretty cool as since it was wood. You could outfit a druid with medium armor and martial weapons. Without violating the whole no metal rule druids had.
Lore Librarian Ability: "Aktualy..." Using their deep well of knowledge, Lore Librarians may note minor flaws and imperfections in an opponent's technique while they are casting spells, performing skill checks, or using abilities gives them disadvatage as they are suddenly self conscious of their actions. A successful Int roll against the opposing skill check's ability score, attack roll, or magic ability score gives the Lore Librarian as sense of satisfaction and accomplishment that gives them a bonus on all skill checks for the remainder of the day. Eh, eh?
If the webbing could be woven together, I bet it could make a light armor equal to full plate defense, with 1/4 the weight. If the spiders could be used as a advanced familiars, It's Attack On Titan BABY!
@@agsilverradio2225 , not melted down, Woven. Think tightly woven steel strands making a metal cloth, like Mithril but not magical. The steel thread is so thin, it can cut limbs like a Lazer can, but stronger than iron, making it almost impossible to cut. By weaving them together you get a metal cloth that won't cut the wearer but can't be cut or pierced by nonmagical weapons.
Harvested steel spider webbings should make for an awesome upgrade to a barbed wire fence. If you can harvest it. 😉 Neverwinter nights third exansion added something similar in the form of clockwork spiders, roaches etc but thease where more tame constructs made by some Lantemese halflings. At the most they lost control of them. I guess that constructs like that could be the result of Lantanesee engineers studying steel spiders. The clockwork version didn't make sharp webs thou but could spray acid I believe, in the game at least.
Okay, first of all: how are you supposed to cut those strands, if they cut through metal weapons like it's warm Butter? I have to assume, that ordinary wire cutters wouldn't fare any better. So the only way would be magic, but where would you even find enchanted wire cutters? *_But,_* if you find a way to savely harvest and process these steel spider silk threads... I know this is extremly silly, but hear me out: _spider silk chainmail!_ Rarity Level: _very_ rare to legendary Value: 50k+ gp Same stats as a mithral chain shirt, but counts as light armor. Possibly inflicts a permanent -1 to every damage roll from non-magical melee weapons until it's repaired. *_Variant Rules:_* it counts as a light armor mithral chain shirt +2. Hits rolled above a normal chain shirts AC (13 + Dex Mod (max. 2)) but beneath the actual AC of the chain shirt inflict a permanent -1 on the damage rolls of non-magical melee weapons until it's repaired. _Example: you have a dexterity modifier of 2, so your AC would be (chain shirt 13 + 2 Dex) 15 + 2 (spider silk chainmail). Therefore, if an opponent tries to hit you and rolls a 15-17, their non-magical melee weapon would gain a -1 to all damage rolls made with it, until it's repaired._ Gritty: like the variant rule above, but the -1 is cumulative with every hit. _So in the example above, every time your opponent rolls a 15-17 to hit you, an additional -1 is added to the weapons damage, meaning that on the second such hit, that weapons damage rolls are permanently reduced by -2 until repaired, then a -3, etc._ If a non-magical melee weapons damage rolls are reduced to a point, where it would deal 0 damage due to the penalty being equal to or greater than the maximum possible damage (Example: shortsword 1d6 -6, or Rapier 1d8 -8), the weapon is ruined and can't be repaired.
A space marine and an Ork stop fighting suddenly, looking over their shoulders as if they heard something in the distance when you said “science fantasy on steroids” and then resume their battle as if nothing had ever happened.
I hate it. I can already see me walking along and the web trying to cut into my enchanted armor. I will not stand for this. I keep a special tool for situations like this. *FIRE* Especially fire breath. Gonna turn everything into a thin pool of metal.
@@hangryisangry427 a whole new twist on metal music. And any instrument that could manage those strings would be a pretty hefty club all on its own. Just face the strings toward the enemy and chop away
You should consider setting up an Amazon affiliate account. I can't speak for your other viewers, but I would buy the source book you're pulling this from through your link.
Will this is just silly now so a strand of spider silk long enough to rap around the earth once would only weigh a about 500 grams which is only a 50 grams over a pound so yha this is just silly fun now. You would most like not be able to animate it all but if you could well by game balance
At least this one is a construct. Spiders have always given me the hibbiejeebies. Atleast it's not a Blackspawn stalker. Lord knows what evil they are up too!!!
If the filament is that strong, I could imagine adventurers being sent to try to get it or a spider for the purpose of creating a silk-light suit of flexible metal armor.
I'm sure Lolth has a bunch of these creatures scuttling around the decks of her spider ship! XD
Perfect fit.
But if Loth recognises them as real spiders I do not know. Maybe a drow could be forgiven for stepping on one of them. Unless it is one of those on said spider ship of couse.
Yay, a new AJ Pickett video!!!!
Everybody's gung-ho, until the spiders start wearing plate mail.
This makes me think of the chrome spiders from Brutal Legend.
must be my birthday 2 spider vids back to back
Me and my pet rust monster would like their location.
There's this running gag in my campaign where I find any excuse to shoehorn in spiders since several of my players hate spiders. This is perfect. I need more spiders AJ!!!!!
How to turn Gust into a lethal cantrip: Just add a handful of Razor Web.
Injecting a razor filament? Sounds like the harlequins kiss from 40k.
Perhaps the steel spider were created to make silk for better steel cables or even some kind of tough but durable and flexible fabric that could be used for armor or a portable pop out Shield? Also these would make a great familiar for a deep imaskari!🧙♂️
Every time I nearly have a panic attack at the idea of an above-average-sized spider, I always think back to the absolute nightmares that are D&D spiders and remember I’m lucky not to live in a universe where spiders get big and/or particularly dangerous.
On the plus side most really big spiders have little desire to get near people and are just as likely to run away. It is the little one you need to worry about.
"in the theme of spider week, well it going to be more like a couple weeks..."
Why do you hate us
Fun note about spiders . If a spiders was the size of a football. Most animals would be food for them .
Oddly this reminds me of 2 monster i made a rust mouse and steel cobra.
Rust mouse was made to eat metal ( mostly iron) to escape a prison.
The cobra is what happen when you feed them to a snake. It s lose it venom but get a shocking bite and cutting tail
This is why you're the lore expert AJ. You can take a monster with hardly any lore and expand it into a full storyline.
These will definitely be making an appearance in my campaign. Im going to force them to use the body of one of the spiders to handle the webbing, anything else will get cut
Omg they are the Metal Spiders from Brutal Legend, they spin guitar strings
*pokes head out* Oh neat
Oh this would be fun for a warforge swarmkeeper ranger.
On a side note. With enough research, would be a deadly upgrade to the web spell. Name it steel web. Same effect as the web spell but the webbing has the properties of the steel webbing and effects from the steel spider.
I'd say 4th or 5th level spell.
Clean up on isle nine!
That sounds like the Cyrax net brutality waiting to happen.
@@TheKing-qz9wd didn't think about that, but yea.
Spider week? And at the same time that the group I'm DMing is heading towards an undwerdark drow settlement. Your timing is impeccable! Thanks AJ!
How do I not remember this video? Is it possible that I’ve never listened to this one? I’ll make a history check.
So there are like a less evil clockwork horror/ Retriever metal spider? Also excellent video!
Nothing getts the party more pumped up than being showered by displacerbeastgutts, turning the ambush completely around and making them stand still and realize that they are already in the middle of a lair made of such webbings.
Alwhays think twice befor long resting in the first room of an ancient tomb.
Perfect.
I'd seriously like to see the occasional themed week just like this one.
These videos are making me want to make a spider world
8:06 I just realized that was made of LEGOs. That’s a seriously impressive build, looks genuinely mechanical.
is the foundation containing these because someone really needs to contain these
Saw the title and thought it was going to be about the 2e spelljammer mechanical spider things, clockwork horrors.
These things are like toys compared to the Clockwork Horrors.
@@AJPickett Can U Make An Episode on it
@@Alexthealright
I thought he did.
@@darkwater72 your right
Sounds awasome to use on a intresting party
Steel Spiders....a very terrifying concept as their fleshy cousins are already pesky to deal with! Wouldnt want to venture into a nest of them before its too late!
Lure the obnoxius lair worth of flesy spiders into the lair of the steel ones. You get rid of the fleshy ones and the steel ones are now freshly fed and more likely to pass by.
Spiderweek? Weaver! Shout out to Wold of Darkness RPG! "Dr. Himizu is a pig!"
Thanks for the years of inspiration I’m 19 and I’ve been listening to you videos since I was 12 my great grandmother got me into dungeons and dragons and magic the gathering but she passed away two months ago and your videos bring me back to playing d&d with my Grammy thank you for helping me cope with my loss of an amazing DM and a even better grandmother.
My Gran bought me the red box basic D&D set when I was a kid. She thought $11 was very expensive, but she got it for me. Literally changed my life.
Same here but she only ran first and second edition campaigns she left me all of her campaigns that she ran and all the ones she didn’t they sitting in a box till me and my fiancé can get our own place
I’ve never played any of the other editions just cause her eyes were bad an as she put it if it ain’t broke don’t fix it
@@puffdragon5447 damn... I've never wanted to see a box of campaign notes more in my life.
I’d have to do some digging but when I find them I will get a hold of you 👌👌
I am playing Numenera for years and I find it fascinating that since Arcana of the Ancients came out the creatures and world are getting the attention of famous monster ecologist like you. It is truly a fasciniating setting. And while the core game usually thinks of the players to be humans (which is disapointing, considering the focus of the weird and wonderful), with the right extentions you can even play as an immortal octopus like I prefer to do.
I played a session as Joe Pineapples, the Atomic-Biological-Chemical (ABC) war robot sniper assassin specialist, a very cool character for old 2000AD comics "ABC Warriors".
Heh, living metal spiders, spinning webs of an unknown metal wire. Yeah, that would be creepy. I remember once we grew some tomato plants and I decided to check on them one day. Not only were there spider webs but some of the biggest spiders I have ever seen for a place that gets a cold winter. Their leg span may not have been hand sized but it was a near thing.
I'm abandoning those tomatoes. Not worth it.
If one were to succeed at containing them, they would make for quite a significant source of revenue, considering the high price their wire 'web strands' would easily fetch, should one 'milk' them regularly. I can think of several interesting applications for it...
"Milking the spider" sounds filthy... Because it is. 💦
Milking anything is filthy. Makes you wonder what pervert first invented the practice.
Great video AJ. I wonder how these critters would interact with my homebrew Clockwork Spiders. Webs are almost the same. They are severely warped spider flesh golems infused with a refined adamantine clockwork exoskeleton. The flesh golem inside operates it, does the digestion, repair the clockwork with the secretions, refill the metal web & venom sacs with secretions, and constantly winds up the clockwork parts. Their venom is in a bunch of tiny specialized sacks that mix at the moment of biting, different kinds of acid based upon the target. They are very noisy when moving and are far more agile than they look and sound... they wobble and vibrate when moving. They are the size of small cats. I was inspired to make them from an 80s sci-fi movie "Runaway". They are about as intelligent as pygmy monkeys. They tend to just live life guarding the area they are in and eating whatever it takes to maintain their bodies, usually their own parts that wear down or fall off. Ironically, that makes them always in pristine condition when met. They innately fear Rust Monsters who can just walk through their webbing and turn them into a useless golem of chopped up spider bits on top of a pile of rust with a mild brushing. They have tiny drills and hooks that look like hairs on their legs that allow them to move on their webbing and walls. They do "get tired". They are very fast and agile but rely upon how much energy can be wound up in their springs. The innards need 10 minutes of winding to get 1 minute of combat fast action... non-combat level actions do not get spent faster than wound up... and non-actions get to store up the energy. So, if you get these critters to move their full potential for their wind-up time limit of an hour, they are almost paralyzed until they get a chance to rest somewhere to wind up for more fast-able ability. If pressured to move that fast for that long, they will usually try to casually walk away until they can hide to store up energy.
What do you think of the interaction? Both would see each other as food at first. Both are brighter than the average critter. Both have similar capabilities. Steel Spiders never run out of the ability to move fast. Clockwork Spiders are not only hard to damage but can take a lot of hits for their size and do a damaging leap-charge upon their targets. You think they would do a war of attrition to the point of one side eliminating the other (who would win if you'd guess), come to respect each other's territory, or find a way to work in symbiosis... much to the disdain of the adventurers who find them?
I'm starting to think that AD&D 5th Edition would be really compatible with my Clockwork beings and items.
Sounds neat
@@lorekeeper685 I'd love to give the stats to a couple veteran DMs and listen to them discuss how Steel and Clockwork spiders would interact with each other. My personal theory is a scuffle and eventual symbiosis, unlike actual spiders which are cannibals until the urge to mate comes into play. The Steel-o's being the fast and stealthy troopers, the Clock-y's being akin to the armored division.
@@That80sGuy1972 I would also go for symbiosis, especially if a good aligned supercomputer or construct (perhaps created by an ancient civilization of wise druid/artificers that had a close connection with nature and the more spiritual aspects of life) that retains the sticky webbing as that is very helpful. Perhaps then they can unify as an actual species that is part of an ecosystem and usually more helpful than not. They probably would hate clockwork horrors.
@@andresmarrero8666 I can see that.
Wires, like the webbing of this spider, are one of my top three favorite fantasy weapons. From hitman’s garrot to cyberpunk’s monowire, and every anime villain in between.
In that case, what would be your other two favourites, if I may ask?
@@Harrowed2TheMind so, they are more like categories than specific weapons. Switch weapons/transforming weapons, like the ones from Bloodborne, and organic, living, weaponry.
@@epiccthulu Like chimeras with Demogorgon?
@@nicolaezenoaga9756 chimera as a living weapon? Not exactly. I’m thinking of the infested weaponry of warframe, the god eaters weapons of god eater, etc.
One step closer to a Brütal Legend campaign setting
Spider web that actually does damage is terrifying. I'm now also reminded of these spider monsters from the movie The Mist, which had acidic web.
Yesss
Armor smiths dream if you have a fabric of the stuff, you get it from a three fingered weaver.
Drow would come up with clever uses for these
100%
Still seems odd to me that a creature the size of a dinner plate has more HP than a bandit does. I feel like the more narrative-sound way to stat out these little nasty creatures is to give them high AC and low HP, since they're hard to hit or damage but when you do they don't have much material to absorb that damage.
Anyone remember the old movie Runaway with Tom Selleck(spelling?)?
Features small spider robots that inject acid. Classic movie :)
Great movie.
@@AJPickett so bizar, predicted everything from mobile phones, tablets, voice control, drones :)
Sir AJ Pickett I salute and give thanks yet again you have indulged us with your knowledge and thoughts in the D&D Lore
Spider week!?! Dear god why... You are lucky I like you.
😅
"Dear god, why.... You're lucky I like you."
If I had a dollar . ...
Definitely using this one
Yay! Spider couple of weeks!
Could we get more information on Miska the wolfspider? I'm a homebrew hero and what I know of official DnD settings I learned here on the channel. You've mentioned Miska the Wolf spider on many occasions, but usually in passing or related to something else. I'm curious about it.
Throwing it out there.
As ever thanks for your work.
This is a great trap monster.
Only the best for you sir, we aim to please.
They inject monofilament wire into your body? That’s messed up.
On that note, could you have one as a companion/familiar?
Hand the player a remote control. :)
It is a magical construct. If you can learn the method of control then nothing stopping you from doing so. It is up to you how these things were controlled and therefore only you can decide if they can be controlled and what method a player may use to do so. Is it an artifact? Is it a spell? Do they require a specific word to imprint them on someone and thus allowing a person to issue orders?
Summon construct?
I prefer the term “Metalantula”.
NOBODY CARES DR BRIGHT! *slaps articles out of hands*
That's my Goth Tech Metal Boomer Dubstep band name
Dr. Bright is not allowed to rename steel spiders to Metalantula
Been using this book for the past year. Really appreciating their works.
I didn't realize Spider Week was gonna be rapid fire. This will help with the stupid quarantine while my family and I get over the coof. Thank you, sir
Had to get a vid out before I am away from the office for a few days.
Thanks.
These interesting little guys are the tabletop equivalent of the Metal Spiders from Brutal Legends (If you ever wanted a heavy metal inspired rpg use that as a base) I would make them living Metal beings (Maybe from Mechanus but got corrupted by Lolth or Orcus) and not constructs, I would give them a wide variety of species each producing a different type of metal or alloy some of which do not or cannot exist in nature. Maybe some Drow worship a particularly large one as ‘The Metal Queen’ you could give her so many immunities and her strands could have very interesting magical effects (the perfect string for that artificer bard quest giver or PC who wants the perfect instrument) really it’s a simple concept that you can take in a hundred ways, keep up the good work.
Metal neural fibres that play psionic tunes!
Monofilament web, a Warhammer 40k classic.
I often have the cities in my DnD games string strands like this up in their skyscraper-eque cities during wartime. It can do a number on all those flying dragons, griffons, hawk riders, and unwary wizards.
*takes notes*
My man aj is on a spider kick ;)
Potential TPK in a box with a CR of 2. A couple of failed rolls would be all it takes and chop chop. Razorfloss bait.
Do these things need to breathe? They are constructs so I'd say no, if so having the players encounter an area of razorweb under water would also be an interesting challenge, perhaps in an ancient flooded tunnel? I'm already picturing a well or oasis in the otherwise completely barren desert where magical water from a crashed city has leaked out and allowed a tiny spot of life to flourish, protected from the lifedrain aura.
Your cruel and terrifying imagination is the stuff that makes pc's fear the dark.
I am again requesting a topic for a video that being the Athasian Dragon and Avangion. I really like your videos and their quality is excellent, I hope you continue to make them.
I will never stop
@@AJPickett the pact has been witnessed and noterized
I can't help but imagine a social species of Steel Spider, similar to Anelosimus eximius(colonial spiders). A dungeon entirely covered in razor sharp webs where thousands of Steel Spiders work in tandem to entrap and lacerate prey to death. I'm sure there is a colony the size of a small town located somewhere on Acheron.
I think the only way these steel spiders can reproduce Ethier through consumption or by a queen steel spider of sorts
God I love your videos, I've seen some of them more than once
*bows*
"Hey goggle play AJ picklett steal spider on Spiderscreen"
Make friends with a few rust monsters and the battle will be over before it even begins? Lol
Spider week? But scary stuff is for October, 9 months away!
Here's an idea for a series of vids.
"The Mighty Gluestick's Build-A-Beast Workshop"
First topic: alternate genies
I introduced a race of genies from the plane of radiance called "The Mashae". The other unused elemental planes would produce epic genies!
New DM'S often get timid about creating new monsters
In the game I’m about to run (Using the MM system for a fantasy game setting) I have eight main elements (other four being darkness, light, ice and lightning) with genies for each after all who doesn’t want a lightning genie.
@@jacobwilson8579 if you can get access to 2nd edition content, there's the primary elemental planes, Quasi-elemental planes (element + positive or negative energy planes), and para-elemental planes (borders between the primaries), which all have their own elementals and genii.
They do?
@@jacobwilson8579
I always wanted to throw together a vacuum genie.
I was thinking of calling them "Batil" the Arabic word for void. Great inhabitant for wildspace
@@AJPickett You would be just the man to help!! I trust your collection more than I trust my memories of the early 90's.
I'm sure I saw them in one of the "add ins" for the 3 hole binder version of 2nd edition's monster manual. Pretty sure it wasn't the Planescape addition, but in that era (right at the end of the age of TSR). *Manual of the planes MM suplement?*
If I am mistaken, then my mind has added genie-kind to the pages and pages of elementals from that addition, and I apologize for my conflating the 2.
(That's a hard version of the MM to pull memories out of for me - my mind has it all scattered and mixed in with the campaigns I was running (in high school) as I got the added sections instead of one bright memory of curling up with a new hardback)
Spiders, spiders everywhere! My son hates when I introduce spiders of any kind! His reaction was hilarious. "What! Why! Why do they need to make mechanical spiders. Like the real things were not creepy enough."
You have a smart son
what a thing to find on the web :)
Badaboom tish!
pull the legs off a spider - Ancient Drow Curse phrase.
Learn to smell me- me
Great stuff Aj! I would love to see a vid about Belial, Fierna, and the Fourth level of the Nine Hells.
Is the spider series going to include the Clockwork Horrors from Spelljammer?
Hmmm I'll give them an outside chance.
"Spider weeks"
Oh wonderful, my players already hate my spider photography blog! They're in the shadowfell but I can create a fresh hell for them after this
Time to figure out how to torment my player that has arachnophobia.
Another excellent video.
On another note, the webbing as you said 'if very carefully cut and stored can be used as deadly garrote wire'. It would need a rather specialized handle to use as a garrote, lest it cut the hands of the user, I wonder how it would be made?
If I was DMing I would ask the pc to describe how they make the garret and set a DC based on how plausible it sounds. They could use tinkerer’s tools
@@reptilewithsadhumaneyes That sounds like fun, and probably the most practical way to do it.
Adamantium handles with very precise use if fire magic to spot weld the wire on.
True, most if not all other metals would be useless and definitely all sorts of wood unless there where some sorts that I hadn't heard of.
@@redevolution686 You maybe able to do it with Ironwood but idk if they have that in 5th. They did in 3rd and it was pretty cool as since it was wood. You could outfit a druid with medium armor and martial weapons. Without violating the whole no metal rule druids had.
Lore Librarian Ability: "Aktualy..." Using their deep well of knowledge, Lore Librarians may note minor flaws and imperfections in an opponent's technique while they are casting spells, performing skill checks, or using abilities gives them disadvatage as they are suddenly self conscious of their actions. A successful Int roll against the opposing skill check's ability score, attack roll, or magic ability score gives the Lore Librarian as sense of satisfaction and accomplishment that gives them a bonus on all skill checks for the remainder of the day.
Eh, eh?
Getting meta, aren't we?
@@TheKing-qz9wd Eh, I was inspired.
and thank you for entertainment
Still hoping to see a video on Deathlocks!!!
If the webbing could be woven together, I bet it could make a light armor equal to full plate defense, with 1/4 the weight.
If the spiders could be used as a advanced familiars, It's Attack On Titan BABY!
Maybe more like chainmail armor, unless you melt it down an reuse the meterial.
@@agsilverradio2225 , not melted down, Woven. Think tightly woven steel strands making a metal cloth, like Mithril but not magical.
The steel thread is so thin, it can cut limbs like a Lazer can, but stronger than iron, making it almost impossible to cut. By weaving them together you get a metal cloth that won't cut the wearer but can't be cut or pierced by nonmagical weapons.
Harvested steel spider webbings should make for an awesome upgrade to a barbed wire fence. If you can harvest it. 😉
Neverwinter nights third exansion added something similar in the form of clockwork spiders, roaches etc but thease where more tame constructs made by some Lantemese halflings. At the most they lost control of them. I guess that constructs like that could be the result of Lantanesee engineers studying steel spiders. The clockwork version didn't make sharp webs thou but could spray acid I believe, in the game at least.
MORE SPIDERZZZZZ
Living metal...where have i head of that before?
2nd ad&d monster : Living Steel
One of my favorite monsters from yesteryear.
@@DracosDiabolis i was thinking Necrons but yours works too
good video AJ
So I assume that a fly swatter (or a phone book) won't suffice?
Negative...well, a rolled up nether scroll. Maybe.
Admantium plate boots to step on them? Just sabatons will not do since those only protect the upside of the foot.
@@michaelpettersson4919 now we're talkin
Ghost in the shell anyone?
Also as big as hounds.
Okay, first of all: how are you supposed to cut those strands, if they cut through metal weapons like it's warm Butter? I have to assume, that ordinary wire cutters wouldn't fare any better. So the only way would be magic, but where would you even find enchanted wire cutters?
*_But,_* if you find a way to savely harvest and process these steel spider silk threads... I know this is extremly silly, but hear me out: _spider silk chainmail!_
Rarity Level: _very_ rare to legendary
Value: 50k+ gp
Same stats as a mithral chain shirt, but counts as light armor.
Possibly inflicts a permanent -1 to every damage roll from non-magical melee weapons until it's repaired.
*_Variant Rules:_* it counts as a light armor mithral chain shirt +2. Hits rolled above a normal chain shirts AC (13 + Dex Mod (max. 2)) but beneath the actual AC of the chain shirt inflict a permanent -1 on the damage rolls of non-magical melee weapons until it's repaired.
_Example: you have a dexterity modifier of 2, so your AC would be (chain shirt 13 + 2 Dex) 15 + 2 (spider silk chainmail). Therefore, if an opponent tries to hit you and rolls a 15-17, their non-magical melee weapon would gain a -1 to all damage rolls made with it, until it's repaired._
Gritty: like the variant rule above, but the -1 is cumulative with every hit.
_So in the example above, every time your opponent rolls a 15-17 to hit you, an additional -1 is added to the weapons damage, meaning that on the second such hit, that weapons damage rolls are permanently reduced by -2 until repaired, then a -3, etc._
If a non-magical melee weapons damage rolls are reduced to a point, where it would deal 0 damage due to the penalty being equal to or greater than the maximum possible damage (Example: shortsword 1d6 -6, or Rapier 1d8 -8), the weapon is ruined and can't be repaired.
A space marine and an Ork stop fighting suddenly, looking over their shoulders as if they heard something in the distance when you said “science fantasy on steroids” and then resume their battle as if nothing had ever happened.
Spider week but he says it will be like a couple of weeks so I will call this AJ's Age of the Spider.
I'll call it Nope Month.
@@Mortablunt hahahaha
I hate it. I can already see me walking along and the web trying to cut into my enchanted armor. I will not stand for this. I keep a special tool for situations like this.
*FIRE*
Especially fire breath. Gonna turn everything into a thin pool of metal.
Can warforged be druids? A warforged with a nest of these inside as familiars would be hella cool
They totally can
Or a warforged bard who uses the metal web as lute strings that they pick with adamantine or mithril picks.
@@hangryisangry427
That's clever actually
@@hangryisangry427 a whole new twist on metal music. And any instrument that could manage those strings would be a pretty hefty club all on its own. Just face the strings toward the enemy and chop away
buncha tinks scurrying around
spider week I like the sound of that
Since these constructs are small
Is it possible for a player to use them for scouting missions and also use them a tracking device.
Sounds like a plan :)
Bit of camo paint depending on where to go
Yes.
I suppose some elemental spirit and copule souls would give it enough power to last until they break
You should consider setting up an Amazon affiliate account. I can't speak for your other viewers, but I would buy the source book you're pulling this from through your link.
Amazon is a prick to deal with.
@@AJPickett Fair enough.
Hmmm could you animate the razor web?
Sure.
Will this is just silly now so a strand of spider silk long enough to rap around the earth once would only weigh a about 500 grams which is only a 50 grams over a pound so yha this is just silly fun now. You would most like not be able to animate it all but if you could well by game balance
Is there a link to get you credit for turning us on to this book? Or a discount code?
2 in a day, oh you treat me
Hello Aj you should make some community stories on youtube Iv head that the algorithm is busted and will boost you exposer
Nice!
At least this one is a construct. Spiders have always given me the hibbiejeebies. Atleast it's not a Blackspawn stalker. Lord knows what evil they are up too!!!
Oh, I'm just gettin started!
Nice video, but spider week?
Yes, Lolth week
Like shark week.
Ooh I like these nice
Woowo
Me a dm who loves to use spiders
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