When a silk-spider brood loses its matron, the eldest daughter devours her rivals and swells into a loomtyrant — a spider the size of a shelf-tower whose web becomes a strangling city and whose children number in the hundreds. Whole stretches of the Bracketways are abandoned to them.
- CR
- 7 (XP 2,900)
- Type
- Monstrosity
- AC
- 16
- HP
- 161
- Habitat
- Mycelial Deep
Huge Monstrosity, Unaligned
AC 16 Initiative +2 (12)
HP 161 (14d12 + 70)
Speed 40 ft., climb 40 ft.
Skills Perception +5, Stealth +8
Senses Darkvision 120 ft.; Passive Perception 15
Languages None
CR 7 (XP 2,900; PB +3)
Traits
Spider Climb. The loomtyrant can climb difficult surfaces, including along ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Web Sense. While in contact with a web, the loomtyrant knows the exact location of any other creature in contact with the same web.
Web Walker. The loomtyrant ignores movement restrictions caused by webs.
Actions
Multiattack. The loomtyrant makes two Bite attacks.
Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +8, reach 10 ft. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) Piercing damage, and the target makes a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. Failure: 7 (2d6) Poison damage, and the target has the Poisoned condition for 1 minute. Success: Half damage only.
Ensnaring Web (Recharge 5–6). Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 15, each creature in a 30-foot Cube. Failure: The target has the Restrained condition until the web is destroyed (AC 12; HP 25; Vulnerability to Fire damage; Immunity to Poison and Psychic damage). Success: The target's Speed is halved until the start of its next turn.
Bonus Actions
Skitter. The loomtyrant moves up to half its Speed without provoking Opportunity Attacks.