{"id":125,"date":"2015-10-13T04:30:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T04:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sunderedblade.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2015-10-13T04:30:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T04:30:33","slug":"halloween-monster-the-spring-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sunderedblade.com\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Monster &#8211; the Spring Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently working on a short Halloween booklet for Swords and Wizardry\/OSR Compatible games. \u00a0It&#8217;ll have some Halloween themed monsters, magic items, and a short adventure to tie them together. \u00a0I wanted to take a moment to share a first draft of one of the monsters. \u00a0The illustration is by Sarah, and is also a draft. \u00a0As you can see below, this is going to be a very, very, deeply serious book&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunderedblade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Popup-spider-rough.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-126\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunderedblade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Popup-spider-rough.jpeg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"BOING!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunderedblade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Popup-spider-rough.jpeg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunderedblade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Popup-spider-rough.jpeg?resize=150%2C113 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunderedblade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Popup-spider-rough.jpeg?w=600 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>SPRING SPIDER<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Hit Dice:<\/strong> 3<br \/>\n<strong>Armor Class:<\/strong> 6 [13]<br \/>\n<strong>Attacks:<\/strong> 1 slam (1d6) or 1 bite (1d6)<br \/>\n<strong>Special:<\/strong> Bounces, knocks down, immune to sleep, charm, and hold<br \/>\n<strong>Move:<\/strong> 9<br \/>\n<strong>Saving Throw:<\/strong> 14<br \/>\n<strong>Alignment:<\/strong> Neutrality<br \/>\n<strong>Challenge Level\/XP:<\/strong> 3\/60<\/p>\n<p>These constructed creatures look like man-sized spiders with a large spring sticking out below the body. Since their legs aren\u2019t movable, they use the spring as a method of movement, bouncing from place to place. When attacking, the spring spider bounces at its target. On a hit, the target must make a saving throw or be knocked over by the force of the spider landing on it. If the target fails its saving throw, the spider may make an additional bite attack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spring Spider:<\/strong> HD 3; AC 6 [13]; Atk 1 slam (1d6) or 1 bite (1d6); Move 9; Save 14; AL N; CL\/XP 3\/60; Special: Bounces, knocks down, immune to sleep, charm, and hold<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently working on a short Halloween booklet for Swords and Wizardry\/OSR Compatible games. \u00a0It&#8217;ll have some Halloween themed monsters, magic items, and a short adventure to tie them together. \u00a0I wanted to take a moment to share a first draft of one of the monsters. \u00a0The illustration is by Sarah, and is also a &#8230; <a title=\"Halloween Monster &#8211; the Spring Spider\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sunderedblade.com\/?p=125\" aria-label=\"Read more about Halloween Monster &#8211; the Spring Spider\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swords-and-wizardry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunderedblade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Popup-spider-rough.jpeg?fit=600%2C450","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p63gSh-21","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sunderedblade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sunderedblade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sunderedblade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sunderedblade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sunderedblade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sunderedblade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"http:\/\/www.sunderedblade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sunderedblade.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sunderedblade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sunderedblade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sunderedblade.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}