Giant Spider

The Giant Spider is the strongest common variety of Spiders, mostly encountered during Baldur's Gate with only a few encounters during Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.
==Description==
They are almost always encountered within the depths of a forest, particularly during waylaid encounters between such areas, and are distinguishable from their brethren by way of a green body with grey legs - pointedly different from the more powerful Phase Spider.
==Gameplay==
Like most spiders, they can poison their enemies and are immune to Web. They are essentially a step up from the Huge Spider, while not yet evolving any special abilities often found among the higher-tiered spiders. They also have a relatively low mobs-per-spawn rate, with a high level party only ever encountering as many as two, comparable in this regard to the Cave Bear or Wraith Spider while pointedly being worth significantly less experience than either.
==Summoned==
Giant spiders can be summoned by a 7th or 8th level Mage casting the 4th level Wizard spell Spider Spawn.
==Locations==
===Baldur's Gate===
*Fourth Cloakwood
*High Hedge
*Peldvale
*Second Cloakwood
*Spider Wood
===Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn===
*Druid Grove
*Lower Tombs
*Pai'Na's Lair
*Underdark
*Ust Natha
===Baldur's Gate II Enhanced Edition: Shadows of Amn===
*Tomb of the Unproved
===Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal===
*Sendai's Enclave
==Trivia==
* The offical website for the original game, now archived, had – in addition to some combat-related statistics – the following information about giant spiders:Spiders are aggressive predators, dwelling both above and below ground. They have eight legs and eight eyes with bulbous abdomens and thin sleek legs.The size was given as 8 to 12 feet in diameter.
==Visuals==
===GIFs===
Interplay Baldur's Gate Animation Giant spider.gif|Promotional animation
===Gallery===
Interplay Baldur's Gate Screenshot Giant spider.jpg|Promotional screenshot
==External links==
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