Giant spider

Giant spiders are a large variant of the spider species.
== Background ==
They typically appear in small numbers, but have been known to gather into larger groups for ambushes. Their primary ability allows them to throw their webbing, causing the victim to become encased and immobilized unless they pass a resistance check. Spiders can also use the Overwhelm ability, wherewith the spider tackles its victim, repeatedly inflicting physical damage and stunning the target for the remainder of the attack.
Nature of the Beast
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== Strategy ==
The party members should support each other whenever spiders arrive. If you end up apart, a spider's web or Overwhelm attack can incapacitate a lone companion. When webbed, the companions who aren't trapped should defend their comrade. Against an Overwhelm attack, everyone else should immediately focus on the charging spider to kill it before it kills your companion.
Both their Web and Overwhelm abilities are quite hard to resist, particularly the latter which keeps the target knocked down and taking serious damage for a few seconds (while additionally vulnerable to damage from other sources). Although Spiders use their abilities relatively rarely and chaotically, they sometimes happen to spontaneously chain them in a nasty way. Two inconspicuous Spiders chaining two Overwhelms in a row with a Web in between can even kill a lower-level warrior in the lower levels, whilst not giving him a split second to do anything at all. It is recommend to quicksave prior to going up against these creepy-crawlies.
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== Variations ==
:Spiderling
:Thaig crawler
:Giant spiderling
:Venomous spider
:Poison spider
:Poisonous spider
:Giant spider
:Giant poisonous spider
:Fade-Touched spider
:Monstrous spider
:Queen spider
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== Trivia ==
* Dwarves who live underground have domesticated giant spiders and raise them as food animals, similar to how surface-dwellers farm goats and cows. In particular, the legs, which are not unlike crab legs, are eaten. However, procuring spider legs on the surface is quite difficult, and the export demand from Orzammar for this product is very low.Dragon Age: The Official Cookbook: Tastes of Thedas, p. 15
* Fried young giant spiders is a dwarven dish which involves frying the legs of young giant spiders and serving them alongside an alcohol-based sauce. The sauce and the specific alcohol used to cook it vary between every eating establishment. Their precise recipes are well-guarded secrets, as due to the fierce "Orzammar's Best Sauce" contest, rival contenders deviously scheme with the aim of obtaining them.Dragon Age: The Official Cookbook: Tastes of Thedas, p. 15
* The dwarves also roast giant spider legs for consumption. Domesticated spiders are usually used for this.Dragon Age (tabletop RPG) Dragon Age Game Master's Kit: Buried Pasts p. 19
* Some sources suggest that giant spiders were once raised by dwarves as a form of biological control for the many species of large bats that were endemic to the thaigs and Deep Roads. However, as the thaigs fell and the Deep Roads were abandoned, their populations exploded as a result of a plentiful new food source: darkspawn. Today they have spread throughout the Deep Roads and even spilled into caverns and forests on the surface.Dragon Age (tabletop RPG), Core Rulebook, pp. 281-282
== See also ==
:Corrupted spiderling
:Corrupted spider
:Corrupted spider queen
== Gallery ==
Giant Spider Inquisition.png|A giant spider in Dragon Age: Inquisition
Fade-Touched Spider.png|Fade-Touched spider encountered in the Frostback Basin
Creature-Corrupted Spider.jpg|Corrupted spider in Dragon Age II
== References ==
Category:Creatures
Category:Dragon Age Journeys creatures
Category:Dragon Age: Origins creatures
Category:A Tale of Orzammar creatures
Category:Dragon Age (tabletop RPG) creatures
Category:Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening creatures
Category:Dragon Age II creatures
Category:Legacy creatures
Category:Dragon Age: Inquisition creatures
Category:Jaws of Hakkon creatures
Category:Spiders