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>Giant spiders are standard RPG enemies
Could anyone honestly look into these big, goofy eyes and be intimidated? Giant spider animal companions when?
Being too adorable to kill is part of their plan.
>>46376946
Those big goofy eyes are for judging distance before it pounces on its prey.
Jumping spiders are among the most aggressive hunters of any spider sub-species. If they were scaled up RPG style monsters, they'd be fucking TERRIFYING!
You would never see them coming. Able to leap hundreds of feet, moving at falcon-like speeds. You'd be dead from the impact before they even sank their fangs in.
>>46376946
Yeah, but it's usually not jumping spiders that are the monsters. Typically they're more things like tarantulas or huntsman spiders.
>>46377077
Or portia spiders. Those things are scary smart, about as smart as a cat with a brain a thousand times smaller. Scale them up to human size and they'd be geniuses. They already show complex hunting behavior that takes advantage of lures and mimicry to trick their prey, a larger one could easily fill the same conceptual role as things like skinwalkers.
>>46376946
Drow domesticate them & that's a player race. So they're technically already animal companions.
>>46377454
>Or portia spiders.
Don't ever do that again. I googled 'em and they look like fucking nightmare creatures.
>>46377583
Fuck, you weren't kidding.
Kill all spiders. Species war now!
>>46377583
Yeah. Now imagine one the size of a horse that's capable of perfectly imitating human voices and behavior, and uses that to lure us away from safety so it can eat us.
Spiders are cool and useful for controlling pest populations
>>46377627
This is how get ants.
>>46377583
>>46377627
It's cute though.
>>46377647
>>46377647
>>This is how get ants.
So giant ants control the giant pest problem.
>>46377647
>This is how get ants
How else will I feed my giant horned lizards?
>>46377767
>>46377767
I meant killing spiders leads to the increase of more problematic insects, similar to how a dearth of wolves causes deer populations to boom.
Do you mean giant spiders help control the giant pest problem? Ants/Formians are part of the problem, and spiders are that solution.
And the Dire Birds or Rocs help control the giant spiders and other large insects.
>>46377859
Fucking Harvestmen shitposter
>>46377859
>>46377767
Someone needs to shop a really depressing screen on that monitor, like 4chan next to a bunch of spider porn.
>>46378006
>>46376946
Well, the Silver Claw Shift campaign had a spider mount. Pic not related.
>>46377022
Is getting caught in a spider's web part of anyone's plans?
>>46378231
If I pull those webbing off, will it hurt?
>>46378231
The spider's.
>>46378320
>Got two nasty bites on my back as a kid
>Large histamine reaction
>Caused me to break out in one hell of a rash on the top of my back
>Due to incessant itching, scabs developed before medicine could get rid of the rash
>Wind up with scars
>Delight in the murder of spiders
Fuck them. I go out of my way to kill spiders. Tiny or giant, biting assholes.
>>46378345
Spider's with a mutualistic relationship with frogs.
>>46377894
That is a cute spider.
Peacock spiders use their colourful tail and dancing to attract mates but scaled up to human size they would be used to entice and hypnotize wandering adventurers allowing the spiders to lead them to their deaths. Many an adventurer has been taken by these sirens of the forest, their bones now rot beneath the webbed cocoons of other humans whom wait for the spiders to liquefy their insides and drain them until they are naught but dried husks
It's not about the eyes, it's what's right in front of them.
>>46378369
>>46378357
>have woken up with black widows on me more than once
>never been bitten
they can smell your aggression mang
>>46378504
more likely he was a dirty kid and either had a random skin infection or was wearing clothing that was left on the floor and it was an accident.
Unless they saw the spider or felt the bite, it's more than likely not an actual spider bite.
The tales told of the trap door spiders should be one of warning to the villages on the edge of the forests. An infestation usually begins with people, mainly children disappearing as they wander through the trees, next farmers will be awoken to the sounds of their flock screaming in panic, upon venturing outside they find that a number of the animals are gone without a trace. This will continue night after night until the animals either escape in wild terror or are wiped out. Then the farmers will disappear. It is at this point where if the settlement does nothing they will never escape. Caravans will be wiped out in violent night ambushes. The outlying houses will have their foundations sapped by tunnels the size of a man and their inhabitants dragged screaming to their deaths and so it will go until the town starves. Once the population is suitably weakened the tunnelers will attack. Forgoing their ambushes they will march as on on the town, the starved citizens will offer little resistance and little sustenance for the eight legged daemons.
Any unlucky traveler who wanders into that town will find nothing but deserted buildings, unless they check the basements. That is where they find the townspeople. In crypts filled with bones of men, women, children, and animals. If the traveler is lucky they will not disturb the fine webs laid out in those rooms for underneath those bones in hundreds of tunnels lays a nest, and little ones whose hunger is as endless as their number
>>46378647
That spider is adorable
>>46378820
Huntsman spiders in this setting are the equivalent of domesticated wolves. Used more as guard spiders but the wild ones will still tear you apart
There's little else in the world I have a more visceral and instinctual hatred and fear of than spiders, but it's wholly dependent on size.
Little tiny specks of nothing dust spiders? No problem. They can get to the size of a fingernail and I will happily do my best to get them outside because they'll only starve in here.
But once I can start discerning anatomy, my absolute feverish terror kicks in. I live in Ireland, and our spiders don't get big. Or at least, they never used to. In the past few years I've seen legitimate fucking monsters in my home I thought didn't EXIST over here, shit as big as my palm and just thinking about it makes my fucking skin crawl.
>>46378281
It would be extremelyliberating.
>>46380277
You're anAmericanguy.
>>46378357
>Batman - The Animated Series opening.gif
>>46377767
>>46377890
>kill all the pests
>everything that eats them dies
>etc. etc. until the only species left on earth are domesticated mammals and honey bees
Remind me again why Silent Spring isn't the ultimate utopia? Birds are just fags who shit on everything nice anyway.
>>46379669
>Drow_Animal_Companion_Bard.gif
>>46377673
1. Why does the spider have a hat
2. Why does the farthest left rock have an eye.
![water-hat[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/DYGEaGC.png "water-hat[1].png")
>>46381772
>1. Why does the spider have a hat
>>46381772
>rocks
Anon, those are webbed victims.
>>46377454
>Scale them up to human size and they'd be geniuses
>big humans are smarter than small ones. That's how biology works. I read this on 4chan.
>>46376946
Pacifistic spider mages that have sense of right and wrong.
>>46381925
>mages that have sense of right and wrong.
Well that's just ridiculous
>>46381772
Those are not eyes, they are gaps in the webbing of their humanoid victim. What looks like the iris is actually the leg behind the hole
>>46382256
It's ludicrous from a human standpoint, but perhaps peace is possible through spiders.
#BernieSpiders2016
>>46378545
>yes
>>46383833
>>46383861
>>46383873
>>46377672
Fact: spiders are the most powerful race in the world.
>>46386664
>You will never date a peacock spidergrill that hits on you with her people's traditional "ayyy bb want sum fuk?" dance.
>>46388528
It's only the males that dance, if this happens you got a 'Trap' Spider.
>>46388528
>spidergrill
>>46378591
SIDF pls go.
why yes, I do in fact have a picture folder labeled "spiders"
>>46381925
OMG I can truly see it. MOAR spider mages with fancy ass water hats please!
>>46383873
That's actually really cool.
>>46388966
I'm never kissing anyone ever again.
>>46377077
Plus it still looks adorable as fuck, so even if they see it the party will probably be taken completely unaware.
>Daww, look ath t big fuzzy spider with big googly eyes!
>Ohgod get it off!
>Daww, look at the big fuzzy spider eating Bob the Fighter. Can we keep it as a pet? We could feed it goblins!
>>46389684
Don't give up anon, just believe in yourself.
>>46389672
I don't have much spiders unfortunately.
>>46389684
Some girls put flowers in their hair, some put spiders, it's basically the same.
>>46380327
4score and 7 years ago
>>46388971
>>46389847
That one is more like some bratty urban dandy with his hat tilted thinking it makes him cooler.
>>46389847
Well screw you then, Imma make my own spider wizard college, with black jack and spider hookers!
>>46390581
>>46390581
Oh the glory!
>>46390581
Dem flirty eyelashes!
>>46390581
Here's probably one of the master magis
>>46388638
Anon don't, you know where this will lead!
>It is already to late
>>46390581
Another Master Magi!
>>46377454
Immediately thought of this image.
>>46390581
Third one of the most distinguished order of the Master Magis.
>>46390581
And a fourth!
>>46390661
>>46390677
Why the heck do you save thumbnails?
>>46390732
Out of respect for the spider's wishes obviously.
>>46390581
Sometimes, allthough not often, a great mage arises from a species different than the spider. If the individual is considered to have enough potential he might even be allowed to attend and study at the College of the Spider Wizards!
>>46390581
Here you can see the twin brothers Ag'xi and Ulxa performing their famous mirror like levitation spell.
>>46376946
Spiders are my biggest fetish
>>46390958
Fetishes are my biggest spiders
So instead of water droplets would giant spiders wear slime hats that would give them different abilities based on the slime?
>>46381925
That was a neat thread. I want it back.
>>46378411
I want to fuck a spider.
>>46391986
no , no you do not
