Ettercap

Ettercap
Record
Type	Monster
Gender	Neither Summoned
Race	Ettercap
Class	Ettercap
Alignment	LG NG CG LN TN CN LE NE CE
Involvement
Allegiance	Enemy Controlled
Ability scores
Level	5
Hit points	40 37 42
XP value	650 0
Str	14
Str	14
Dex	9
Dex	9
Con	9
Con	9
Int	9
Int	9
Wis	9
Wis	9
Cha	9
Cha	9
Total scores	59
Morale	10
Break	5 0
Recovery	30
Combat basics
Full damage	Claw attack: 1d3 (slashing) Bite attack: 1d8 (piercing) Poison effect: 2 damage / s Negate: Save vs Death Lasts 37 seconds
Natural AC	4 6
Base THAC0	11 15
Base APR	3
Saving throws
Dth	4 11
Wand	5 13
Poly	5 12
Brth	6 13
Spell	5 14
Special
Effects	Immune to effect: Paralyze Baldur's Gate I & II Classic This icon indicates content from all original Baldur's Gate games, extensions included. Webbed Baldur's Gate II Classic & Enhanced This icon indicates content from all games of the 2nd Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits II.
AI scripts
Name	None
Race	ETTERCAP
Inventory
Gold	0
Items	well-off random treasure Cursed Scroll of Foolishness
Exclusive equipment	Undroppable item This icon indicates an item that cannot be dropped or stolen. Amulet Undroppable item This icon indicates an item that cannot be dropped or stolen. Weapon Undroppable item This icon indicates an item that cannot be dropped or stolen. Weapon
Reputation impact if
Killed	None
Technical information
Creature codes	ETTERC Baldur's Gate I Classic & Enhanced This icon indicates content from all games of the 1st Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits. ETTERC1 Baldur's Gate I Classic & Enhanced This icon indicates content from all games of the 1st Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits. ETTER01 Baldur's Gate II Classic & Enhanced This icon indicates content from all games of the 2nd Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits II. ETTERCSU (summoned)

Ettercaps are hideous creatures that resemble a cross between a gangly ape and a bloated spider.

Gameplay

The Ettercap will attack three times per round. Its primary attack is a claw attack that deals 1d3 (slashing) damage. Its secondary attack is a bite attack that deals 1d8 (piercing) damage and forces a save vs. poison to avoid two hit points per second of poison damage for thirty-seven seconds. Poison bites will stack, but a cure will remove all poison from the body. The claw attack is employed roughly sixty percent of the time and the bite attack forty percent, and it doesn't switch between the two types of attack styles when engaged with an enemy.

Ettercaps are immune to webs and have strong saving throws. However, since they are level 5, they are vulnerable to the cleric spell Command.

Summoned

In the Shadows of Amn, Ettercaps (ETTERCSU.cre) can be summoned by the spell Monster Summoning III. Summoned creatures have only slightly more hit points (42), but a worse THAC0 (15), and they do not drop random treasure.

Related Quests

• Fahrington's Scroll - Fahrington asks Gorion's Ward and party to retrieve his "scroll of wisdom". It is found in the possession of an ettercap (ETTERC1.cre).

Locations

Baldur's Gate:

• Cloakwood Forest
  • Cloakwood Nest (×5) (plus random spawn)
    • Spider Nest (×2)
• Lonely Peaks
  • Cave (×1)
• Spider Wood (×1) (plus random spawn)
• Random Encounter:Forest (random spawn)

Tales of the Sword Coast:

• Durlag's Tower
  • Labyrinth Level Four (×2)

Shadows of Amn:

• Druid Grove (random spawn)
• Forest of Tethir (random spawn)
• Lower Tombs (random spawn)
• The Old Tunnels (×4) (proximity trap)
• The Planar Sphere
  • Entrance (random spawn)
• Underwater City (random spawn)

Throne of Bhaal:

• Watcher's Keep
  • Altar Level (random spawn)
  • Elemental Level (random spawn)

Trivia

• The offical website for the original game, now archived, had – in addition to some combat-related statistics – the following information about ettercaps:

  Ettercaps are ugly bipedal creatures that get along very well with all types of giant spiders. These creatures of low intelligence are exceedingly cruel, very cunning, and are skilled in setting traps - very deadly traps - much like the spiders that often live around them.
  
  Ettercaps stand around six feet tall, even with their stooping gait and hunched shoulders. The creatures have short, spindly legs, long arms that reach nearly to their ankles, and large pot-bellies. The hands of ettercaps have a thumb and three long fingers that end in razor sharp claws. Tufts of thick, wiry, black hair cover their bodies, and their skin is dark and thick. Ettercaps' heads are almost equine in shape, but they have large reptilian eyes, usually blood-red in color, and large fangs, one protruding downward from each side of the mouth. The mouth itself is large and lined with very sharp teeth.

Visuals

GIFs

Promotional animation

Gallery

Ettercap waiting for a wayward adventurer

Promotional screenshot

Ettercaps attack the party in the Lower Tombs

External links

• Ettercap on the Forgotten Realms Wiki, a wiki for the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Forgotten Realms.