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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[]

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn[]

Baldur's Gate II Enhanced Edition: Shadows of Amn[]

Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal[]

Trivia[]

  • The offical website for the original game, now archived, had – in addition to some combat-related statistics – the following information about giant spiders:[1]

    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.

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Baldur's Gate - Monsters | Wayback Machine
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