# Giant Spider

> From the Curse of Strahd game wiki (it covers the whole game, spoilers included): https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/giant-spider.html. Unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy, not approved or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.

> [!infobox]
> ![giant spider](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/giant-spider.webp)
> **Type:** Large beast
> **Alignment:** unaligned
> **Challenge:** 1 (200 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 14
> **Hit Points:** 26 (4d10+4)
> **Speed:** 30 ft, climb 30 ft

## Stat block

A horse-sized hunting spider: climbs walls, binds prey in webs and bites with venom.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 26 (4d10+4) | 30 ft, climb 30 ft | 1 | 200 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 (+2) | 16 (+3) | 12 (+1) | 2 (-4) | 11 (+0) | 4 (-3) |

- **Skills:** Perception +4, Stealth +7
- **Senses:** darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 14

### Traits

- **Spider Climb.** Climbs difficult surfaces, even upside down on ceilings, with no ability check.
- **Web Walker.** Webs don't slow it, and it feels anything touching its webs.

### Actions

- **Bite.** A venomous bite.
- **Web.** The webbing is an object on the battlefield: AC 10, 5 Hit Points, Vulnerability to Fire, Immunity to Bludgeoning, Poison and Psychic damage. Breaking it frees the creature.

## Where you meet it

- [The Webbed Gully](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-webbed-gully.md): [The Spiders' Gully](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-spiders-gully.md) · *Things come out of the cracks in the gully walls on long legs, very quickly, down their own threads.*

On the road: [Baratok Slopes](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/world/random-encounters.md)