Jorogumo
Jorogumos are seductive schemers who secret themselves away in isolated mountain valleys where they lure travelers, especially men, to their dooms. Exclusively female, jorogumos must mate with humanoids to produce fertile eggs. After copulation, a jorogumo paralyzes her partner by poisoning him into a coma. She lays a single egg within the father's body, then cocoons the corpse and hides the victim. Periodic visits to re-poison the victim ensure his coma lasts for the 2d4 days required for the young jorogumo to hatch and feed. Jorogumos are enthusiastic enemies of tengus and attack them on sight—they never take tengus as “mates.”
- HP
- 161 (14d10+84)
- AC
- 27, touch 15, flat-footed 22 (+4 Dex, +1 dodge, +12 natural)
- Speed
- 30 ft., climb 50 ft., swim 40 ft.
- Init
- +4
- Melee
- bite +20 (1d4+6/19-20 plus poison), 2 claws +20 (1d6+6)
- BAB
- +14
- CMB
- +20
- CMD
- 35
- Fort
- +10
- Ref
- +13
- Will
- +14
- DR
- 10/cold iron and magic
- Racial Modifiers
- +8 Climb with spider legs
sneak attack +3d6
web (+18 ranged, DC 23, 14 hp)
change shape (giant spider; vermin shape I)
Spider Empathy — This ability functions as a druid's wild empathy, save that it works only on spiders. A jorogumo uses her Hit Dice (normally 14) as her effective druid level. Spiders are normally mindless, but this empathic communication imparts upon them a modicum of implanted intelligence, allowing the jorogumo to train them and use them as guardians (though it does not grant them skills or feats).
swift shapechanger.
Dodge, Improved Critical (bite), Improved Iron Will, Iron Will, Mobility, Power Attack, Spring Attack
Acrobatics +14, Bluff +19, Climb +29 (+37 with spider legs), Diplomacy +18, Perception +18, Perform (string) +10, Sense Motive +15, Stealth +19, Swim +14
- Type
- Monstrous Humanoid
- Alignment
- NE
- Size
- Medium
- Environment
- temperate mountain valleys
- Organization
- solitary or cult (2-6 plus 2-8 spiders of various sizes)
- Treasure
- standard
- Senses
- darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +18
- Languages
- Aklo, Common, Sylvan
- Source
- Bestiary 3
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