Spider, Phase

Phase Spiders are aggressive predators that can 'phase' back and forth between the material plane and ethereal planes. The attacks of these magical creatures can be very disconcerting.

Sometimes while fighting, a phase spider will jump to an injured enemy and attack.


 * Unlike the other standard spiders, a phase spider is immune to neither mind-affecting spells nor the web spell, and it is subject to animal empathy.
 * The exact conditions for a phase spider jumping around in combat may seem completely random at times, due to the factors involved. The most volatile factor is the selection of who to jump to; the target will be the most injured of the visible (possibly to the spider, possibly just not invisible) members of a nearby enemy faction, and the jump will only occur if this injured member is both seen by the spider and further than four meters away. Another factor is random, in that the spider will not jump half the time when it is at full hit points. (The intent was "above half" instead of "at full", but there is a bug in the calculation of half) The distance restriction has a consequence that a phase spider will likely not jump unless a party is spread out to fight several opponents at once.