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Lineage - Attercops

Old fat spider spinning in a tree! Old fat spider can’t see me! Attercop! Attercop! Won’t you stop, Stop your spinning and look for me!    - The Hobbit , J R R Tolkien Attercops are a smaller, typically social species of humanoid arachnids, closely related to the more solitary and feral Ettercap. They drink blood and the internal organs of living creatures. Attercops had historically been subsistence hunters, working in teams to deal with larger prey and hold their own against more voracious predators. However, after the advent of livestock farming, many have adopted a more sedentary lifestyle, becoming eager participants in community life. Stats below are intended for use with the Ancient Red Wyrm system . But it should be possible to adapt them to other OSR and newer school fantasy role-playing games with little effort. Ability Score Adjustments:  +2 DEX, +2 WIS, -2 STR, -2 CHA Cobweb: Each round an attercop may produce about 1 square yard of weak, gauzy webbing, lacking eno