Arachnomancer

The Arachnomancer is a prestige class of the Underdark that focuses on the strength and power of spiders.

Relations
Because of the worship of Lolth among the Drow, an Arachnomancer can expect good reception within the majority of drow society. The Aranea and Chitine are drawn to the Arachnomancer class as well, due to their own relativity to spiders. The Arachnomancer attractiveness is more about what culture, race or personal interest then what class it used to be. All Arachnomancer are spell casters, to be specific arcanists. A cleric who worships a deity of the Spider domain might take up arcane studies to gain some of the Arachnomancer abilities.

Requirements
All spellcasters who wish to become Arachnomancers must be part of a scarification ritual that involves burning symbols into his face and rubbing the symbols with ash or other colorings in order to create raised and clear spider-shaped markings of his devotion to mastery of spider magic. also the one who wants to be an Arachnomancer also has to be evil, knowledgeable about nature.

Abilities

 * Speak with Spiders: An Arachnomancer can speak with any type of spider or any creature considered Spiderkind. Spiders and Spiderkind are typically nonaggressive to any Arachnomancer who can communicate with them.


 * Poison Touch: An Arachnomancer can cause his skin to ooze a poison that can harm others upon being touched.


 * Wall of web: Once per day a experienced Arachnomancer can create a wall like barrier of web. Unlike normal webs, this one is resistant to fire and hard as steel. It can be compared to the wall of steel, except that the Arachnomancer can use its web walking abilities to pass trough it.


 * Command Spiders: An Arachnomancer can treat spiders like evil Clerics treat undead, with the option to command or rebuke them.


 * Spider Blast: An Arachnomancer can create a blast of hundreds of regular sized but very poisonous spiders. The spiders disappear after they've attacked anyone caught in the blast.


 * Spiderform: The Arachnomancer can three times a day transform into a spider. The size is of the Arachnomancer own choosing but his experience limits his size. So a person with low experience withing that arts of the Arachnomancer can only turn into a small, medium or large spider, while some one with more experience can turn into a tiny and gargantuan spider.