Talk:Aranea

Edit
Thanks for changing the spelling. My bad, it's how the word always sounds in my head. hashtalk 16:22, March 11, 2010 (UTC)

Tabber
Lhyn, the tabber does look cool... the creature has the same stats for 2e and 3e, which I am not sure at the moment if this is correct... Movie could definately give you some great insight... keep up the good work :) - Darkwynters (talk) 05:13, April 15, 2015 (UTC)


 * According to the sources to which I have access, the stats are as shown here.
 * Yes, I've learned a lot from reading Movie's code and his help in the past! ~ Lhynard (talk) 14:00, April 15, 2015 (UTC)

That entire box is very cool! Well done! Terrorblades 's Far Realm logs dated 09:06, April 15, 2015 (UTC)


 * thanks ~ Lhynard (talk) 14:00, April 15, 2015 (UTC)

Thanks
Great place for the Underdark ref, Darkwynters. I agree it is good to have in the article, but I could not find a good place to put it. ~ Lhynard (talk) 16:27, May 10, 2015 (UTC)

Werespider vs Aranea
I don't think the werespider link is correct here. In Monstrous compendium annual 3 both Aranea and Werespider have different entries and its specifically states that werespiders are lycanthropes. Artyom.pavlov (talk) 18:02, June 26, 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree. Is there actually any source that calls aranea werespiders? Underdark seems to mention the aranea only in passing an refers the Monster Manual 3.5 edition, where I did not see this association. Daranios (talk) 13:51, June 27, 2020 (UTC)
 * As for a Realms-specific example of a distinction being made: on page 29 of Demihuman Deities, in the paragraph starting with "Lolth typically acts through", aranea and werespiders are listed separately. — Look-a-troopa (talk) 14:11, June 27, 2020 (UTC)
 * Also from Demihuman Deities page 35 is this passage that uses them interchangeably: "The ruins have been inhabited by a race of werespiders for centuries. The aranea are large, intelligent spiders capable of assuming a single humanoid form."
 * That doesn't read like the terms being used interchangeably to me. Rather, it makes it sound like the aranea are considered a subset of werespider. — Look-a-troopa (talk) 14:19, June 27, 2020 (UTC)
 * Dammit lol I just typed up the whole thing and it's gone! basically i found that in the Empire of the Sands they are called werespiders in quotations and stated they are not Lycontropes. so local misconception in Calimshan.Artyom.pavlov (talk) 14:23, June 27, 2020 (UTC)
 * MM3.5 and MMAnual3 have no reference between the two. And a character from Jewel of Turmish is an explicit lycanthrope werespider in service of Malar, no reference to aranea.Artyom.pavlov (talk) 14:26, June 27, 2020 (UTC)

I found it also:
 * From Empires of the Shining Sea, page 52: "The rare werespiders of Mir, a misnomer bestowed by early explorers who first encountered the aranaea [sic], inhabit and dominate both the Spider Swamp and the lower Forest of Mir." And from page 90: "In addition, the swamp's most notable inhabitants are the “werespiders”—the aranea....here is the widely accepted Calishite origin of the “werespiders” (they are not lycanthropes) that inhabit the Spider Swamp...". This book indicates that the aranea are incorrectly called werespiders, but that is how they are known in Calimshan. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 14:26, June 27, 2020 (UTC)