Arachnomancer

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

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.

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.


 * 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.