Talk:Old Forest Spiders (4e Creature)

I'm assuming the small spider swarms will be minions. What might be interesting is if the carrier bursts into spider swarms when it is bloodied (rather than reduced to 0 hit points). That way, the XP cost of the minions is included in the cost of the carrier. This makes the DMs job a bit easier when budgeting an encounter. Marasmusine (talk) 04:21, 22 July 2012 (MDT)

I've spotted two further issues:

• The carrier is level 10, but the minions it spawns are only level 5. This is okay if the party are level 7 or 8, but outside this range either the carrier is too high level, or the swarms are too low level.
• The "Hunt" trait - deciding how a surviving monster might return in the game - is something that a DM is expected to use their judgement with anyway. You can describe how the spider pursues those it has fought in the general description, but it shouldn't be a statblock rule. Perhaps you can make the venom-biter a Lurker instead, as lurkers tend to slip in and out of combat. Marasmusine (talk) 01:09, 23 July 2012 (MDT)