Fantasy Monster: Cobweb Sheep

You can now support Shaper Of Worlds on Patreon.

Cobweb Sheep

A sheep skeleton, wrapped in silken webs woven by spiders skittering all over it.

CR 1; XP 400
N Medium Undead

Init +1; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +1

Defense
AC 12, touch 11, flat-footed 11 (+1 Dex, +1 natural)
hp 16 (3d8+3)
Fort +2; Ref +2; Will +4

Weakness skittering spiders

Offense
Speed 40 ft., climb 20 ft.

Melee gore +3 (2d4+1 plus entrap)

Special Attacks entrap (DC 12, 1d4 rounds, hardness 2, hp 5)

Statistics
Str 12, Dex 12, Con —, Int —, Wis 13, Cha 13
Base Atk +2; CMB +3; CMD 14 (16 vs. trip)

Skills Climb +9, Perception +1, Stealth +1

Ecology
Environment ruins, underground
Organization flock (1–12)
Treasure standard (mostly in the form of delicate spider silk strands that can be harvested by skilled laborer)

Special Abilities

Entrap (Su) Minute spiders crawl all over the creature hit by cobweb sheep's gore attack, covering the target with webbing that entangles the target on a failed Reflex saving throw (DC 12). A target that is already entangled that is hit again becomes bound helpless on a failed Reflex saving throw. The webbing is immune to crushing damage but burns away instantly if exposed to any amount of fire damage, though the bound victim suffers the same amount of fire damage as well. The saving throw DC is Charisma-based.

Skittering Spiders Cobweb sheep is held together by spiderwebs constantly woven and rewoven by spider swarm living inside. Any effect that injures, kills, repels, or controls vermin (or spiders specifically) staggers a cobweb sheep for 1d4 rounds and vermin bane weapons affect cobweb sheep as if it was a vermin as well as undead.

Cobweb sheep are reanimated skeletons of sheep, goats, and similar animals, with their bones held together by webs woven of spiders swarms that live in their chest cavity.

A flock of cobweb sheep behave like normal sheep... Except they might be grazing on old spider webs across the walls and chambers of an abandoned castle or in dark tunnels deep underground, often standing in hard to reach places like balconies, on chandeliers, and locked dungeon cells.

With enough skill, and some undead-controlling abilities, spidersilk strands can be harvested from cobweb sheep without destroying the latter, though unlike cutting wool of still living sheep, the process must be much more delicate to avoid disturbing the spiders, or breaking the brittle dried bones.