Cloak of Arachnida 5e
Wondrous Item, very rare (requires attunement)
This fine garment is made of black silk interwoven with faint silvery threads. While wearing it, you gain the following benefits:
You have resistance to poison damage.
You have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.
You can move up, down, and across vertical surfaces and upside down along ceilings, while leaving your hands free.
You can't be caught in webs of any sort and can move through webs as if they were difficult terrain.
You can use an action to cast the Web spell (save DC 13). The web created by the spell fills twice its normal area. Once used, this property of the cloak can't be used again until the next dawn.
Commentary by Sam West, Twitter: @CrierKobold
Arachnida is a fancy class for Spiders and their relatives; this cloak gives you every neat ability our eight-legged friends have to some degree. Want to be Spider-Man? While this won’t give you all of the super-powers Peter Parker shows off, it will do a decent impression in the world of Dungeons & Dragons.
The Spider Climb spell provides you with the exact benefits provided by the second and third bullet points.
An improved walking speed through effects like Monk’s Fast Movement will carry over to your climb speed while attuned.
This allows you to both cast Web in the enlarged area while also being able to move through it, staying free of the restraints.
Web cast this way always uses the save DC of 13.
Web still requires walls to anchor on else it’ll fall in on itself and disappear a round after casting; the enlarged space provides you with more areas you can stick this between easily.
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