Spider Borg

The Dying World learned true horror when Dark Grandmother drank the darkness from Nechrubel's Tree. Hatched in the passing shadow of a basilisk, a gigantic rampaging spider came to The Great Tree of Sacrilege and was trapped there. Now, as much a cultist of Nechrubel as she is a giant monster, she is forced to barter the magicks that she drank freely from the evil-soaked tree. 

Will you set her abode aflame and take her magics by force? Or are you depraved enough to make offerings to her? She still hungers for magic of the mind and of the ancient world, but she truly hungers for still-living flesh. What power can you glean from her sacrifices?

What's in here?

• A ruined site of power for Nechrubel, the evil tree IRMINSUL and the giant spider Shabbath who is trapped there
• Giant monster with personality and desire! 
• 8 new Powers, 1 new consumable resource (the clutchling) and 1 new character changing Boon
• Rules for what currency the spider-witch trades in and for how much...

This short drag-n-drop supplement SPIDER-BORG is an entry for the Bogfolk Cafe MONSTER MASH Jam (22'). My thought process was: "why aren't there more giant spiders in Mork Borg?" followed by reading the Silmarillion and thinking "What would the Twin Trees be like in mork borg? And what if a giant spider drank its power, like Ungoliant did?" And then I arrived at Shabbath, the Dark Grandmother, the spider that is now fat with the dark magicks of Nechrubel. 

I hope you enjoy!

[I will soon be releasing updated version of the PDF to be more readable (and printable at home!), I just wanted to get this done for the game jam and before I become consumed with annual Halloween festivities IRL]

Content Warning: Contains references to spiders and horror tropes associated with them, including spiders crawling onto and into bodies, cocooning, having fluids drained, etc.