Spider talisman

File:Spider talisman.png A spider talisman is a talisman that transforms you into a jumping spider.

Useful Info

When eVoked, a spider talisman puts you into Spider Form, which lasts until you end the form. Entering or exiting a form takes 5 turns.

Spider Form has the following effects:

Offensive traits

• Unarmed Combat: 3 base damage (no bonus)
  • Unarmed attacks gain short blade-tier stabbing bonuses
  • Small chance to ensnare enemies in a web on hit (20% - 40%, depending on the Shapeshifting skill)
• Rampaging
• +5 dexterity

Defensive traits

• Poison vulnerability (rPois-)
• Innate EV: +5-15 EV, scaling with Shapeshifting skill
• Tiny size (+6 base EV and Dodging skill bonus compared to a medium-sized species)
• Stealth+
• Jump ability: Transports you to a random tile in LOS (like the Blink spell), causes you to evade all attacks you can evade, and has a chance to cause enemies to lose track of you. (Cooldown)

Restrictions

• Melded Gear: All weapons and armor
• Suppressed mutations: Anatomy, blood, bones

Spider Form has a minimum Shapeshifting skill of 12, below which you get an HP penalty. Maximum skill is 20.

Strategy

Spider Form	Gargoyle
File:Spider form transform.png	File:Spider form gargoyle.png

History

• Spider talismans were added in 0.33.