Tao of the Dancing Spider

Tao of the Dancing Spider

The Tao of the Dancing Spider channels the agility and silence of spiders, weaving martial discipline with predatory grace. Practitioners train to move without sound, cling to walls, and strike from impossible angles. Their limbs are wrapped in silk cords and inked with stylized legs, fangs, and webs—symbols of ambush, patience, and control.

Every movement flows like a strand drawn taut—measured, reactive, and lethal. Strikes lash out in sudden bursts, and footwork misleads with twitchy unpredictability. Whether balanced on ceilings or clinging to cliff walls, you remain poised to strike, entangle, or vanish.

Thread-Bound Style

You learn to manipulate tension like a weaver. Threads of movement, trap, and illusion anchor your style. You evade blows by inches, strike from inversion, and grapple with phantom limbs of silk. Your art rewards stillness and bursts of speed—calm before the pounce.

Web-Walker

Dancing Spider monks are viewed with suspicion. Too quiet, too quick, too clever. Most monasteries forbid the training, calling it dishonorable or deceitful. But in the underplaces of Zin and deep canyons carved by wind, your style thrives—feared by raiders and warlords alike who dread what hunts from above.


  • Passive Abilities:
  • Natural Verticality
    3000 gp 5
  • Thread Sense
    1500 gp 5
  • Threaded Eyes
    1000 gp 10
  • Trap Memory
    5000 gp 15
  • Silken Reflexes
    5000 gp 20
  • Threadwalker
    3000 gp 20
  • Silkreader
    4000 gp 25
  • Arachne’s Breath
    5000 gp 30

  • Abilities:
  • Weaver's Trap
    8
  • Widow's Bloom
    20
  • Stinger Kneel
    32

  • Quick Abilities:
  • Spider's Rhythm
    5
  • Switch to Spider Stance
    5
  • Threaded Leap
    5
  • Threadline Lure
    28

  • Attack Abilities:
  • Piercing Limb
    1500 gp 12
  • Dance of Eight Legs
    2000 gp 16
  • Widow Queen’s Bite
    10000 gp 40

  • Reaction Abilities:
  • Tangle Reversal
    24
  • Silk Hook
    36

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