Originally Posted by fallenj
This battle was interesting at least for me, here are the stats for each creature, which is based on medium difficulty.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/3776464-baldurs-gate-3-phase-spider

https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/3776156-bg3-phase-spider-matriarch

https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/3776494-bg3-phase-spiderling

Ignore the reaction's on the entries it was just me trying to figure out the code. Matriarch doesn't get two attacks till her rage, at least that's what happened for my two fights with her. There are 16 total spiderlings if she manages to get all three groups spawned (five, five, and six for groups), along with 2 phase spiders.

The interesting part is her rage boosts strength, gives additional attack, and gives -1 to her ac. Both attacks are dex based so the only thing her rage does is the additional attack. Also if you are going by 5e phase spider basic phase spider is a large creature which IS the matriarch, the two phase spiders in the encounter got reduced to medium and spiderlings are tiny.

edit* I did this really late so hoping I transferred all the info i could gather over correctly and it was my first attempt at using that tool, so cut me some slack pls if its not 100%.
Shes not large lol. Shes huge. The normal phase spiders are large.

What annoys me the most about phase spiders is the fact that they teleport in bg3. Phase spiders DO NOT teleport. They phase in and out of the astral plane. Which to a layman gives off the appearance that they teleport.

However they cant phase in and out in 1 turn. Its takes at minimum 2 turns to phase out and back in.

I already pointed this out in the EA but Larian doesent seem to care?

The fight itself isent bad per se. Hiding and then jumping her with a suprise round should make the fight easier. And theees no light sources nearby (if I renember right) so that shouldbt be to hard. Cheesing falldamage makes the fight exceptionally easy even.

If you dont want to do either then yeah the fight can be hard at low levels. But considering the creature you are fighting, it should be.

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