How scary can a D&D monster be given that part of it’s name spells out the word LOL? Apparently, if the creature is Lolth The Spider Queen, very scary indeed.
Lolth, The Spider Queen is one of the major villains in Dungeons and Dragons canon. A goddess of cold cruelty, deceit, shadows and spiders, acts of pragmatic evil, torture, murder and malice are her food and drink. The Queen of the Demonweb pits is worshipped mostly by a murderous cult of elves who dwell in the vast subterranean realm known as the Underdark.
The Magic: The Gathering Miniatures: Adventures In The Forgotten Realms – Lolth, The Spider Queen model is one of those fun examples of a franchise within a franchise. This piece is based on the Magic The Gathering card Lolth The Spider Queen, which itself is based Lolth from the Drizzt Do’Urden novels by RA Salvatore, which themselves drew from the classic Dungeons and Dragon’s adventure Queen of the Demonweb Pits. Or to put it another way, a lot of effort has gone into the character design.
The model itself features elegant elven queen with an enormous spider as their rear-half. The elven part of the piece has too many arms and the face is sculptured to reflect arrogant disregard. Every inch the monster, they’ve done their best to convey ‘inhuman beauty’ and then stuck a massively monstrous backside which happens to a huge fuzzy spider thing. The whole thing simply has too many limbs (more than eight if you count the goddess half) and will make at least one of your players reach for a pint glass and a postcard when you plonk it down on the table.
It’s a big model, but not so big that it will dominate the board. The paint job is good and there isn’t much that needs changing here. This is a model that you either never use (because your game doesn’t use Lolth) or will use all the time because Lolth, being a Goddess, can be hanging around in the background. Really though, this is a model that’s intended to look really creepy on someone’s bookshelf, likely surrounded by RA Salvatore novels.
