The Widow's Lair

For almost a year now spyder has had her house deed in her pack...yet i have been at a total loss as to what to build for her *shocker i know* and im gonna look to you folks for help.

Spyder in pnp was always my...defender of the weak punisher of the bully type. she prowled the rooftops at night lookin for those who needed to be avenged. I used to have her in a *grey mouser* type of lair from out of the lahnkmar books.

In the toolset though theres no *true* tileset i can use to represent that without 3.4 million placeables *runs and hides from ad* so im kinda stumped on what to do. Id just give her a sewer lair...but the sewer tileset is so bland on areas and its so hard to see in that tileset due to non fading geometry.

Id had one idea of giving her an abandoned warehouse with junk and debris that led thru a secret door to her true lair...but were back at the *lotso placeables* thing again. Plus i dont have any skill makin secret doors in the toolset.

So i turn to all of you guys for inspiration...toss me some ideas and maybe something will catch my interrest.

Thanks all

*turns brain on*

Maybe something small, underground.... with a concealed surface entrance in a secluded place?

...with spider webs everywhere.

hmm i always pictured her as a more city type...never did much outdoors stuff with her.

*jots it down*

The idea of secluded underground haven is as a defensive measure. If she is active in the city primarily, what better place for a safe secret lair than outside thecity?

True, dave, but I know that my PCs don't tend to stray from their areas of comfort, even for emergency hideout-ness...

could be a secluded place inside a city, as well

Kef did mention sewers... maybe rather than sewers, some underground tunnels/cave structure?

yea more in the city is to tastes as she would prowl the rooftops lookin for trouble. She's a complex individual...shes ...well constructively evil as i call it. Shes neutral evil..but the evil is that she thinks of herself as above the law...judge jury and executioner.

If someone say beats up a homeless guy just for kicks....she would have him staked hands and feet (and throat slit) to the wall where he commited the crime.

The reason for this is that in her *house* she was beat upon by her elder sisters and brothers for what they saw was weakness...hence why she left...now however she takes that anger out on those who do the same thing on the surface.

Hence...why she had a lair in the loft of a warehouse...i just wanted to keep it small to save ad on mod space. He said it was gettin large before i just wanted ideas as to what tileset to use and keeping it small. So i went to you folks for just simple ideas to try out

Sounds more chaotic neutral to me - doesnt respect laws, but doesnt break them just for the thrill of it either... but also is not evil per se, so much as neutral if she favors more brutal tactics against enemies to get the job done, after all she isnt murdering innocents... though it is still murder. Alignment debates being a mess in general, whatever you say for your PC really goes, however.

Well...i went to a gen con and got to meet gary gygax at a seminar, and he told us that alignments were spose to be a dm's guideline for npc's. But it somehow got stuck in the player section and then everyone got stuck with it ever since.