Aura of Bees. At the start of each of the bee-holder's turns, each creature within 10 feet of it takes 7 (2d6) piercing damage or 14 (4d6) piercing damage if they are poisoned.
Flyby. The bee-holder doesn't provoke opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemy's reach.
Multiattack. The bee-holder makes a bite and a sting attack.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (3d6) piercing damage.
Sting. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) piercing damage, and the targett must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. While poisoned in this way, the target is restrained. At the start of their next turn the target must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or become paralyzed. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of it's turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Sun Ray. Ranged Spell Attack: +7 to hit, range 120ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) radiant damage.
Not The Bees! The bee-holder spews bees from its mouth. The bee-holder summons a swarm of insects in an unnocupied space within 10 feet of the bee-holder. The swarm treats the bee-holder as an ally and last until they are reduced to 0 hit points. The bee-holder can have up to 4 swarms summoned at a time.
The bee-holder can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The bee-holder regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Chomp. The bee-holder makes one Bite attack.
Command Bees. The bee-holder targets one swarm it can see within 30 feet of it. If the swarm can see and hear the bee-holder, the swarm can make one weapon attack as a reaction with advantage.
Inflict Allergy (Costs 2 Actions). The bee-holder curses one creature it can see within 60 feet of it. The creature must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or gain vulnerability to piercing damage dealt by the bee-holder and its summons until the end of the bee-holder's next turn.
Honey Trap (Costs 2 Actions). The bee-holder spits a globule of honey at a creature it can see within 30 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or take 9 (2d8) bludgeoning damage and if the target is Large or smaller it is restrained by the honey (escape DC 14).
Description
A-bee-rration
When the eldritch energies of the abyss corrupt a hive, its dark influence can coalesce into a this bzzz'arre creature. A bee-holder seeks out an existing hive, displaces its queen and installs itself as ruler. From its new home it seeks to expand outwards, adopting more hives and corrupting the local wildlife.
Writhing Swarm
A bee-holder is both creature and swarm, seeming to discorporate into a cloud of bees and solidify into a monstrosity before one's eyes. Its one consistent feature, its bright yellow eye, ever glowing from within the buzzing chaos.
Sweet and Sickly
While the bee-holder does not seek to eat intruders, it nonetheless has a fascination for those those who would be so bold as to brave its lair. It enjoys putting its prey on display within the hive, using its poisonous sting to paralyse, and its sticky honey to preserve.
Bee-holder Lairs
Bee-holders make their lairs in enormous in existing hives. They displace the queen and install themselves as the new leader. Under its command, the hive expands at a rapid rate, increasing honey production and seeking to incorporate other nearby hives.
Some bee-holders opt meld their hives with their surrounding environment, basing themselves in large tree hollows or tunnel systems, others adopt a more organised hive layout while others still, demand that their hive construct enormous tiered fortresses.
Bee-holder Lair Features
The lair has the following features:
Humming Chorus. The air in the hive is thick with worker bees persistantly zooming about. While they are too focused on their tasks to register the presence of intruders, their combined buzzing creates an unsettling echo throughout the entire lair.
Honey Glazed. The surfaces of the hive are coated in the bee-holder's viscous honey. The entire hive is considered difficult terrain.
Trophies and Treasure. Throughout a bee-holder's lair are hardened globs of honey containing the remains of other intruders. The bee-holder enjoys displaying its victims and their magical trinkets for any future bold adventurers who dare to enter.
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