Homebrew Beekin Species Details
Bees are considered a keystone species to several environments. Bees pollinate a vast number of flowering plants around the world. There are roughly 20,000 different species of bee currently known on the planet, with about 4,000 being native to the United States, with a wide range of sizes and colors. Another noteworthy fact is that bees in the United States are responsible for pollinating over 100 different crop plants, with honeybees primarily pollinating Almonds, non-citrus fruit trees, squash, melons, and berries. Honeybees, which consist of 8 distinct species, with 43 subspecies, are also able to create honey, which is both a food source for animals and people alike and is sometimes used as medicine by humans. They also create beeswax, which is used in a variety of goods such as soaps, candles, and cosmetics. However, some species of bee, such as rusty patched honeybee, are now endangered with several others on the decline. As you can imagine, this is a very bad thing. Some ways that this could be(e) combated are by planting wildflowers that bees can get food from, placing water stations for the hot summer days, and by placing bee boxes for local bee populations.
Beekin Traits
Beekin Traits and AbilitiesAbility Score Improvements: +2 Charisma, +1 Intelligence
Derived from the facts that Bees communicate the location and quantity of food using a specialized dance and the fact that bees are eusocial insects, meaning that they are a part of a hive mind lead by a sole reproducing Queen.
Communicative Motion
Bees have a special type of communication that is used to convey information to other bees. This method, called a waggle dance, is used to convey the distance, and direction of food, water, and other resources. I have translated this as both proficiency in performance and a +3 bonus to performance in dance and nonverbal communication.
Flight and Burrowing
Flight is obvious, but the burrowing speed stems from the fact that 70% of bees build their hives underground as opposed to the hives we think of. As such, Beekin have a flying speed equal to their walking speed and a Burrowing speed equal to half their walking speed.
Hive Elixer
Beehives are created by several species in order to store and raise larvae, as well as to store honey. These hives are created mainly from beeswax in nature, but man-made hives have been made using clay, wood, mud, and skeps, which are essentially woven baskets flipped upside down with a small hole in the size. This ability grants you proficiency with one of the following: Potter's tools, Weaver's Tools, Carpenter's Tools or Woodcarver's Tools. You can use one of these to create a "Hive" with a special wax Honeycomb inside it. You can then place nectar into these honeycombs to generate a special honey after 1 day, which can either be consumed for temporary HP or applied with a medicine check to heal 1d12 hp as an action.
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