Homebrew BEES Species Details

You are a sentient swarm of bees.

BEES Traits

You are a sentient swarm of bees.

+2 Dexterity

As a swarm of bees, you are nimble and hard to pin down

+1 Wisdom

+1 Wisdom

-1 Con

-1 Con

Unarmed

You are proficient in your unarmed strike, and it uses dex instead of str for the attack and damage rolls. It deals piercing damage, and the damage die is 1d6. When you hit with an unarmed strike, take 1 damage.

Various effects

every HP represents 2 lb bees. When at 0hp, there are 1d12 bees left. Requires DC 15 heal check to stabilize instead of DC 10.
magical healing conjures new bees.
Cannot receive nonmagical healing unless within 120ft of a beehive.
Cannot recieve healing or hit dice from long rest unless within 120ft of home beehive.
Your home beehive can be modified into a backpack and worn by another character to allow ease of multi-day traveling. This beehive backpack weighs 20lb and costs 200 GP.

Cannot be grappled.

Bees can maintain connection to the swarm consciousness if they are within 30 feet of the main swarm.
The main swarm must occupy no more space than a 5ftx5ftX5ft cube and only up to 5 bees can be outside the swarm at any time (except when collecting pollen, see below)

If you have spellcasting and there is a sufficient number of living flowers in the vicinity, bees can disperse and collect pollen for at least 1 hour to regain used spell slots whose total level equals [your proficiency bonus]-1. You also gain the benefits of a short rest when you do so. You can only use this feature once per long rest.

lifespan - potentially infinite if there are sufficient bees to maintain the swarm consciousness

can speak by combined precise buzzing. languages - common, sylvan

dexterity modifier increases by 1 while below half HP

vulnerability to fire damage
resistance to slashing, piercing damage

Whenever recieve cold damage, make con save to avoid hibernating for 1 min
DC = amount of damage taken
awaken automaticlly after 1 min but cannot be awakened before then by nonmagical means.

 

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