Homebrew Insect folk Species Details

Many tales tell of humanoids with grim cold eyes and an exoskeleton as hard as iron and frail wings.

— Torbolg, Fir bolg and librarian

Taking this monstrocity through town in your party is no walk in the park, curious to discusted looks is all you'll get. These insect like humanoids come in many shapes, sizes and colours but operate mostly on insticts. Unlike lizardfolk these creatures can sometimes set aside their own survival instect to safe their colony. These humanoids have a perfect build for combat as they not only poses a hard exoskeleton but also a formidable strenght.

Despite their monstrous looks these creatures can be both helpfull in combat and in scaring away unwanted people.

Colonials

These creatures Often think of themselfs as just a part of the colony, perhaps they have a great leader like a queen who'm they shall protect at any costs. This behavior only comes out in some of this race others tend to behave similar to lizardfolk.

A group of close friends will fall under the terms of their colony.

 

Cold and Instictive

They poses great insticts and are often cunning artisians. When it comes to survival these creatures have been adaptive to the harshest of inviroments and can almost eat anything, so long its not an alloy Because their stomachs produse strong acids and often are a sought after acid for assasins or alchemist.

 

Creative

This race enters war for terretory more then humans do and create weapons if need be on the battle field itself, al is it a sword made from mandables of a slain foe, these creatures will find something to serve as anything.

 

Birth

As birth is an important part of lives, and these creature look very difrent from their own often times. The proces of birth is all the same, they come from eggs that later hatch into larva that either get fed by elders if life in a colony or have to feed on smaller prey if they live in other society.

Instectfolk Names

Insect folk names often resemble what class in society they have, this can be for a really strong one: brute / small but fast: scout. Family does not need to know names as each larva gains a unique set of pheromones, like DNA to humans phermones in Insectfolk culture is very important.

Often when insectfolk act on their own their party members come up with a new name for their monstrous member just to set him apart from other alike.

 

 

Insect folk Traits

Your insectfolk has the following racial traits.

Ability Score Increase

Your strenght score increases by 2, and your dexterity score increases by 1.

Age

Insectfolk reach maturity around age 10 and rarely live longer than 50 years.

Alignment

Most Insectfolk are neutral. They see the world as a place of predators and prey, where life and death are natural processes. They wish only to survive, and prefer to leave other creatures to their own devices.

But exceptions do exist like the bee or ant variant of the race who live in large colonies and bow down to a queen, exiled ones or deserted go of to form or find other colonies.

Size

Insectfolk are slightly smaller then humans but their exo skeleton give of the imprssion that they might be larger. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming speed of 30 feet.

Insect strike

Your insect body has its own natural defences, from stingers to large mandables you can strike your foes down with it.

(flavour as you want)

Creative artisian

As part of a short rest, you can harvest bone, hide and other kinds of limbs from a slain beast, construct, dragon, monstrosity, or plant creature of size Small or larger to create one of the following items:  a shield, any simple weapon and  appropriate artisian tools

Insect bond

You can create a bond with insects 1 size smaller then you.

Specialty.

You gain proficiency with two skills your choice

Exo Skeleton

You have a tough exo skeleton. When you aren’t wearing armor, your AC is 13 + your Dexterity modifier. You can use your natural armor to determine your AC if the armor you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield’s benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armor.

Insect flight

You have a flying speed of 30 feet. To use this speed, you can’t be wearing medium or heavy armor.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and undercommon.