Homebrew Insectoid (Ant) Species Details

 

The Insectoids and Archnoids were born from a dying god's wish that passed on to the Deity Darkflame, the creator of shadow dimensions, who wanted a change and secretly created a colorful dimension called Htrae. He placed the Insectoids on the planet for them to thrive like the other humanoids in places like the Forgotten Realms. Sadly the other gods found out and passed it on to the God of Alien dimensions who changed it to his will, causing the Insectoids to say farewell to Htrae and split off into different Realms, dimensions, and planets. The ant Insectoids who split off are excepted in humanoid towns and usually work for people by digging out mines, the ones who aren't in society dig out their own places to live in the ground.

A Broad Spectrum

Ants have a diverse spectrum with 12,000 different species of themselves roaming the entire universe and every realm.

Lot's of varity, in jobs.

An Ant Insectoid usually is seen working in a town or village by digging mines and tending bars but they like to do a verity of other jobs that people most likely won't see them doing from constructing buildings all the way to being a King or Queen.

EVERYBODY'S BEST FRIEND

Ant Insectoids like to work with a lot people and often form strong bonds with them so they have good things to say about other races.

Dwarves. “Surprisingly strong for their size and like working in the mines with us, their good friends and an even better companion while in battle even if they like to keep their gold for themselves.”

Elves. “Elves really don't like other people stepping into their property but who am I to blame them? Working with them is fine, especially if we are hunting for food or trekking in the woods. Humans say we could learn a lot if they got past that Racial Pride or whatever but we have already learned a lot from them! I think...”

Halflings. “Halflings do hard work for their farms and food and I appreciate that but they don't really trust us making one of our ant hills near their crops because there is a chance us burrowing destroys their crops, but otherwise we seem to have strong bonds with them like most other races.”

 

Not so brave

Ant Insectoids like to adventure out into the wild, and come back telling stories of them defeating armies of kobolds and a dragon while just barely surviving on scraps of meat while trying to find the dragon, but most of their brave feats are defending a village or surviving a dangerous cave. They have done most of the same brave feats over and over again and wish to be like their ancestors who traveled from Htrae into an unknown world and survived without knowing anything about the place, but only a few want to step up to the challenge because the previous others that have had their lives taken.

 

Insectoid (Ant) Traits

It’s hard to make generalizations about Insectoids, but your Ant character has these traits.

Tremorsense

You can sense vibrations in the ground 30 feet away.

Ant vision

Your vision is in black and white.

Extra Arms

Since your an Ant and have more arms then a normal humanoid you can hold 6 items instead of 2.

Stronger the you think

Ant Insectoids can hold twice their weight!

Ability Score Increase

Your ability scores each increase by 1.

Age

Insectoids reach adulthood in their late teens but live 2 decades.

Alignment

Ant Insectoids tend to tend to a good alignment.

Size

Ant Insectoids are usually 10 to 8 feet tall and are rarely 5 or 6 feet tall.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet and your base burrow speed is 10.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Tap Speak, and one extra language of your choice.