Homebrew Antimated Species Details

Antimated are corpuses that are being controlled by colony of ants. These ants were born by way of freak accident. Somewhere deep in the woods, a sorcerer was cooking up a mind control spell. When all of the sudden, it blew up and hit a near by ants nest. These ants became hyper intelligent and psychic. These ants became leaders of their own ant colonies, and those colonies just so happened to be located in the corpses of other creatures. The head ant compels all other ants to do their bidding, and that comes in the form of acting as muscle fibers in the body. The head ant, the ant with the powers, is all the brain. When the head ant is about to die, they settle down to breed and create tons of new head ants. This species is always looking for ways to entertain itself. Since it can take the form of any medium or small creature, it often gets up to shenanigan's.

Antimated get a +1 in both Dex and Str, due to them not needing to comply to regulars anatomy and being strong bugs! They live to be only 20 years of age, but are mature at 30 days. They reproduce by mating with a queen ant to pass on the genes just before death. This leads to them having no real family structure, and they tend to be nomadic thrill seekers. As such, they are usually social outcast's, this may also be due to fact that they control a  dead body.

Antimated Traits

Since Antimated are a bunch of ants, they can do so many things that a living perosn couldn't!

Drop dead healthy

Your health is double the base health of the creetur you are inhabiting, relative to your level. But you can not heal through conventional means. You have to switch bodies in order to regai health. You can only switch once per long rest. If you are knocked unconscious, you will be revived with one hit point once becoming stable.

Speak insect

You can speak to any bug.

Dark vision

SInce you are a bug, you can see in the dark up to 60ft.

Breaking anatomy

Since you can move your body any which way. You get advantage on any Dex saving throw.

Armor up

Your armor proficiencies change depending on the the lineage of the body you are inhabiting.