A reporter, seeking the latest buzz.

Beekeeper here

Play an awakened hive of bees. Every three months, make another hive of bees and send it into the world.

Propigate your kind!

you can take squeeze rules to a whole new level.

i'd hate to see what could be done to anything bigger than Medium.

>>12498599
That's pretty awesome. Formation of a new campaign race. How long would it take to get a decent population?

bzz bzz. bzz bzz.

Play a dire bee in search of Royal Jelly to become a queen.

>>12498606
well, you can make two or three hives a season naturally. More, I bet, if you were intelligent and actively focused on babymaking like some kind of insane bee-bard.

And, if those three hives make three hives a summer... lemme calculate this...


after ten years, there will be 59,049 beehives, given they live that long.

there will probably be dieoff, so yeah. it's probably less than that, but it's pretty fast.

>>12498591
They could write by dipping their feet in ink and walking in coordinated fashion over the pages.

Should probably hang a robe or something over the swarm just to prevent awkward questions or swatting.

Man, swatting? What alignment? That could turn nasty.

>>12498599
>>12498620

I just want you to know you're the greatest poster ever.

>>12498620
That can be the retirement plan.

Does your swarm need to stay together in order to maintain mental cohesion, or can you send one or two out individually as spies, as long as the central hive survives intact?
This could make for a very effective rogue.

Will your DM allow your swarm to become more intelligent or more powerful, the greater the number in your swarm?

And for combat you could Zerg Rush an opponent, covering them in bees, going in ears, nose, mouth, and attacking the eyes.

i had a player do this in a sci-fi campaign. not a serious one, but a campaign none the less. he was a space suit filled with sentient bees, and he was the most heroic character in the game. sadly, as a suit of bees, he lacked a lot of social graces.

Play Eclipse Phase. This sort of character comes standard right out of the box.

Just make a normal guy who's COVERED IN BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWRz_-0B1qw

Does anybody have that (either homebrewed or official) 4e Swarm race that was on /tg/ at some point in this one thread? It might give mechanical inspiration (this sounds pretty 3.5) as to just exactly how a fucking swarm character would work

>>12498624
>>12498606
additional bee powers include:

A harvesting range of five miles (sometimes more in times of starvation)

They can form a beard on whatever they're sitting on to cool themselves

If something dies and it's too big to move, they just entomb it in wax and it becomes a mummy

You can probably inject your genes into any natural beehives around with males of your hive, thus awakening their offspring and increasing your propigation exponentially, if the DM allows it

>>12498628
I figure abusing it would probably get the license to play it revoked quite quickly so I'm imagining no super special powers for the moment. I'll ask my DM about splitting up the swarm but I think it wouldn't be something I could casually do.

>>12498622
Something lawful, not sure which. I'm just going to try and avoid having a bee swatted. If it happens I'm not sure what I'll do.

>>12498650
Oh that is so cool. You are so cool.

>Suddenly bees.
>BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

>>12498659
>>12498657

OH GOD NOT THE BEES! THEY'RE IN MY EYES!

THIS WOULD MAKE A GOOD COMBAT STRATEGY IF A SWARM WERE PLAYABLE IN AN RPG

>>12498652
A healthy beehive can produce over 40 pounds of honey in one harvest- it ranges quite a bit.

Harvests usually come in at the beginning of a crop cycle in the local area- bees get a heck of a lot of nectar from crops.

During the flowering portions of crop cycles, the intelligent bee would gain the ability to place honey wherever it wished. The same goes for wax, but wax is all summer long. it is a fatty byproduct of the digestion of pollen in bees.

bees don't get pollen in the winter.

>>12498666
>666 and Bees in Eyes attack.

GUYS!! GUYS!! GUYS!!!

one word
ZOMBEES!!!

>>12498669
For one, remember that your bees will need to sustain themselves with most of that honey for nutrition.

For another, how the do you handle winter? Cloak of Not-immolation-but-slightly-toasty?

oh, i just remembered.

hey OP. i know who you could play.

hornets, bees, same difference. just replace the TOMMY GUN with a repeating crossbow, and GRENADE with an acid vial. stay away from smoke and Snakes.

Hornet is cuter.

But OP I wonder how you're going to roleply a swarm of bees.

>>12498696
Hivemind

>>12498681
actually, I meant 40 surplus honey pounds.

Aside from the ~20-30some pounds I leave for them after the harvest.

The 40 LB is the excess honey. if they used ALL THAT HONEY to make bees instead of for just whatever, the rate of hive production would go up.

>>12498696
It'll depend on the alignment I choose, I think. Hivemind in any case though.

>>12498699
Oh saying everything with the word We.
"We desire honey to build our forces"
"We desire to rest in this area"
"We desire to kill all of you"

>>12498696

Simple. Play it like Legion from Mass Effect 2.

>>12498705
Won't be able to speak except by telepathy, I suspect. Just buzz a lot. I plan to use the swarm to make emotive sign language.

Although speaking of telepathy, maybe I should pick a psionic class and run psychic bees. That would explain the intelligence, I suppose.

>>12498705
That reminds me. Abuse the hell out of Harbinger jokes.

>>12498711
if you're intelligent, you could form a supercolony of multiple queens

Your HP would be directly tied to how many insects are part of you, and additionally, how intelligent you are.

neat!

>>12498717
Get beat up, flip into insensate barbarian mode? That sounds pretty cool.

>>12498714
Dawwwwwwwww.
>>12498711
Now I'm imagining a Bees swarm making the middle finger.

>>12498717
But how would your party reign you in after combat? It's not like new bees can pop out instantly.

>>12498717

>supercolony of multiple queens

Each queen is sentient and has a different personality. There's an aggressive gung-ho queen, a diplomatic serene queen, a practical queen, an idealist one, etc. Each queen assumes direct control during appropriate situations (they're elected by the bee collective according to what needs to be done).

>>12498745
well, you would go down to a minimum of 3 int. I don't think you can really go lower than that.

You'll be stupid as hell if you take a TREMENDOUS BEATING, but everyone else will be dying or dead. hell, stupid as hell IS dying or dead. Just cure wounds on the bee hive and hopefully any bees that were simply maimed (this happens a lot) will get healed, bringing you back to smarts.

>>12498752
oh, also, bees automatically return to their home hive if they are lost and are able.

>>12498750
If he did that, then they're ought to be the adventurer queen who likes visiting exotic locales for the different pollination and the effects it'll have on the hive's honey.

Take it a bit further and depending on what the vegetation or lack-there-of of the area you harvested last was like, it can have a slight (SLIGHT) impact on your swarm's stats (clear it with the DM, of course).

>>12498752
Oh. The way you were describing it made it sound like the swarm would be stuck in perma-Barbarian Rage mode until healed.

This thread is why /tg/ is a very good board.

>>12498774
because there are... beekeepers here?

GASP dedicate some of your swarm to different classes, so you have some that can heal the other bees with magics/divine powers/mundane healing powers.

OH SHE WHO LIVES IN THE GREAT COMB IN THE SKY. HELP US HEAL OUR WOUNDED SWARM, SO WE MAY CONTINUE OUR QUEST. AND MAY FLOWERS BE FULL OF POLLEN AND OUR STOMACHS FULL OF NECTAR. BZZ.

>>12498774
No kidding. But that's mainly because it's night/early morning.

It's not like the mods decided to put that horrid sticky up for no reason.

/nostalgia

Pic related.

I mean. Bees are nice and all with their (probobly lawful neutral) but these hornets are probobly chaotic evil. They just do shit for their amusement and doesnt afraid of anything

1 of them finds a hive of bees (european, the native has learned to counter this trick) and then just wait outside and kill them as they one by one gets out of the hive. I mean by god, they can kill an entire hive in 20 minutes. Alone. And with a little math that tells us one hornet kills like 2 bees / second.

Top this with a flesh melting venom designed to cause maximum pain

>信州　favory
Captcha prefer honest favory.

Good luck

>>12498780
Dude, that just sounds OP. I doubt the DM would let that fly unless you made everyone really underpowered.

OH MY GOD THAT GIVES ME AN IDEA, MAKE A BARD SWARM.

ALL MUSIC IS DONE THROUGH BUZZING.

>>12498782
the difference between a +1 and +3 LA adjustment, right there

also, you get like 40,000 bees and only 2000 hornets

>>12498786

>>12498780
I think that would probably be kind of cheating. I don't know what class to pick yet, suggestions welcome.

>>12498765
>>12498750
I quite like this supercolony idea.

>>12498741
Pretty much, yeah.

>>12498782
But Japanese honey bees can swarm all over those fuckers and pretty much cook them to death.

Then unceremoniously dump the corpse outside of their hive and continue with business as usual.

>>12498786
Yeah I might just have to do this that would be awesome.

Someday I want to make a thri-kreen swarm druid in 4e that turns into a shitload of teeny-tiny humans.

I'll fluff him as a bee person instead of a mantis person.

>>12498787
The hell with level adjustments. A swarm of bees can't use standard gear.

>>12498786
Nay, dancing! Bee Swarm Bard with Profession: Dancer, I say!

Mostly, I was just amused with the idea of a bee (swarm) cleric/paladin

>>12498799
Thousands and thousands of bees, each in tiny clerical vestiments...

>>12498782

European hornets are actually pretty chill towards humans and only get aggressive if you threaten their nests. Its good to have them around as they keep the pesky wasps and mosquitos at bay. How about your japanese hornets? How aggressive are those towards humans?

>>12498798
They can if they're psionic.

>>12498802
Precisely! Each buzzing in tune, like a choir hymn.
Wouldn't that be terrifying?

>>12498802
>>12498807
this is why I love you /tg/,

>>12498787
True, true.
But if 2000 of these fuckers would get organized all hell would rain down on earth.
It might just be my slight phobia speaking but I have some facts to back it up with.
For example that they cause more deaths than all the other animals combined in japan.

I just wanted to tell you that.

Oh an one thing. A swarm of bees. Wouldn't they be very sensitive to basically anything from a strong wind to fire?

>>12498805
What, you mean like picking up a sword or wearing shoes?

I say, you go for a flavorbrewed "master of masks"
Except with additional queens rather than masks.
You'd need bluff, disguise, and preform skills, and know 4 languages.

Or for something slightly more psionically inclined, mindbender gets telepathy at low level, but is based on caster classes.

http://arthropocalypse.forum-motion.com

Arthropocalypse thread?

Seriously, more stuff needs to get done with Arthropocalypse.

>>12498813
>sensitive to strong wind to fire?

A ring of resist elements, my friend, and suddenly the ancestral evils of rain and wind no longer affect you.

Fire, however, is the bane of most swarms.

>>12498815
Telekinetic hivemind can do anything it wants. Refluff its strength score as psy energy that affects the world around it.

>>12498826
Yeah my first thought was Psychic Warrior. But Bard sounds really awesome. Paladin too, just for the crazy god I'd pick or create.

>>12498830
Beesus.

>>12498839
He fed the five trillion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuTY0JUQC_k&p=6D82AA7738F74DE9&playnext=1&index=13

obligatory.

>>12498846
The pollen has become honey! It's a miracle! Praise Beesus!

OP, don't forget that Bees in Flowers are little, inter-kingdom lesbian orgies.

>>12498839
YES.

Besus of Bzzareth. He was the Saviour of Beekind, who stopped the death of the first Bee God, Bahweh in the hands of the Hornet God of War, Allarnt. He loves all Bees and teaches them to do good in this world and that sacrifice is sometimes the best road.

All Bee Paladins worship Besus, whilst many Bee Clerics worship Bahweh.

Wouldn't bees be the perfect spies? Bee assasin/spies/rogues would rock. Oh I'm just a little bee buzzing about don't mind me, oh I'm a little be picking locks, Oh I'm a little bee POURING OUT OF EVERYTHING YOU OWN TO STING YOU MOTHERFUCKER! Don't mess with the hive.

Bee bard or bee marshal, inspiring courage like a pro.

BEELEVE IN ME WHO BEELEVES IN YOU!

YOURS IS THE STINGER THAT SHALL PIERCE THE HEAVENS!

>>12498824
But how do the bees wear that ring?

>>12498866
Sons of Apis, of Hymenoptera. My brothers. I see in your compound eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come, when the courage of bees fail, when we forsake our hive and break all bonds of Fellowship, but it is not this day! An hour of swatters and children throwing rocks when the age of bees comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you, stand, bees of the West!

>>12498872
Like a belt :D

>>12498872
its a half-ling sized ring, the queen wears it as a crown

>>12498860
>>12498856
>>12498839

>>12498872

how does Bzzd wear his GL ring

either a small ring, or a hive-hand, which the swarm is built around.

>>12498883
This is beelievable. And awesome.

Plausibly have a honeycomb/hive golum/construct/some other form of automation.

>>12498782
So hornets are spawn campers?

Also guys, I think we have an RTS/Grand strategy game in the making

>>12498895
Oh lord, the bee puns...

>>12498899
See
>>12498822

>>12498822
THIS!

>>12498866
AND THIS! PIC RELATED

>>12498906
Doesn't looks like shit actually got done, but I'd play the fuck out of that.

>>12498929
It's a long-term work in progress. A thread gets made here, people go back and work on it, things slow to a halt, then another thread gets made...

>>12498930
Usually, if something doesn't gets done really quickly it never does.

The colours mean something you know.
I don't know what they mean, but they mean something.

>>12498932
You just summed up my sexual life.

>>12498935
That flower looks like it's exceptionally angry. D:

>>12498932
I'm just saying what I saw. They got a goodly chunk of it done.

>>12498935
That's pretty cool.

>>12498942
and it is the bee paladin shield. they are quite the angry and self-sacrificing bunch.

>butgical quality
Erm.. thank.. you.. captcha?

>>12498967
Fuck yeah. Campaign ender

>>12498978
Doubt it's going to stop the apparent psychic superswarm schizophrenic paladin this thread has apparently produced. Thank Beesus, that Beesus is a benevolent god, because his servant are terrifying beyond belief.

>>12498991
>beeyond beelief.
FTFY.

>>12498950
*shrugs* the main pattern i found in google images, so it's not particularly impressive. anyway

Beesus, joy of bee's desiring,
Holy wisdom, love most bright.
Drawn by Thee, our souls aspiring ,
Soar to uncreated light.
Word of God, our flesh that fashioned
With nectar of life impassioned,
Striving still to Truth unknown,
Soaring, flying 'round Thy throne.

Obviously, the thing you must do is be a Swarm of Bees that, through either arcane or divine means, is able to raise fallen bees from the dead into either skeleton or zombie bees which all join the main hive which is to never cease breeding.

>>12499004
>Bzzbzz, bzz bzz bzz bzzbzzbzz,
>Bzzbzz bzzbz, bzz bzz bzz.
>Bzz bzz Bzz, bzz bzz bzzbzzbzz,
>Bzz bzz bzz-bzzbzzbzz bzz
>Bzz bzz Bzz, bzz bzz bzz bzzbzz
>Bzz bzzbzz bzz bzz bzzbzzbzz
>Bzzbzz bzz bzz Bzz bzzbzz,
>Bzzbzz, bzzbzz 'zz Bzz bzz.

FTFY

>>12499018
Well played, anon. Well played.

Bee fighter: Carry around weapons, or just use the stingers for your own style?
Bee Cleric: BEEZUS BEE WITH YOU
Beebarian: OH GOD RAGING BEES
Bee Wizard: I'm just a little bumble bee, don't mind me, EI NATH

>>12499032
Ooh, I got a new idea. Bee Merchant.
Sell all the spare honey and wax and stuff you make!

so, here some of my ideas...
How about the swarm controlling a body (like the devil wasps that controls zombies), that they made out of their own wax? this way they can wear gear, wax is pretty soft and flexible, and the healing can be represented as fixing the waxbody over time. Also, this would be a good storage for the honey, and the bees could hide in case of winter. And in case something hits the hive body too hard... SWARM OUT AND BRING BEE HELL IN HIS FACE

The hive body would have skin of wax, bones of whatever they take as a base and blood made of honey. And of course, FLESH MADE OF BEES!

That would fix the gear thing. also it would present idiots going around and trying to fireball the poor swarm. (you would still have to look out for that though, wax is not exactly known for fire resistance)

For class, well, psionics sounds good (warrior or whatever). Bard sounds funny as hell, and cleric would be Beesus

http://www.ravenmimura.com/images/full/VerminLord.jpg

One of these but with bees.
Or maybe the soul or whatever from an ancient and powerful wizard that came back to life and took control of the swarm of bees... In time he starts to really like and worry about the bees, so he starts thinking like bees and doing stuff bees like or need to survive. He then makes a plan to conquer the world for the bees and to turn every living species into bee hybrids.
The Beesus idea is awesome too.

No one has mentioned swarmshitter druids from 4e? They can turn into a swarm of bees and never return to human form.

>>12499044
I'm imagining a humansized bee barfing up honey in a small shop with the sign
"Fresh honey. Straight from the "Farm""

>>12499057
first of all, we are talking about 3.5 here, so cease the 4e.
second, good idea! DRUID BEE SWARM! summon all the insects of the planes to do your will!

>>12499059
"ew."
"What? Milk comes from a cow's behind."

>>12499059
they dont exactly barfing it, its more like drooling
And the wax doesnt come out their mouths...

>>12499068
Except it does not.

>>12499064
We're already talking about stuff you can't do in 3e, so swarmshitters are fine.

>>12499064
this doesn't sound like bee-hitler at all, oh no. not the super race of aryan bees who wishes to destroy/make those below them kneel down to their superior knees.

>>12499081
bees have knees?

>>12499085
well, yeah. not quite the same as our knees, but they have what can be called knees.

>>12499088
kneel before our bees knees for bees knees beeing good for kneeling in front of bees knees!

>>12499096

has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Oh God. Imagining a fleet of Bee Bards buzzing "Love is a Battlefield".

Now try to get the bass beat out of your head.

>>12499105
Pfeh. Flight of the bumblebee.

>>12499114

Ride of the Valkyries

The honey must flow.

>>12499101
Ramirez has.

The commissar was having a stroke.

>>12499122
This is the terrifying one out of the three.

>>12499135

think we're clever do we

bzz. This thread may need an archive. bzz.

Whatever you go with OP, make sure that you get one special racial attack:

Stingers of Death.


You get to sacrifice some of your own HP for a scaling amount of damage on your target, as the loyal and selfless members of your hive give themselves so the rest may live.


Then they are buried afterwards in tiny little graves.

>>12499183
Yesss

>>12499183


Addendum:

If target is of a humanoid race, they roll d100 to see if they are allergic to beestings.

1-97 - Fine

98 - Mild allergy, add some more damage

99 - Strong allergic reaction, double damage

100 - Fatal allergic reaction, INSTADEATH.

>>12499096
Nice.

>Then they are buried afterwards in tiny little graves.

>>12498651
Lawful good hive of bees.
Play a paladin.

PHB2.

Beeguiler.

If its a hivemind then the best class for you is factotum. Refluff inspiration as individual bees with specialized skills. Fucking god tier.

Also, aren't bees far-roaming as fuck? You could just be one hivemind drone sent out by a fuckhueg hive aiming to increase its wealth and influence through you. SO MANY POSSIBILITIES.

>>12499047
It's kind of cute imagining a former tyrant being really overprotective of individual bees.

>>12499525
A Thousand little smite evil sucide attack.

>>12499709

Holy shit. The bee adventurer is an ambassador from WAXONIA, THE LAND OF BEES which is just one giant hive of sentient bees, covering an island.

Damn, I left this thread for a few hours and there are even more good ideas!

>>12499709
This sounds pretty awesome to roleplay.

>>12499183
Man, I would never be able to use that. I have trouble sending random peasants into battle, let alone integral parts of my character.

>>12499047
>>12499064
>>12499057
Druid was one of the first things I thought of, but it seems a little obvious. The bee Hitler druid sounds like a good lawful evil character though.

Thanks to everyone for contributing.

>>12499628
Beeserker.

>>12499748
Thousands of bees in woad warpaint with little metal katars?

>>12499732
It's like stabbing your opponents with breakable claws. They'll grow back.

>>12499748
MY LOVE FOR YOU IS GREAT BIG HIVE, BEESERKER!
WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKING JIVE? BEESERKER!

>Last part refers to that bee flower dance thing, I guess.

>>12499753
Blue bees would bee terrifying.

Also, there is a swarmshifter template thats only +1 LA. Its in Libris mortis, and normally only applies to undead, but you don't need to to tweak it at all to have it apply to something living. Probably the easiest route to take, rules wise. Just slap it on a human, eat the +1 LA, and be able to adopt the shape of a swarm of bees at will (and just refluff your humanoid shape as being made of bees).

>>12499763
Why would they be more terrifying than yellow bees?

The thing that would be weird with a druid is using Shapechange. Like... what would you turn yourself into? A swarm of bees turning into a dire bear? That's pretty whacked out.

>>12499774

Maybe you could turn yourself into a swarm of wasps. Or hornets.

It's almost appalling that nobody has mentioned Beeman of Dr. McNinja fame yet.

Somebody archive this shit.

FOR THE HIVE

YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL COMBS.

WE NEED MORE BEESPENE GAS.

etc.

>>12499780
That's probably heresy.

>>12499782
He's not actually made of bees though.

>>12499774
>>A swarm of bees turning into a dire bear? That's pretty whacked out.

The guard turning into a rogue.

OBSERVE AS WE, GUARDIANS OF THE GLORIOUS NECTAR, BECOME THE HULKING THIEF! DESPAIR AT OUR RENDING CLAWS AND SHAGGY ARMOR!

>>12499774
So, like.. Some sort of dire beear?

I'll get my coat.

>>12499794
Awshitniggerfuckingfivestarpost.jpg

>>12499732
well you could use it in a heroic sacrifice when all your bees sting at the same time for massive damage when nothing else is available

It occurs to me that bees are ideally suited to sneak attacks. You're doing your normal fighting thing, hack slash whack okay sure, when out of the blue...

AUGH MY BALLS! THEY STUNG MY BALLS! HOW DID THEY EVEN GET IN--AUUUUGH THIS IS PAIN BEYOND ALL RECKONING!

>>12499829
I wonder how they get bees for that mission


"so listen up guys in the middle of a heroic battle I want 10 of you to crawl in his armor, go for his balls and sacrifice yourself to make him impotent... any questions?"

>>12499843
"..."
"Uh, actually I'd rather not do tha-"
"ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL"

Actually, you wouldn't have to do it in the battle. You could do it beforehand, and walk up to/past your now fetal-prone opponents who are writhing on the ground instead of preparing to fight.

The hive would have an interesting view of the world...

Can individual bees even hear voices? They have decent eyesight, at least for certain colours and patterns...

"soniko supplied"

Not interested, sorry.

Play a carnivorous bee isntead, that'll be easier for a traveling hive of bees...And how are you going to transport your hive?

>>12499909
Cohorts.

>>12499774

Any be that isn't the color you would expect a bee to be is terrifying because a bee should be the color that a bee should be.

You know, I'm reminded of a great story from when a few buddies of mine tried acid. They didn't think to have someone staying normal (THIS IS A MISTAKE). Not immediately feeling anything they went to the backyard to throw the football around. This happens for a couple minutes. Then all of a sudden Jim looks down at the guy he's about to pass the ball to and sees a terrifying hallucination. So of course he blurts out: "DUDE, there's a bunch of bees around your balls!"

Derrin looks down in horror, and his acid-filled mind fills in all the details of an angry swarm. He takes swift action. His fist flies upward, and then...

WHAM! Fist to the balls. "AAAUGH! THEY'RE STINGING ME!!" Derrin shouts in pain. Jim helps by adding, "Get 'em man! Get 'em!"

Cue multiple strikes to the balls as Derrin smashes his fist into his own man parts again and again, screaming about how the bees were the cause for all his pain. He finally passes out and is carted inside, only to wake up hours later with no clue what had happened. They didn't tell him what caused the worst pain he'd ever felt down there for almost an hour, the jerks.

>>12499909
the drones carry it
like some sort of living hive

>>12499774
Each bee, shapeshifting into TINY BEARS
OH GOD TINY BEAR SWARM. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>12500068
Oh god, that would bee unbearable.

>>12500068
beears?

beeump

>>12499784
Obviously, you mean "vesbeene gas".

>>12500614
tiny bears with wings and stingers...

>>12499780
WHAT ABOUT A LEGION OF SPIIIIDERS

Anyone else remember the thread about Beeman who could turn into a swarm of bees and have MILLIONS OF TINY FISTFIGHTS AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT?

>>12501050
http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/8987449

Just remember OP

BEES DIE WHEN THEY STING PEOPLE, DON'T DO IT UNLESS YOU REALLY REALLY MEAN IT!

Bee a caster of some kind and specialize in touch attacks you should get some kind of attack bonus for being a swarm.

Just imagine in, anon, a swarm of bees chasing you with a slay living spell. Just one of them has to land on you to deliver it...

>>12501171
>Burning Hands.
>Touch of Idiocy.
>Rusting Grasp.
>Heat Metal.
>Chill Touch.
>Touch of Fatigue.
In a matter of a few rounds, they're left weeping uncontrollably in the corner, a drooling idiot.

Because fuck you, paladin.

>>12498803
Japanese hornets kill a dozen or so people every year I think. They're very aggressive and their venom is necrotic.

>>12501291
Who do they kill?

Children, the elderly, healthy adults?

>>12500068

rolled 3 = 3

>>12501313
*clears throat*
BEEARS? BEEARS?!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!

>>12501308
children, elderly, people who are trapped, and people who try to defend children, elderly, and trapped people.

you know, anyone who HANGS AROUND AND GETS STUNG.

>>12501155
Only a very few species of bees actually die when they sting you. Most actually can sting and survive. Only bees with barbed lancets leave the sting, with most of their beehind with it.

So what did you choose, OP?

Hmm... perhaps make the entire swarm an int,elligent entity, with some kind of hive mind. Or, you could do it the lazy way. Give your character levels of druid and have him/her be the "Alpha" bee and the rest are animal companions that count as a "swarm" of insects (just like rules for a swarm of rats).

bump

rolled 68 = 68

what

Have another party member be a sentient plant

and have romantic tension

>>12504792
love triangle with a character who is a sentient swarm of crows

>>12504800
>swarm of crows
>misread "crows" as "cows"

>now picturing swarm of flying cattle

>my face

This is the reason why I love /tg/; only here is it truly probable that we could make a race for SENTIENT BEE HIVE COLLECTIVE PEOPLE.

pic related; Luci-bear's reaction to BEESUS

Here's an interesting angle. Rather than playing the bees as the "characters", you instead have some sort of wax construct controlled by the bees? Like, imagine you see this beautiful woman: pale skin, white hair, and she's singing the most beautiful song, as if with thousands of tiny voices at once. You are awed and run to her to introduce yourself. You say your name, and she opens her mouth to respond, but instead of words, a horrendous black wave of bees pours out and covers you, each one stabbing you with stingers and psionykks.

>>12505387
Doesn't Hellas have something like that?

All this can make me think of us the guy made of bees.

"We are Bees. We hate you."

>>12506544
Love KoL.

You can't spell "bump" without "b".

>>12506532
Myrmidons.

>>12498786

Is this a swarm of bards, or a swarm of bees that collectively constitute a bard?

>>12509655
You mean, without BEEEEEEES

A hive/honeycomb/wax golem controlled by a swarm of bees sounds awesome.

Also, needs more Beehave and Beequiet - the terrifying bees of my youth!

Psychic bee swarm is best. Imagine what you could do with those natural weapon enhancing powers.

Imagine a swarm of vampiric bees. Or god forbid... acid bees.

OP you had beest come back with stories.

Also, this thread is an amazing thing of beeuty. <3

>>12504800
Murder, MURDER of crows.

>>12509807

Holy shit. Someone else who remembers.

Dat Wogan, man, dat Wogan

>>12509822
Vampire bees are no joke. A horde of em will kill off whole continents if they're sentient.

>>12510664
Do they sting you, or suck your blood? This is a pretty important question.

>>12510780
Clearly, they'll STING YOUR BLOOD.

>>12510869
>Sting your blood
Does this mean all my blood turn into more vampire Bees and burst out of my body?

>>12510878
I'm going to say yes, yes it does

>>12510878
Obviously, they just drink your blood.
And then make blood-honey, with bee eggs in it.
Anyone who eats the honey gets vampire bee eggs in their stomach. And then they become the new hive, as hundreds of vampire bee children devour them from the inside-out.
The body is eventually animated via necromancebee, and becomes an ambulatory hive.

OP, this calls for Thrallherd like no character concept before it. You're a psychic swarm of mind stealing bees. Your thrall is a warforged refluffed as a wax golem. You believers are all wearing wax helmets that allow them to be piloted by a member of your swarm.

You're rather put off by all this individuallity nonsense that humanoids have. Can't they see how much more effecian it is to work together for the good of the group? You'll just have to show them how it's done. And what better way than by amassing a tremendous pile of gold! People will be convinced by gold, right? Of course they will! It's the same color as honey! Now just to get some volunteers...

This thread will not die.
It will not bee allowed.