Formian Worker
Level 1Attacks
Abilities
Formians operate from a shared hive intelligence that allows them to communicate nearly instantaneously. While within telepathic range of at least one other formian from the same hive mind, a formian worker gains a +2 circumstance bonus to initiative checks, Perception checks, and saving throws against mental effects. If one formian is aware of a combatant, all members of the hive mind within range are aware of it.
When using the Aid action to assist another formian from the same hive mind within range of its hive link, if the formian worker rolls a success, they get a critical success instead, and if they roll a critical failure, they get a failure instead.
Formian workers excel at heavy labor. A formian worker can carry 5 additional bulk beyond the normal limits for their Strength before becoming encumbered or overburdened.
By far the most common formian on Akiton, workers are focused and industrious, naturally skilled at manual labor and coordinating with peers.
Formians resemble unusually large ants with an insectile humanoid's upper torso. More powerful or influential formians are physically larger; common formian workers are roughly the height of a gnome, while the largest formians, such as taskmasters and queens, rival a giant in size.
Formian society is a strict matriarchy. Though each hive's queen is theoretically independent and her rule absolute, allegiances are common, and less powerful hives often (grudgingly) defer to more powerful matriarchs.