Giant Ants (5e Race)

Giant Ant

"The Giant Ants got up on two legs and started to talk I was nearly scared out of my boots" -Leo's epic adventure

"The Giant Ants brought us food and water when we where near death they saved our lives" -Neo's Journal

Physical Description

Giant Ants look Identical to their unintelligent Ancestors execpt for the fact that they walk on four legs instead of the six their ancestors did.

History

Giant Ants were once monsters that terrorized people that came anywhere near their territory but, a crazed wizard and his party fought their way inside the Giant Ant's territory and stole several of their eggs. The wizard conducted several experiments on the eggs until the hatched and once they did he found they had gained intelligence of a humanoid at once the wizard locked them up in a large enclosure after a few generations of he started splitting groups off and putting them in different enclosures causing them to mutate which led to them mutating into new subspecies. With new subspecies and greater intelligence the Ants escaped the Wizards enclosures and spread across the land into environments that suited them best.

Society

The Giant Ant society is matriarchal with one queen ruling them and all the other ants living to serve and protect the queen. Due to their greater intelligence their hill they live in is highly complex and is on the same level of security as a human town would have. Their society has poor views on wizards due to their past but, they do revere anyone who shows druidic talent. The Giant Ant society alters very little from region to region except for their hunting style. Giant Ant society is reserved but some have left in curiosity or in spite of their society to go and join adventuring parties.

Giant Ant Names

Male: Anthrax

Female: Mandible

Giant Ant Traits

A race of giant ants
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2 "As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature."
Age. 50-80 years
Alignment. Giant Ants tend to be more neutral since they don't abide by societies rules as a normal humanoid would.
Size. Giant Ants range from 5 feet to 6 feet your size is Medium
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet. Your digging speed is 15 feet.
Tremorsense. You have Tremorsense out to 30 feet
Exoskeleton. your thick exoskeleton protects you when wearing no armor you AC equals 12+Dexterity
Extra carrying. Due to your species society of carrying things your carrying capacity is doubled
Bite. Your unarmed strikes become bites dealing 1d4 + Dexterity
Species. Choose a Species listed at the bottom of this page
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.

Fire ant

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom increases by +1
Fire Bite. Your Bite deals a extra 2 fire damage
Fire resistance. Your affinity to fire causes you to be resistant to fire damage

Bulldog ant

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength increases by +1
stronger Bite. Your Bite damage increases to 1d6 + Dexterity due to your increased mandible size
Strong jump. Your able to jump twice the distance you normally would be able to

Flying ant

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity increases by +1
flight. You have a flying speed of 15 feet. You fall if you end your turn in the air and nothing else is holding you aloft.
Slow descent. You take half fall damage due to air resistance from your wings

Random Height and Weight

Base Height	Height Modifier*	Base Weight	Weight Modifier**
5′ 60″	++4	150 lb.	× (+12) lb.
*Height = base height + height modifier **Weight = base weight + (height modifier × weight modifier)

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