Mites train insects. Or are you looking at PC races?
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What would I mount on giant mantises?
It's what they do. I remember a f'ing huge giant centipede in Kingmaker.
Sure, I expect they lose a few mites in the process - their home didn't seem like an exhibition of perfect Health and Safety practices - but they appear to be willing to wear that cost.
Some sort of Asian-culture inspired halflings? Honor guards in the royal garden, specializing in ambush tactics. Netting or tanglefoot'ing someone as they're skewered by a giant praying mantis would be problematic, or just going all-out offense and lancing them (with some suitably weird-looking, barbed lances), or taking to the air while you rain down javelins or darts?
And as far as giant bugs are concerned:
-bandits on dragonflies.
-desert nomads on scorpions.
-bounty hunters on fireflies.
-a Mad Max-style crew on a variety. The tracker on his wasp, the brute on a stag beetle, the alchemist on his bombardier beetle, the necromancer on his bottle fly.
I've also gotten a lot of mileage out of going into the details on what kind of giant bug it is, exactly. A fight with a giant trapdoor spider feels vastly different than one with a cellar spider. Goblins dumping foot-long house centipedes on you is just...so much grosser than what one typical imagines.
Grippli?
It would have to be a small race - they only have a 16 Str.
That's the same as the Strength of a Light Horse. You get carry capacity bonuses for being a Large creature and for being a Quadruped (which I think describes them better than 'Biped', the other category listed). This gives a light load limit of 228lbs and a medium load limit of 459lbs.
red armored assassins
The rules are kinda ambiguous on the subject.
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Halfling Druids with the Animal-Insect domain, who have a couple of insect swarms with them. Plague Locust Swarms might be fun.
Cape of Wasps maybe?
I could see vine leshy cohabiting with the things as they'd be camouflage for one another.
I'd put some Dromites on them. Mix it up a little bit. A nest of Dromites have domesticated the giant mantises.
It's what they do. I remember a f'ing huge giant centipede in Kingmaker.
Sure, I expect they lose a few mites in the process - their home didn't seem like an exhibition of perfect Health and Safety practices - but they appear to be willing to wear that cost.
LOL! Cool, I'm sold. Maybe a trio of Verminous Hunters and a double handful of other mites, a few with bugs of their own...seems like it'll work.
Ugh, might not. No giant preying mantis on the list. Hmmm...
Giant mantis. Though they don't have to be animal/vermin companions, they could be trained mounts without being companions.
A progressively smaller series of mantises, each on each other's backs...