I was working on some material for my current technology themed project Occult Mech Pilots, and I ended up going off on a slight tangent. The image of a person wielding a swarm of nano-machines got stuck in my head and the Hivemind class was the result. As for its swarm, I had a few false starts on contructing it as an entirely unique companion creature, but settled on modeling it as a psicrystal archetype. While the archetype is a core element of the Hivemind, I think it would work just fine for anyone with a psicrystal, the Hivemind just gets more mileage out of it.
Hivemind
Nanite Swarm (Psicrystal Archetype)
As always, feedback, comments, opinions, and suggestions are welcome and appreciated. Thanks.
The hivemind has had a few updates and changes:
- A new necromantic archetype, "The Unity", has been added to the document.
- Favored class bonuses have been added.
- Updated veil list.
- Reinforced Veils renamed to Reinforced Veil, and this ability now progresses to a +2 at level 12.
- Essence invested into the nanite swarm via Swarm Bond now increases the nanite swarm's ability DCs.