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Hey all, my home group is finishing up Devastation Ark which we started w/ the same characters we finished Fly Free or Die with. Next up is going to be Horizons of the Vast (Space Kingmaker on unexplored world) and I'll be playing a Neurochemist Biohacker1/Medic Empath Mystic11.
I REALLY like the idea of playing a sentient swarm but bugs freak me out so my DM is letting me have it made out of something else, off the top of my head i was thinking birds since i was going to have my characters voice be melodic like a choir in perfect harmony, but at normal human "inside voice" volume. My other thought was a variety of plants.
That said I'd like to hear some suggestions of what might be interesting but not too bug like (butterflies included :P)
Oh if it matters were going with Xenni-labs and i'm a sort of scientist/doctor and only the fluff is changing nothing mechanically. Here's the race: (each creature in the swarm fits roughly in a 1 inch cube)
https://aonsrd.com/Races.aspx?ItemName=Spathinae
Very tiny humans.
(1) Micro-machines (as opposed to nannites)
(2) a sapient collective of plankton or phytoplankton
(3) an accumulation of sentient motes of dust, sand, and soil
(4) something like a bacterial culture or viral mass, in line with an ooze or what have you
(5) a psychically extradimensional interlocking avatar of crystalline particulate
(6)...a Voltron of Doc Suess's Who's
(1) Micro-machines (as opposed to nannites)
(2) a sapient collective of plankton or phytoplankton
(3) an accumulation of sentient motes of dust, sand, and soil
(4) something like a bacterial culture or viral mass, in line with an ooze or what have you
(5) a psychically extradimensional interlocking avatar of crystalline particulate
(6)...a Voltron of Doc Suess's Who's
3, 4 and 5 are definitely getting added to list :)
1) is too similar to my current character who is an SRO Power armor mechanic so i want to avoid robot/tech stuff
6) i a little too silly but it DID make me smile so bonus points for that
2) doesnt interest me for some reason, think i want to avoid something to similar to the fish swarm that inspired me
(7) Living ashes, still possessed by the spirit and will of a former life form.
(8) Atomic ghost like Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen.
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A spirit inhabiting their old rock collection, basically a swarm of pretty rocks and crystals and such.
here's what i have so far thanks to many peoples suggestions :)
Swarm Creatures: Ferrets, Dragons, Various Plants, Frogs, Owlcats, Bears, Monkeys, Birds, Giant extremely miniature space Hamsters (We are Boo!), Ashes/Dust/Sand/Dirt/Earth, Crystals, Gems, Oozes, Living Pixel Art, Beholders
Please keep em' coming you all are really helping my imagination run wild :)
A sentient meme war. Scholars still debate if it went horribly horibly right or wrong.
Harmonic superstrings
chinese medicine balls with the chimes
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Maybe take a page from the shakalta's book and be a collection of tiny motes of light? Sentient stardust, if you will.
Well yeah, that's why the two wonder how their infiltration missions always get busted by a cleaning crew.
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I had a dumb concept for a spathinae that was made up of hyper-motile bacterial enzymes and mammalian milk proteins bound into a quasi-coagulated, semi-congealed form, aka a sapient cheese person.
"Tremble and despair, puny Pactlings, for thy hour is come! I am Camembert the Destructor, scourge of the myriad stars, runner of noses, and bringer of a thousand-thousand tears!"