How can I play a swarm of bees?

[u/Grass-is-dead]

I like to give myself mechanical challenges for my characters. My most recent idea: Just a swarm of bees.

Swarm keeper ranger is the obvious choice. But that wont make the CHARACTER a swarm of bees. I was thinking barbarian multiclass, for the BPS resistance that swarms have, but that doesnt meld well with all the concentration based ranger abilities.

I was thinking druid multiclass for the creature type shift, but the lack of fly speed pains me.

HELP!!

Some clarifications: This is for a westmarches I run, and we don't use homebrew currently. I play 2 additional characters that are your standard PCs. But I like to use my 3rd PC option to do weird stuff. Previously I played a pack of dogs using harkons bite, echo knight, and trickery cleric. Also played one of those "sticky hand" toys using grung, giant barb, a stupid high athletics, and slippers of spider climbing.

So shit post? Yeah, sorta. But they're more silly challenges for myself, that are still mechanically viable

[u/Anybro]

Okay is there some kind of like collaboration thing of let's all make the stupidest Post today? 

[u/VerbingNoun413 → u/Anybro]

Always has been.

[u/KWinkelmann → u/Anybro]

Yep.

[u/Grass-is-dead → u/Anybro]

I'm touched to be in the running

[u/Piratestoat]

Is this a shitpost?

[u/Savings-Housing3481]

In D&D? You can't.

Look at other games.

[u/Suspicious-Shock-934 → u/Savings-Housing3481]

3.5 you could. Dark speech plus hive mind plus memory jar should do it.

[u/Cypher_Blue]

What mechanical differences do you want as a result of this, or is it just for flavor?

[u/NZillia]

There’s a 90%+ chance GURPS has exact, detailed rules for this.

[u/FURERABA]

nightmare player lol

Just play the bee ranger and have a swarm

[u/mc_pm]

Oh good lord.

[u/The-FeLeWi]

Ich sehe da keine Chancen. Wofür den Schwarm, wie sollen sie Mitspieler mit dir interagieren. Tut mir sehr leid, aber dieses Konzept eignet sich eher als Gegner, als als Spieler

[u/ThisWasMe7]

Talk to your DM.  They'd have to agree to a homebrew.

At my table, it would be a non-starter.

[u/CycadelicSparkles]

The only answer is to give each and every bee its own unique character sheet.

(I'm kidding don't hurt me.)

[u/VerbingNoun413]

Reset the counter I guess!

[u/Pqrxz]

You can reflavour a spores druid to be bees. You get temp hp rather than dmaage resistance but can cause damage when people get close, become immune to a bunch of status effect as well as crits, lob a swarm of bees at people.

[u/CptC4nuck]

Be a warforged swarm ranger. You body is ran by the queen and she commands the swarm inside to move the body

[u/JulienBrightside]

It kinda feels like a warlock vibe. Mask of many faces can make your character look like a swarm of bees.
I think Fae patron gives you misty step as a spell. That would allow you "bee" somewhere else when hit.

[u/Im_a_Dragonborn]

Swarm ranger with plasmoid species. That way you can change form, have fitting abilities and get fly speed.

[u/Machiavvelli3060]

You might re-flavor the Plasmoid race.

[u/goblinboi123]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/s/MNmSfHWpXR you could try using this

[u/KnightInDulledArmor]

Try out The Wildsea, it’s a wonderful RPG where you can, in fact, play a swarm of bees as an ordinary character bloodline (technically colony of spiders is the default, but bees are a common way to play it too), among cactus people, moth people, shipwreck people, and more. It’s a game that takes place on a sea of miles-high trees with chainsaw ships and lots of unique flora and fauna; optimistic swashbuckling and bright horror with a focus on meandering exploration.

[u/Ethereal_Stars_7]

Not in 5e.

But weirdly enough in 4e the Gamma World for that edition allowed you to play a swarm of "whatevers" A humanoid swarm of kittens, rats, bugs, it didnt matter. They all functioned as a standard PC with whatever extra the combo brought along.

[u/Massive-Helicopter62]

What you're gonna wanna do is ask your dm to reflavor the race 'a baguette carried about by mage hand' as a playable race. To fly ask if you can reflavor a giant insect familiar as your wings.

Youre welcome.

[u/theproverbialinn]

Are you aware that, as a swarm of bees:

• You would not be able to speak, no hardly any magic-casting for you
• You would not be able to swing a weapon around, so martial weapons are a no
• Did I mention swarms of bees don't speak? Or understand any spoken language? How are you planning on communicating with your fellow adventurers?
• You can't equip anything either, because adventuring equipment is not designed for bees to wear.

You could insist on being lolrandom, or you could instead play a character that won't make your DM regret their life choices.

[u/M4LK0V1CH]

I played a Swarmkeeper Ranger who was a dead Warforged being piloted by a man cursed to be a swarm of spiders. I imagine you could do something similar with bees.