Dream Wasp, Queen

Medium beast, unaligned

Armor Class 14 (studded leather)
Hit Points 36 (8d8)
Speed 10 ft., fly 50 ft.

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
12 (+1)	16 (+3)	12 (+1)	12 (+1)	12 (+1)	5 (-3)

Condition Immunities charmed, frightened, stunned
Senses blindsight 10 ft., passive Perception 11
Languages –
Challenge 5 (1,800 XP)

SPECIAL TRAITS

• Swarm. The swarm can occupy another creature’s space and vice versa, and the swarm can move through any opening large enough for a Tiny insect. The swarm can’t regain hit points or gain temporary hit points.

ACTIONS

• Innate Spellcasting. The dream wasp’s innate spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 12, +15 to hit with spell attacks). The dream wasp can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material component.
  • At will: mage hand, silent image
  • 1/day: detect thoughts, mirror image, misty step

ABOUT

Amid humid hazes and azure sky, lone wasps drift sightlessly through the jungle forest, searching for overly ripe fruit and rotten meat. When a colony of dream wasps comes together, their nature shifts to violent territoriality that drives them to hunt in swarms. These swarms are led by the larger, more cunning drones and the colony’s queen. When colony size reaches into the thousands, the entire collective displays further heightened aggression and strange magical powers, waging war against neighboring colonies and strangers with equal ferocity.

As a dream wasp colony grows, so does their bizarre ability to use magic. Some believe the wasps somehow connect to the Dreamlands and communicate with each other in that strange dimension. Even more puzzling, while large colonies are capable of intricate planning and devious traps, there seems to be no way of communicating with dream wasps either by symbolic language or magic.