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Broodmother-Brood

Aromace

Defender/Debuff
[Fluff]
(uses pheromones to fascinate enemies and can buff allies to inflict charm if they are attacked. Can also spray short-range capsiacin blasts to debuff foes) Stats
Small Monstrosity

Abilities

• Fragrances – Aromace may be commanded to exude a fragrance as a free action, filling a 10ft radius of itself. It may only have one fragrance active at a time, but it may change fragrances as a free action once per turn, and continues to exude the same fragrance until changed or commanded to stop (a free action). Creatures with the scent ability treat the radius as twice as large.

• Glittering Fragrance – While glittering fragrance is active, creatures within its area making an insight or perception check rolls a d4 and subtracts the result from their check. This fragrance is mostly invisible and requires an active perception or nature check against Aromace's save DC to identify.
• Hypnotic Fragrance – While hypnotic fragrance is active, creatures within its area must pay double the movement cost to move away from Aromace; this cost also applies to leaving the area.
• Repellent Fragrance – While repellent fragrance is active, creatures within its area must pay double the movement cost to move toward Aromace; this cost also applies to entering the area.
  • Irritating Spray – Ranged weapon attack, dexterity, range 15ft/45ft. Hit: 1d4 acid damage + CON fire damage, and the target is poisoned for 1d4+1 rounds. Multiple applications do not stack duration. While poisoned from irritating spray, a creature takes the fire damage again at the start of each of its turns, and it may attempt a constitution saving throw as a move action to end the poisoned condition early.
  • Pollen Shield – At the start of each of your turns, Aromace gains 1 temporary hit point. Temporary hit points from pollen shield stack with each other, to a maximum of twice your proficiency bonus. A creature that damages Aromace while it has any of these temporary hit points and is within 10ft of it must make a constitution saving throw or become charmed by the Aromace until the end of its next turn, as well as poisoned for 3 rounds. While charmed in this way, a creature cannot willingly move away from Aromace.

• Decaying Fragrance – While infection fragrance is active, creatures within its area and for 1 round after they leave it lose any damage resistance they have, and any damage immunity is instead treated as resistance.

Banigna

Control/Utility Food
A Child that purifies organic material it is fed, turning it into edible substances. In combat, it can attack creatures that move through its area (increasing with maturity), though it is immobile. Due to processing material, does not require milk to sustain.
Stats
Medium Monstrosity

Abilities

• Composting – Banigna can convert spoiled, fouled, rotten, poisoned, or otherwise unwanted organic material, turning it into more useful matter for a variety of purposes. Both the original and converted product must be organic in nature, and creating rare or magical products might be difficult or impossible without proper knowledge of Banigna's mother. This conversion process requires energy, and this is usually extracted from the sacrificed material as nutrition. So long as it is fed material, Banigna is able to sustain itself without milk from its mother. (Refer to the Salvaging rules, with Banigna able to produce material that is not normally available for salvage.)
• Goodberry – Banigna produces 1d4+1 fruits each day it sustains itself naturally. It may also choose to produce these fruits as a product of its composting ability, and regardless of the source material, these fruits are safe for consumption by any creature that is capable of eating food, sustaining that creature as if it drank Banigna's mother's milk (other Childs do not gain nutrition from this ability).
• Roots (I)– As a standard action, Banigna may send roots into the ground, which is required to use its composting ability. While rooted, Banigna's speed becomes 0ft and is difficult to move otherwise; a creature attempting to do so must make a strength check against Banigna's save DC to uproot it first.

Carrionette

Utility/Defender
(implanted in a corpse or helpless creature, it then controls them at your command. HP is capped based on PB, and uses your PB instead of controlled creature)
Carrionette has no stats as a creature. It has 5 hit points, an AC of 12, and a saving throw bonus of +0. A carrionette counts as a utility brood, even if it is controlling another creature.
Abilities

Drillgore

Defender/Assault
Normally placid and calm, a drillgore is perfectly attuned to its mother's innate capacity for violence, allowing it to channel it with just the most basic of sustained mental contact.
[+Stats]
Small Monstrosity; adolescent/mature Medium Monstrosity

Abilities

• Pacifism – Drillgore cannot be commanded to attack and will not make offensive reactions unless under the effects of Berserker.
• Axial Claws – Melee weapon attack, strength, reach 5ft. Hit: 1d4+3 piercing damage, and the target gains 1 axial wound. A creature may have a maximum number of axial wounds equal to your proficiency bonus, and any axial wounds on a creature are removed if drillgore does not attack it for 1 turn (hit or miss). Axial claws deal +1d4 damage for each axial wound on a creature, and have Reliable damage equal to the number of axial wounds on the creature it is attacking.
• Shield of Claws (A) – When attacking, Drillgore gains temporary hit points equal to its strength modifier plus your proficiency bonus plus the number of axial wounds on the creature it is attacking, the creature it is attacking suffers difficulty +1 to attack Drillgore, and all other creatures gain accuracy +1 to attack Drillgore.

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Fidew

Defender/Controller
A defensive oriented Child, who's specialty is locking down enemies and protecting nearby allies with its reflexive attacks and long reaching tentacles that secrete a sticky slime.
Stats
Small Monstrosity

Gebroon

Sacrifice Artillery
Effectively just an ambulatory explosive, Gebroons are designed to be fast and easy to create. However, this design feature comes at the cost of their innate life-support systems, as such, they cannot even partake of sustaining milk or magical foodstuffs to allow them to last for more than a day after activation. Even so, many broodmothers will keep at least one on standby for emergency situations where one needs an explosion or acid. Stats Tiny Monstrosity

Maturation: Gebroon cannot be matured, but their self-destruct may be altered in one of the following ways. Only Gebroon may have these alternate self-destruct abilities, even if self-destruct is grafted onto another Child.

• Freezing Burst – The gebroon's explosion deals cold damage instead of fire damage, and instead of dealing acid damage, affected targets must make a strength saving throw or have its movement speed halved until the chilling gel is removed. While covered in the chilling gel, the target suffers vulnerability to cold damage, unless it is immune to cold damage.
• Toxic Burst – The gebroon's explosion deals 2d10 poison damage instead of fire damage, and as long as they are covered in toxic goop, they are poisoned and take 1d10 poison damage at the start of each of their turns. A dexterity saving throw avoids being covered in goop.

Honeyose

Sacrifice Healing
[fluff]

(steal Naho's healing ability)

Naho may touch a creature as a standard action and heal it for up to 10 points of damage, taking half (rounded up) of that amount onto itself (you may use FP in place of hit point damage as normal for this transference). For every additional FP spent, the maximum amount of damage transferred increases by 5. Naho may also spend any stored biomass when performing transfusion, healing the target additional hit points equal to the roll plus Naho's constitution modifier for each die spent this way.

Adolescent: Its transfusion gains the following effect: A creature that has been healed by transfusion heals hit points equal to the FP spent at the start of each of its turns for 1 minute.

Mature: The maximum amount of damage that can be transferred with Transfusion is doubled (to 10 points per FP spent).

Ignight

Utility (Camping)/Support
(Allows watch to be kept by its mother while she sleeps. Provides warmth and light in a radius, and protects against extreme cold, darkness, damp, and sleep effects.)

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Looksey

Utility Scouting
(Utility); A Child with keen senses that can go further from the broodmother than most, though is more frail due to the focus on senses and signal strength.
Stats
Small Monstrosity

Abilities

• Claws - Melee weapon attack, dexterity, reach 5ft. On hit: 1d4+2 piercing damage.
• Camouflage (A) - Looksey may attempt to hide even if only lightly obscured, and gains accuracy +2 to stealth checks.
• Independence - Looksey may go twice as long between feedings as normal, has an active range three times the normal range, and is capable of acting for 1d4+2 rounds after losing contact with its broodmother, using all of its actions to get back into contact to the best of its ability.
• Evasive Maneuvers (I) - A looksey gains a +10ft increase to its movement speeds. Looksey may use either the dash or withdraw actions once per round without requiring an action.

Maturation: Age: 1 week. 100gp.
An adolescent Looksey increases its dexterity and constitution scores by +2, gains expertise in stealth, and it may make two claw attacks as part of the same attack. Its sneak attack improves to become a number of dice equal to your proficiency bonus. It gains the Hellcat Skin focus ability.

Greater Maturation: Age: 1 month. 200gp.
An adult Looksey increases its dexterity score by +4. It may use its hellcat skin ability a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus before it loses its nourished status and gains a level of fatigue.

Mearor

(Special): A Child that can ferry a recently fallen creature's soul within it, allowing them to be reborn.

Mearor, Base
Small or Medium Monstrosity

Maturation: Mearor cannot be matured normally. Instead, if reagents worth 200gp are used and a process is performed over a long rest, the mearor fully incorporates the stored soul and becomes an independent being, effectively returning the original creature to life but as a member of the broodmother's species (unless Hybrid Brood is applied).

Naho

Utility Healing
A spare womb, to help share the burden of growing your brood. In fact, it is full of spare parts that can be used as needed.
Stats
Medium Monstrosity

Abilities

• Advanced Development - Naho takes 1 month to gestate rather than 1 week.
• Independence – Naho's maximum range from you is 100ft times your proficiency bonus instead of the normal limit. Your other brood may also treat Naho as you to determine the range at which they can be active, but not for issuing direct commands.
• Spare Womb - Naho may be used to gestate other Childs (using your broodstock limit), keeping them safe from effects that may harm you.
  • Produce Biomass – In place of gestating Childs, Naho may grow undifferentiated organic matter that may be used as hit dice for itself (these hit die are the same size as its own). Naho may generate 1 hit die of biomass each day, with these hit die counting against your brood stock at a rate of 2 brood stock per 3 hit dice of biomass. If Naho has biomass hit die available, it may spend a reaction when taking damage to roll one hit die worth of biomass to heal itself before or after taking that damage.
  • Transfusion - Naho may transfuse some of its biomass into a willing or unconscious creature, granting hit dice to that creature up to its usual maximum number. This process takes 1 minute, and requires Naho to spend its own hit dice to donate them. The infused creature may only spend these donated hit dice to recover health (either by resting or abilities or arts that restore health), and they use Naho's constitution modifier as well as being d12s.

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Pitooey

 (Ranged); A Child with slow movement, but is capable of performing ranged attacks. 

Pitooey, Base
Small Monstrosity

Maturation: Age: 1 week. 80gp.
An adolescent pitooey increases its dexterity score by +2, the range of its launch barbs and marking by +20ft, and the damage die of launch barbs by 1 step (d6 > d8). Marking's bonus damage increases to +1d4 piercing damage.

Greater Maturation: Age: 1 month. 300gp.
An adult pitooey is medium sized, and increases its dexterity score by +4. The range of its launch barbs increases by +40ft, and the damage die of launch barbs increases by 1 step (d6 > d8).

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Retalanx

(Defense, Electricity); An active defense that punishes attackers and restricts movement of key targets.

Retalanx, Base
Small Monstrosity

Maturation: Age: 1 week. 150gp. An adolescent retalanx is medium sized, and increases its physical ability scores by +2 each. Electric Touch's damage increases by +1d4, and wire whip's HP increases by +1 for each of its hit dice.

Greater Maturation: Age: 1 month. 300gp. An adult retalanx increases its strength score by +8 and its dexterity score by +2, the reach and tether of its wire whip by 5ft, the HP of its wire whip by an additional +2 for each of its hit dice (to 5 HP per hit die), and the damage of Electric Touch increases to +1d8.

Shutinticle

(Offense): A Child that remains within the broodmother, able to attack creatures adjacent to her as a swift action, though it may not do so often. Does not require milk to sustain.

Shutinticle, Base
Tiny Monstrosity

Maturation: Shutinticle cannot be matured normally.

Toxipus

(Offense): A Child with many tentacles that expels poisonous clouds and can cling to creatures to persistently poison them. Can easily be thrown, but its own attacks are weak.

Toxipus, Base
Small Monstrosity

Toxipus, Adolescent: Maturation: Age: 1 week. 20gp.
An adolescent toxipus increases its strength score by +4. It increases the damage dice of poison stinger by 1 step (d4 > d6 > d8). It may also deal acid damage instead of poison damage for any of its abilities (chosen when the ability is used).

Toxipus, Adult: Maturation: Age: 1 month. 80gp.
An adult toxipus is medium sized, and increases its strength and constitution scores by +4. It increases the damage dice of poison stinger by 1 step (d6 > d8 > d10). It adds necrotic to the types of damage it may choose from for its abilities that normally deal poison damage. It also gains the crush ability.

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Vampierce

(Offense): A Child with sharp tentacles meant to draw blood. Can absorb blood, converting it into magical energy to empower itself.

Vampierce
Small Monstrosity

Wearacyte

Utility

Wearacyte is Light Armor with an AC bonus of +2 that can be worn by creatures other than you. It has a number of "slots" equal to your proficiency bonus, which may be spent in the following ways. Once selected, a slot may not be changed, and a new wearacyte must be grown instead.

• 1 slot may be spent to grant the wearer the ability to use a weapon from another brood.
• 1 slot may be spent to gain an (A) ability from another brood.
• 2 slots may be spent for a minor brood tinkering ability, which the creature wearing Wearacyte gains while doing so.
• 2 slots may be spent to grant a +1 bonus to AC and saving throws for the wearer, 4 slots for a +2 bonus to AC and saving throws, or 6 slots for a +3 bonus to AC and saving throws.
• 3 slots may be spent for an improved brood tinkering ability, which the creature wearing Wearacyte gains while doing so.
• 4 slots may be spent for a greater brood tinkering ability, which the creature wearing Wearacyte gains while doing so.

In addition, Wearacyte has three charges that may be spent to perform a special action once per round without consuming its wearer's actions. It may spend one charge to make an attack with a granted weapon, to reduce damage the wearer is about to take by 2d10 + your level (this reduction is doubled against fall damage), or to gain a +1d4 bonus to one saving throw or initiative check the wearer makes. One charge may be renewed during a short rest by expending a hit die (separately from healing), and all charges are renewed after completing a long rest.

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