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A colossal matriarch of buzzing terror, the Giant Bee Queen commands her hive with deadly precision, her venom-dripping stinger and shimmering golden carapace making her a living storm of wings and teeth.
The Giant Bee Queen, a towering insect of gleaming golden armor and lethal venom, rules her hive with ruthless strategy, summoning swarms to defend her brood while patrolling lush forests and enchanted glades in relentless pursuit of survival and expansion.
Appearance
Towering above her kin, the Giant Bee Queen’s golden-amber exoskeleton gleams like molten metal. Her colossal wings beat with thunderous power, and her multifaceted eyes glint with uncanny intelligence. A massive, venom-laden stinger arcs from her abdomen, and her mandibles can crush armor or bone with ease. Every feature radiates authority, lethality, and commanding presence.
Behaviour
Calm and calculating when unprovoked, she directs her hive with unmatched precision. Worker and soldier bees obey her silent signals, defending the nest or foraging with perfect coordination. When threatened, she becomes a whirling tempest of wings and venom, striking with deadly accuracy while rarely leaving her hive except to patrol or expand her territory.
Habitat
Giant Bee Queens favor lush forests, dense jungles, and mystical glades rich with nectar and pollen. Their enormous hives—woven from wax and honey—can occupy hollow trees, cliffside caverns, or enchanted groves, often glowing faintly with golden light from stored honey.
Modus Operandi
The Queen rarely acts alone, relying on her swarm to trap, confuse, and weaken intruders while she delivers precise, lethal strikes. She employs aerial agility, swarm coordination, pheromone trails, and honeycomb traps to dominate encounters, using strategy over sheer force.
Motivation
Instinct drives her to protect her brood and maintain the hive’s dominance. Expansion, defence, and species preservation guide every action, making her a relentless, calculating, and formidable guardian.
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Giant Bee Queen
Large Beast, Unaligned
Armor Class: 16 (Natural Armor)
Hit Points: 105 (10d10 + 50)
Speed: 40 ft., fly 60 ft.
| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 (+4) | 16 (+3) | 20 (+5) | 6 (−2) | 14 (+2) | 8 (−1) |
Saving Throws: Dex +6, Con +8
Skills: Perception +5, Stealth +6
Damage Resistances: Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Damage Immunities: Poison
Condition Immunities: Charmed, Frightened, Poisoned
Senses: Darkvision 60 ft., Tremorsense 30 ft., Passive Perception 15
Languages: Understands Sylvan but cannot speak
Challenge: 6 (2,300 XP)
Special Traits
Hive Bond. The Giant Bee Queen can sense the location of any allied Giant Bees within 1 mile and can communicate simple directives telepathically.
Keen Smell. The Giant Bee Queen has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.
Venomous Stinger. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) piercing damage plus 14 (4d6) poison damage. The target must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. While poisoned in this way, the target is paralyzed.
Actions
Multiattack. The Giant Bee Queen makes two attacks: one with her stinger and one with her mandibles.
Mandibles. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage.
Call Giant Bees (Recharge 5–6). The Queen summons up to 2 Giant Bees within 60 ft. The summoned bees act immediately on the Queen’s turn and follow her commands until destroyed or the end of the encounter.
Wing Buffet (Recharge 6). The Queen beats her wings violently. Each creature within 10 ft. must succeed on a DC 16 Strength saving throw or take 10 (3d6) bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone.
Tactics
- Hive Defense. The Queen rarely leaves her hive, using her summoned Giant Bees to isolate and harry intruders while staying just out of reach.
- Aerial Superiority. She remains airborne when possible, using Wing Buffet to disrupt formations and prevent melee enemies from reaching her.
- Poison Exploitation. Prioritizes lightly armored and spellcasting foes, using stinger attacks to paralyze and weaken them.
- Summon Coordination. Uses Call Giant Bees strategically to bolster offense and defense, positioning summoned bees to block escape or flank targets.
Giant Bee Queen
This giant bee is as large as a horse and unusually fat, with light brown stripes on her body.
This content is from the Paizo Core Rules.
Bulbous and robust in comparison to others of the same species, giant queen bees are immense, fertile females, easily identified by their larger size and lighter stripes. They grow to 12 feet in length and weigh 140 pounds.
| Bee, Giant Queen CR 5 |
| XP 1,600 N Large vermin Init +0; Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +1 |
| DEFENSE |
| AC 17, touch 9, flat-footed 17 (+8 natural, -1 size) hp 59 (7d8+28) Fort +9, Ref +2, Will +3 Immune mind-affecting effects Weaknesses vulnerable to smoke |
| OFFENSE |
| Speed 20 ft., Fly 60 ft. (good) Melee sting +8 (1d8+6 plus poison) Space 10 ft.; Reach 5 ft. |
| STATISTICS |
| Strength 19, Dexterity 11, Constitution 18, Intelligence –, Wisdom 12, Charisma 13 Base Atk +5; CMB +10; CMD 20 (28 vs. trip) Skills Fly +2 |
| SPECIAL ABILITIES |
| Poison (Ex) Sting – injury; save Fort DC 17; frequency 1/round for 4 rounds; effect 1d2 Constitution; cure 2 consecutive saves. Vulnerable to Smoke (Ex) Smoke from particularly smoky fires or effects (such as that created by a pyrotechnics spell) causes a giant bee to become nauseated if it fails a DC 14 Fortitude save. This condition persists as long as the giant bee remains in the smoke, plus 1d4 rounds. |
| ECOLOGY |
| Environment temperate or warm plains Organization solitary or colony (1 queen and 3-18 giant bees) Treasure incidental (royal jelly) |
Royal Jelly
When a hive of bees needs a new queen to replace one that has died, they feed specially selected larvae royal jelly to trigger the larvae’s transformation into new queens. The first queen to hatch then kills any other new queens.
Royal jelly has remarkable effects on other creatures if eaten. A pound of royal jelly provides enough nourishment for a full day, and grants a +4 resistance bonus on all saving throws against disease for the next 24 hours. If a creature sleeps enough to heal damage within 24 hours of eating at least a pound of royal jelly, it heals twice the
hit points and ability damage as it otherwise would. A typical bee hive contains 2d6 pounds of royal jelly – a single pound sells for 100 gp.
Section 15: Copyright Notice – Bestiary 2
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary 2, © 2010, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Authors Wolfgang Baur, Jason Bulmahn, Adam Daigle, Graeme Davis, Crystal Frasier, Joshua J. Frost, Tim Hitchcock, Brandon Hodge, James Jacobs, Steve Kenson, Hal MacLean, Martin Mason, Rob McCreary, Erik Mona, Jason Nelson, Patrick Renie, Sean K Reynolds, F. Wesley Schneider, Owen K.C. Stephens, James L. Sutter, Russ Taylor, and Greg A. Vaughan, based on material by Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, and Skip Williams.