Can we have a bug civ thread?

Can we have a bug civ thread?

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What's that? Based on the art, it looks pretty cool

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A warrior civ made of matabele ants would be super OP, If nature ever tried to make the dark army of sauron it's them

Logically speaking...Ant people would steamroll over every other kind of people.

Nerubians are the best kind of bugs (even though they're spiders)

chitin women > furry women

>Praying mantis are a mix between wuxia shaolin monks and murderhobos
>realms of Ants ruled by god-queens and are the most populous of races
>spiders are basically neutral evil Opportunists that don't care about anything that isnt in their domain(web)

I find Rhinoceros and Stag beetles very cool, but for national pride I have to go with the Weta.

>casting a light spell in a moth encampment is illegal and is likely to get you kicked out of town

>tiger beetles are tigers

The land still needs predators

NO FUN ALLOWED

>spiders
>evil

Spiders would be the same as Manti.

sup

Millipedes should be cavalry and centipede the dragon equivalent of this world

>dragon equivalent
that would be the hunter wasp

Centipedes should still be a legendary monster, but warrior wasps would make great dragons, should bullet be orcs or just a more primitive and stronger ant?

I feel like birds would be dragons, in terms of being giant beasts that descend from the skies to ravage towns. Which I suppose makes Goliath Birdeaters fearless dragon-slayers.

Should cockroaches be kobolds or cattle?

Are funnelwebs then the raging dragon-slaying barbarians? I'd love to see a funnelweb sitting on a throne made of a dead bird skull.

>Pic related. Ant worker riding on a domesticated beetle.
youtube.com/watch?v=8ZsTXIQIB3Y

>After a thousand years of conquest across the forest the only thing standing before the great antinium empire and their evil queen and total domination is the near mythical order of arachnid riding warriors known as.....
THE SPIDER RIDERS!.

What about them just literally being people?

>Peaceful Insect village where all the bug races got along before the ants attacked.

Aphids are cattle. Cockroaches should be people, the regular commoner working class of beetles.

Funnily enough, they're actually really closely related to Praying Mantises. They could be the common janitor cousin to the mantises' flamboyant serial killer.

Scorpions should the once great civilization that now has it's remnants scattered and devolved into small warring tribes that still claim their legacy while the other nations just look at them and their calls lf superiority woth conptempt and annoyance.

Nectar secreting Caterpillars would be the equivalent of cows, Aphids are kind of like chicken. Cockroaches are like dogs.

I think ants should have traits individual for each species like matabele and bullet ants being tough, bigger and stronger than a red ant while the later is more ingenuous than them and use their greater numbers to win wars.

I'm willing to color in a map for you bugfags.

So quickly, do you want a basic world map for this or just a regional one?

>dragons not being dragonflies
like, come on guys

>Ants are the fuck off huge Empire with a diverse society of ant species, but non ants treated like second class citizens
>Bees form lots of generally benevolent kingdom that mostly keep to themselves and let other insects live unmolested in their lands but they also don't waste much time defending them
>Wasps are the marauding barbarians that steal and destroy anything they come across but life is weirdly peaceful in their borders as long as you don't piss them off

Also largely reversed gender roles. Men are mostly seen as eye candy.

The great termites and ant kingdoms live in a savanah like enviroments both live in a uneasy peace while skirmishes are still common full-scale war is avoided. To the east the Mantis live in a theocratic state their faith preaches might makes right so that only the strong may become high priest. In the woodlands and bogs of the south the spiders live in small traders town where they sell their silk for the caravans of millipedes that travel the kingdoms. And to the west the moth and butterflies live in their cities on the tree tops where they guard their knowledge jealously they are the scribes of courts and the historian of this world.

>To the east the Mantis live in a theocratic
I think my favorite thing about "Insect settings" is how so god damn cheesy everything is because of the naming conventions.

>Also largely reversed gender roles. Men are mostly seen as eye candy.

This can work but we need to thread carefully to not turn this into a magical realm with this in mind beetles should one of the few species where males are still the large member of the species, they also could be used as highly capable mercenaries.

Its practically everything has been handed to us in a tight little bow

>the moth and butterflies live in their cities on the tree tops where they guard their knowledge jealously they are the scribes of courts and the historian of this world.
Well that makes little sense. If anything Butterflies are troubadour extraordinaire, what with being the flamboyant and migratory anomaly they are in the insect kingdom. They're both quite fluttery and aloof. Plus moths would be top tier astrologists.

We still need people tobtake those jobs though? What would be good substitues?

I think we need to figure out which bugs make up the races and which bugs are the animals.

>Obviously

Ants, termites, Bees and Wasps, are obviously each going to bee(HA!) making up the at least some of the major powers in the setting but i like the nice wide selection for possible people we can craft here. Beetles of every description could be put pretty much everywhere in society(s), What do the mosquitofolk eat? Do we consider lobsters to be bugs in this world? We can have a cool river based society build around them and the few other bug types that can live comfortably in and around water (diving beetles/water stryders, all the types of bugs who lay eggs in the water.) Maybe they only allow eggs to be placed in their rivers if the would be parent pays a fee.

Personally I never got the "guarding knowledge" trope. Like most places with knowledge have it because it's an area with an open exchange of ideas. I guess Bookworms would work.

Those are some interesting concepts, as for the ones that would be the animals i think the bigger they are the more bestial we could make such as centipedes and millipedes as i suggested earlier, protection rackets for parents that want to lay their eggs is also a really cool idea we should discuss how each race handle parenting later as well

One could guard knowledge to have power over the other. Have a bookworm be the shadow behind every throne Im kidding

Guarding knowledge I think came about as a trope because of catholic monks back in the middle ages. In a place in which an entire people's history and folklore can be lost by a plague or a raid, having a group of people dedicated to hoarding and safeguarding knowledge is a big deal.

Monks didn't hoard shit. They wrote rare books, made copies of older works, sold them to wealthy nobles to help finances their monasteries, or made pilgrimages to Rome with their texts to add to the Vatican library. Again it's a system that encourages knowledge by being liberal with it.

Yeah but people are stupid and not letting the peasants wipe their shit covered hands all over the manuscripts makes it look like hoarding.

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was going to ask about this, thank user, you're a saint and a scholar

>YFW when some dirty peasant beetle and two literal shit eating flies stumble into your monastery and try to get a peek (and possibly a nibble) at your thousand year old parchments of enlightened philosophy text. They were both delicious.

>The perfect setting doesn't exis*

Well shit...We need to grow and revise the hell out of this lore. It's a beautiful Veeky Forums setting just waiting to be fully realized. There still needs to be a section on mosquitos. They should not be lumped together with flies.

Anyone else tried Bug Fables? I'm assuming yes. Just trying to find everything. I'm bad at figuring out recipes though.

I always liked the idea of mosquitoes taking the place of vampires kind of. There was a bug-based MtG plane I was homebrewing up a while back where Mosquitoes were bloodsucking demons, dealing out magic and contracts from their rotting palaces deep within the swamps. I thought they were super fun.

It also had origami-folding paper wasps.

Beetles are dwarves of the bug civilization

How so? They don't dig under ground, they spend most of their time in trees wrestling

really now so their just bunch of mercenaries or barbarian then

I could see Beetles living in mountainous or high climates, with a society that values strength.

they could also be wandering caravan looking for a place to live or just be mercenaries.

Ausfag here

You really can't categorize the entire beetle species with a single cultural umbrella. I mean in all honestly every type of bug is ridiculously diverse but that goes tenfold when talking about beetles. The amount of diversity you'll find within the beetle species really does exceed all other bugs. There are underwater beetles, flying beetles, underground beetles, scavenger beetles, giant horned beetles, predatory beetles, herbivore beetles, gimmicky beetles with explosive rears. They really do insert themselves into every ecological niche they can....Oh!...They are the humans of the bug world. They are all over the setting to the point of ubiquity and an do pretty much anything passably.

That's a nice huntsman

>Men are mostly seen as eye candy
Men are also the first ones actively shoved outside of the hive (for bees and wasps) come winter, so not sure how reversed those gender roles really are.

>Come talk to me and my son whenever you please

>What's everyone's favorite bug?
this one

>Be me
>qt mosquito girl, drawn by extremely talented artist
>Evil
>Some wannabe cyborg tries to start shit
>Start whooping his ass
>About to off him
>Murdered by the real homo protagonist, whose entire schtick is that he's fucking invincible
>Die so quick it might as well have been a throwaway line
feels bad, man

I'm a stag beetle man myself.

WHY? Why would you enjoy an insect that looks like it was designed specifically to crush your fingers?

What the fuck is wrong with Japanese kids picking these two up and making them fight? Why go out of your way to touch these abominations?

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Because the threat makes me respect it. Also it would hurt, but a stag beetle can't put enough force behind it's mandibles to really damage you, maybe put some dents in your skin, but not much more than that

Could the large horned beetles stand as vagrant scholar knights/mercenaries? Traveling the world honing their strategies and skills in combat because every 5 or 10 years they go back to their home for a chance in a tournament to get the beetle princess?

>A wandering beetle vagrant fighting off centipede bandits, gangs of wasps terrorizing a local bee city and the occasional run in with fire ant troops, all the while he hones his strength and writes poems while contemplating the meaning of strength on his lone journey of self improvement and growth

Theres a abandoned and ruined city because once a beetle who was infected with cordyceps managed to win and got his bugprincess in the high tower.

>The horned beetle society is a society that holds strength and martial prowess at the top. Other bug races who travel to horned beetle towns and cities are sometimes taken aback by the sheer importance of combat, with wrestling rings, dojos, gyms and weapon sellers all across the cities. Some bugs seek out the larger horned beetle settlements, as these places are home to some of the strongest bugs in the land, and a haven for combat oriented bugs who seek to grow stronger.

Fluffy moths.

that's a damn fine choice user.
For me though, as much as I like moths and grasshoppers nothing beats the humble bee.

Are you the one who posted about it in /indie/ a few days ago? I really liked the ideas in that post. Can't wait to see how it develops.
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>Gods and glory WHEN

>PLUS ULTRA.webm

Yeah, that was me! Glad to hear people liked it.. I'm still chugging away on some of the ideas, but a lot of it is me deliberating over exactly how I want the mechanics to square out.

Point buy is weird to work with.

Matabele should be the giants that comes along the main more common ant armies for a feast of the poor unfortunate fucker that would stand against them.

HOLY SHIT
Did he died?

He's a beetle. He's gonna get back up and get back in the fight. Beetles don't quit.

>ant hips
mor plz

The males could form their little tribes like the night brothers did in the clone wars series

Fun fact: You could drop a beetle from a 5 story building and most likely the thing will just bounce and lose a leg
Drop a man and he'll break his legs and most of his lower body
Drop a horse and you'll have a puddle, a horse puddle.

Mass has a funny way of things.

It took me a moment to figure out why I liked Khan the most, but then I figured it's because that's the only actually ant looking one.

Always remember to make the males uglier its fantasy 101

Saddly I can only contribute with my old idea of the mantis folk that are these swahbuckler type trained by a bunch of ant folk from tribal mantieses.

What to do with dung beetles?

Hello.

This thread just got good

The question now is, what kind of demented bug-necromancer created the cordyceps?

You do realize Khan's not an ant, right? It's a wasp. It's why the filename is puns.

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