Onto our swarmy friends. Let's do 9HD but not unholy toughness this time. I also see that they have Int, but, despite the little bit about telepathic communication, they almost seem mindless from the rest of the flavor text. What do you all think?
Agreed to those ability scores and to Hivemind.
SRD said:Hive Mind (Ex): Any hellwasp swarm with at least 1 hit point per Hit Die (or 12 hit points, for a standard hellwasp swarm) forms a hive mind, giving it an Intelligence of 6. When a hellwasp swarm is reduced below this hit point threshold, it becomes mindless.
Ah, of course! Well, I still think the following justifies Hive Mind in this case:Yep. Bats and rats. Int 2.
They communicate with each other by a limited form of telepathy that serves only to transmit imperatives such as “target” and “threat” identification.. A mind-reading creature would detect no mind at all in one spark, and only the most rudimentary one in the tymher-haid as a whole
Well, there's sort of an implication in the Swarm subtype that Intelligent swarms should have hive minds, a la the hellwasp swarm (are there any non-mindless swarms without hive mind?):
Hive Mind (Ex): Any hellwasp swarm with at least 1 hit point per Hit Die (or 12 hit points, for a standard hellwasp swarm) forms a hive mind, giving it an Intelligence of 6. When a hellwasp swarm is reduced below this hit point threshold, it becomes mindless.