Formian

Formian
Characteristics
Type	Outsider
Image	Wizards.com image
Stats	Open Game License stats

In the fictional world of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, formians are extraplanar insectoid outsiders.

The formian (centaur-ant), including the worker formian, the warrior formian and the myrmarch formian, first appeared in the first edition in the original Monster Manual II (1983).

The worker formian, the warrior formian, the myrmarch formian, and the queen formian appeared in the second edition for the Planescape setting in the Planes of Law boxed set (1995), and reprinted in Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Three (1996).

The formian worker, the formian warrior, the formian myrmarch, the formian taskmaster, and the formian queen appeared in the third edition Monster Manual (2000), and the revised 3.5 Monster Manual (2003). The formian worker familiar appeared in Tome and Blood (2001), and in the 3.5 revised Dungeon Master's Guide (2003). The formian armadon, the formian observer, and the formian winged warrior appeared in the third edition Fiend Folio (2003).

A formian has an ant-like head and hindquarters, including four legs, but has a humanoid torso and arms, not unlike an invertebrate centaur.

Formians first appeared in the first edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual II, where they were presented as an otherwise ordinary species of intelligent creature from the Prime Material Plane. Full statistics for three main castes of formian were given; the workers (about the size of a large dog), the warriors (the size of a pony) and the myrmarches (the size of a horse). Special types mentioned as being found only inside Formian hive-cities were the male gymarches and the queen.

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