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I suppose that doesn't hurt anything... (lemmy.world)
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[–] 54 points 2 years ago* (15 children)

I was wondering why the DM would even need to make a call, but I guess that would be relevant.

Any DM that said no without a reason for a lack of ants would be a bad DM.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Maybe an ant hunt mini adventure or some minor consequence to this action.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Or just reward their creativity...

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago* (12 children)

    The best DMs will allow it as an immediate reward and remember it for minor consequences later to progress the campaign in some way. "Druid knocked unconscious and taken while eating ants" type stuff

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I kind of like the idea of "of course you can! ... Rolls die

    You have angered Ancephole, goddess queen of the ants!"

    And then you get this cool side adventure where the party has been shrunk down and must escape a hive of sentient ants

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Pretty sure ants are already sentient, but I like it.

    Edit: apparently ant sentience is somewhat hotly debated, and the current understanding of ant consciousness and metacognition is murky.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    I love that you came back and added that edit, that's some commitment to keeping us up to date on the latest scientific breakthroughs about ant brains (I mean, I'd they have one?) and I appreciate it.

    Edit: ants do in fact have (tiny) brains.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Those ants were a druid colony and now you've eaten Neveah....

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Honestly, this would be a lot of fun as a campaign. Starts off a normal group, druid played by the dm as a PC. Druid shifts, hijinks ensue, druid dies, and now the rest of the party has to battle their way across an unforgiven, sapient bug populated map, to reach the wizard's house to turn them back. It's only a mile away, but to them at their size, it might as well be the other side of the planet

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "Sure you can." Later on the druid fails a diplomacy check because they've got an ant stuck between their teeth.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Druids shouldn't be engaging in diplomacy anyway. Most of the druids I've known, thought that diplomacy = "destroy all cities and allow the forest to grow you humanoid bastards!"

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Or ‘ants are enough energy for an anteater, but not a druid doing other stuff. Buff melee attacks/perception while in anteater shape, but nerf them in some way if they change or try to use magic in human form’

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