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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (2 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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Honestly, people getting sentient/sapient messed up in fiction is one of my pet peeves, and here I go doing it myself.

Sapient ants. A colony of sapient ants

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's just the plot to Honey I Shrunk the Kids. Depending on how old your group is, it might be nostalgic, or novel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Similar, but I'm thinking more bugs with cities. Fully sapient.