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<blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 2882611" data-attributes="member: 9254"><p>"jacking up" archetypical monsters via templates HD advancement, and classes *IS* the rules. Admittedly, ants aren't intelligent enough for classes. They might be if you add a template, and therefore by the rules. </p><p></p><p>Personally, I say use stock "giant" ants and numbers. Huge, terrrifying numbers. Fire ants & harvester ant colonies number up to 5,000. Trouble is, they would require a large forage radius. Farming ants would be better. </p><p></p><p>Leaf-cutter ants, a kind of ant that farms, can have colonies of up to <em><strong>8 million.</strong></em> Normally leaf-cutter ant farms require foraging in the trees to feed their fungus farms but in a fantasy setting it's quite plausible that the colony would be mostly self-contained or forage would be done underground. </p><p></p><p>Watch them freak as they walk through massive caverns hundreds of feet across with more than a thousand insects visible and realize <em>this is a <strong>small</strong> chamber!</em> On the plus side, the colony will be so large that most of the place will be unaware of an incursion, just as a New York City resident would be ignorant of a fire on the other side of town. However you can easily throw however many common giant ants you want at them. </p><p></p><p>The smart money is on them killing dozens of ants to create temporary barricades and then running madly back the way they came, doing the same thing again at each intersection.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kigmatzomat, post: 2882611, member: 9254"] "jacking up" archetypical monsters via templates HD advancement, and classes *IS* the rules. Admittedly, ants aren't intelligent enough for classes. They might be if you add a template, and therefore by the rules. Personally, I say use stock "giant" ants and numbers. Huge, terrrifying numbers. Fire ants & harvester ant colonies number up to 5,000. Trouble is, they would require a large forage radius. Farming ants would be better. Leaf-cutter ants, a kind of ant that farms, can have colonies of up to [i][b]8 million.[/b][/i][b][/b] Normally leaf-cutter ant farms require foraging in the trees to feed their fungus farms but in a fantasy setting it's quite plausible that the colony would be mostly self-contained or forage would be done underground. Watch them freak as they walk through massive caverns hundreds of feet across with more than a thousand insects visible and realize [i]this is a [b]small[/b] chamber![/i] On the plus side, the colony will be so large that most of the place will be unaware of an incursion, just as a New York City resident would be ignorant of a fire on the other side of town. However you can easily throw however many common giant ants you want at them. The smart money is on them killing dozens of ants to create temporary barricades and then running madly back the way they came, doing the same thing again at each intersection. [/QUOTE]
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