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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMH" data-source="post: 2211559" data-attributes="member: 24945">Is it a sand desert or rocky/soil desert? Both have beetles, ants and flies (some with the most interesting survival mechanisms), but the latter will have more diversity and more orders. I would not use termites unless there is some form of usable cellulose in the area and lots of it.You give me an idea of the desert's makeup and I have several examples of each to draw from.I wouldn't say that at all. They do have specialized sensory organs and one can easily deafen those that can hear by breaking the tympanium (unless it is part of the wing, then the whole wing has to go), blind them by destroying the compund eyes and ocelli, and destroy the flight capacity of many fliers by removing their antennae. But randomly hacking at them is unlikely to do such damage- maybe light fortification plus a souped up version of Diehard would be better. Let them go to -25 hp before they finally go down to represent their ability to (mentally as it were) ignore damage.Yes to all of them, but it depends of the family or even species.They should never be able to sneak up on any insect- even catterpillars and maggots have enough sensory gear to pick them up from a distance. It is speed that kills them (esp since they are very slow in most cases).</blockquote>