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Or just reward their creativity...
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
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
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.
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
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.