I am playing the Mummy's Mask campaign I have a Ant mount while everyone has camels because my character is scared of camels after the paladin failed to get it any commands so it bit me but anyway......
I have a ant mount & apparently ants breath through there joints so I am told which I did not know so what I would like to know is there a way to protect the ants joins from dust & the killer sandstorms in the desert journeys as they rapidly fill up (its joints) so it starts to suffocate which is not good
How would I go about it ?
What could I buy?
How much is it ?
I don't know of any 'ant survives the sandstorm' potion. But there's a shield that will pokeball an animal ally. There's a 2nd-level spell that will do the same. If you're not able to get magic, an oilskin (oiled and waxed tight-weave canvas) tarp carefully wrapped around the ant should trap enough air to ride out a storm.
Or pitch your GM on a new magic item, 'Hourglass Antfarm', which is the 2nd-level spell-in-a-can, touch attack to use it on an insect, and they go into the hourglass, which starts timing, and two hours later, they're freed. You have to invert the glass and let the sand run through again, maybe, before you can use it again.
There's a whole other level of discussion on how a giant insect breathes, which may not be germain to any particular campaign. I would expect the spiracles need to get deeper, and after deeper, need to get active, probably in synergy with nearby muscles tension, so moving and breathing are the same action. That might lead to a visible/protectible 'nostril' at each joint... but that's all wild speculation.
okay few good ideas there im mentioning them to my Gm to see what he says the oil & waxed canvas might help with the less severe storms with the dust etc
would it help with more killer storms that do the real damage ?
do you know what that second level spell is & what book it is in ?
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Just so you know, the stats for a camel don't really give it any special ability to survive in a desert other than the endurance feat, and the stats for an ant don't give it any weaknesses against sandstorms or anything like that.
In real life, ants breathe through holes in their body (not their joints), they don't have any lungs the air just circulates with movement, they can close off the holes if they need too. One of the main reason's you don't see a horse sized ant is that this method isn't efficient enough to support a large body. You need real lungs for that. Of course it is a fantasy world, but if your GM is going to bring in the minutia of real world ant biology, he should probably also explain how it was forced to change to work for larger sized creatures.
In any event, there are no special rules or systems to solve the problem you have presented, because by the rules the problem really doesn't exist, so only general ways of protecting mounts, such as those others have mentioned, apply.
okay few good ideas there im mentioning them to my Gm to see what he says the oil & waxed canvas might help with the less severe storms with the dust etc
would it help with more killer storms that do the real damage ?
do you know what that second level spell is & what book it is in ?
Carry Companion is the spell. I've got a witch NPC with a collection of hummeled critters. :)
It's from "Pathfinder Player Companion: Knights of the Inner Sea"
okay few good ideas there im mentioning them to my Gm to see what he says the oil & waxed canvas might help with the less severe storms with the dust etc
would it help with more killer storms that do the real damage ?
do you know what that second level spell is & what book it is in ?
Carry Companion is the spell. I've got a witch NPC with a collection of hummeled critters. :)
It's from "Pathfinder Player Companion: Knights of the Inner Sea"
Sadly my character is a Cleric which I should of said so I can't do that spell sadly
we can only do spells from books we have or from PDF's if view on a large enough device ( house rule)
so I cant do that spell either way