Choosing animal companions for ease of mobility, tastiness and nutrition.

[Cor Azer]

This is so wrong.

Roll d100 to see what's on the menu tonight!

So, the PCs would only be cannibals some of the time?

 

[Piratecat]

So, the PCs would only be cannibals some of the time?

Nah. You can't be "a little bit cannibal"; it's like being a little bit pregnant.

 

[Ridley's Cohort]

Nah. You can't be "a little bit cannibal"; it's like being a little bit pregnant.

Another small-minded & bigoted comment from the Raise Dead/Resurrection crowd trying to denigrate those who have embraced the blessings of the Reincarnation life style.

Watch yourself or I will be forced to report you to a moderator.

 

[Rel]

So, the PCs would only be cannibals some of the time?

Don't be silly. If the Cohort comes back as a humanoid, you just kill them, feed them to the Druid's Animal Companion and try again.

No sense in doing something EVIL like cannibalism.

 

[Sejs]

but the consequences would likely be that other animals would no longer willing come near the character (fear of the predator, basically).

As far as most animals are concerned, humans already fall quite solidly into the predator category. We smell like meat eaters and our eyes look straight ahead. Adventurers would be even worse, smelling like blood, metal, weapon oil, spell components and willingness to fight. One big walking red flag, basically.

I admit I'm no zoologist, but I can't think of any animal that consciously* volunteers to be eaten. Rabbits tends not to play around wolves, so to speak.

Depend which approach you want to take on it. The naturalist route says no, of course prey animals don't want to be eaten. The mythological route says (and there are plenty of examples of this in various cultures) that prey animals realize their niche in the big Natural Order Of Things picture is to be eaten, and they're okay with this just so long as you show them the proper respect. Thanking their spirit for its sacrifice after the kill, etc.

 

[Archade]

My players once had a camel named Bessim. It was the most irate, ornery, stubborn, and vicious camel they had ever seen. After several memorable encounters, they started referring to it as a dire fiendish war camel.

And then Bessim died. So they reincarnated it (3.0). It came back as an Azer (the cleric of Kossuth rolled 'DM Choice' and it seemed Kossuthan). A snorting, biting, Int 2 Azer, but an Azer.

After chaining Azer-Bessim up to a post (for their own protection), they decided to have a celebratory feast. So they ate Camel-Bessim. They even fed some to Azer-Bessim.

Now THAT's *evil*.

 

[Piratecat]

Wow. That's like feeding bacon to a pig.

 

[Archade]

That's like feeding bacon to the pig that was originally part of the pig.

Ew!

 

[Hypersmurf]

Wow. That's like feeding bacon to a pig.

It's like feeding ground-up cows to a cow!

That way lies madness, I tell you!

-Hyp.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Then again, can't survival be used untrained anyway?

It's a bizarre twist that only those with Wis 9 or less can't find enough food to live on themselves just by taking 10 each day. Commoners need never starve!