dire bunny as a ranger animal companion....

[Wippit Guud]

Well, in keeping with the 'boucing', why not a dire kangaroo?

"Crikey, look at that ripper!"

 

[Pax]

Generally, herbivores don't make the best 'dire' animals. To make a rabbit into a threatening creature, you're going to have to change the concept behind it so much that it will only match a rabbit in appearance, not 'performance'.

You've never seen Watership Down, have you?

General Woundwort is not a cute, fuzzy little bunny ... not by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[mhd]

What about Permanent Invisibility?

Six feet, three and a half inches of it.

 

[the Jester]

Generally, herbivores don't make the best 'dire' animals. To make a rabbit into a threatening creature, you're going to have to change the concept behind it so much that it will only match a rabbit in appearance, not 'performance'.

Apparently you've never encountered a dire squirrel.

Or a megalosquirrel, for whom I will post only the following:

Improved Grab (Ex): When the megalosquirrel hits an enemy two or more sizes smaller than itself with its bite attack, the megalosquirrel may make a grapple check without provoking an attack of opportunity or making a touch attack. If the megalosquirrel gets a hold, it may immediately make another opposed grapple check to try to stuff the victim in its cheeks.

Cheek-Stuff (Ex): A creature stuffed in the megalosquirrel’s cheek is considered grappled, but the megalosquirrel is not. The victim may attempt an opposed grapple check to get free on its turn each round; she’s stuffed in pretty tightly, and usually being squished against a significant mass of debris. Therefore attacking the megalosquirrel’s cheek is only possible with a natural bite attack or a light weapon already in hand. A successful opposed grapple check will allow a trapped creature to draw a light weapon as a full-round action. A creature within the megalosquirrel’s cheek suffers 1d6+5 points of nonlethal damage each round and must hold its breath or start to suffocate in 1d4 rounds. If the victim is rendered unconscious he begins suffering 1d6+5 points of lethal damage each round instead.


Its grapple check, just so you know, is +45.

 

[Sledge]

Well, in keeping with the 'boucing', why not a dire kangaroo?

"Crikey, look at that ripper!"

Actually this would be very accurate, as the ancestral "kangaroo" was actually carnivorous.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/space/SpaceRepublish_167333.htm

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

One of the issues of The Stygian e-zine from Realms of Evil Games had a WHOLE LOT of animals that hadn't been given stats. Among them were the rabbit, dire rabbit, and vorpal bunny. Also had a Holy Hand Grenade item (single-use flamestrike)

 

[kirinke]

whoot. holy hand grenade could be easily made by simply making a hollow glass egg-shape, fill it with alchemal fire and bless the thing. major ouchies to any undead or evil type critter with fire-vulnerabilities.