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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5574066" data-attributes="member: 4937">One of the campaigns I want to have oppurtunity to run begins with exploring the house of a crazy cat woman and being attacked by her house cats.  And its intended to be very much high heroic fantasy.That said:No, I disagree.  Being afraid of housecats at L1 is not realistic, since in reality even ordinary schlobs have better than good odds againsta house cat.  If your system has a house cat problem, it points to serious flaw your system has with small numbers. D&D's inability to model things smaller than a 1st level character well is a rules issue, but it doesn't have much to do with whether or not your 1st level character is heroic because if you have a housecat problem as a 1st level character then chances are lots of things in the system have a house cat problem.  House cats according to the statistics of the game are these lethal killing machines capable of killing things 40 times their own weight, and likely as not to kill seasoned warriors if one is unfortunate enough to be caught without heavy armor.  That's the problem here, and not that the 1st level character is really meant to be weaker than a house cat.  The problem is that the house cat may as well attack things 40 times its own weight, because it has about as much chance against them as it has against a rat and can eat longer on them.</blockquote>