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Message: <blockquote data-quote="snickersnax" data-source="post: 7210499" data-attributes="member: 6888204">Today I started by wondering which animals can see in the dark.  Looking it up, I came up with an extensive list of animals that probably should be listed as having darkvision because they have a tapetum in their retina to enhance nightvision.Bears, cats, canines, rodents, whales, cows, sheep, goats, horses, spiders, owls, crocodiles, sharks, many fish, frogs and toads (color nightvision!), lizards, snakes (true infrared darkvision!), crabs and elephants.   Rats, badgers, lizards, owls, spiders, quippers and toads are already listed with darkvision in the MM.Only a few animals don't have nightvision: humans and other primates, squirrels, eagles, hawks, crows , and pigsReal predatory animals are usually very careful about what fights they take, measuring the strength of their prey carefully, testing their perception and level of fear and employing tactics that maximize success and minimize risk.  If the animal isn't facing desperation and the risk looks great, they avoid the fight.  If they are cornered, facing life and death or protecting their young, animals have the capacity to take the fight to another level of ferocity.  Its been my experience that beast encounters in D&D rarely seem to reflect the wisdom, skill and primal fury that animals possess in surviving and killing in the wild.Anyone else explored boosting beasts tactics and giving beasts and maybe other monsters some missing primal strength?</blockquote>

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