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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9279652" data-attributes="member: 7044704">Well, yes.&nbsp; D&amp;D doesn't usually feature firearms, and you're often adventuring out on the farthest frontiers of civilization where there can be a lot more animal life than we're used to IRL, and those animals are often less afraid of bipeds.&nbsp; You ought to be seeing more normal animals while traipsing around, most of which will be harmless but not all of them.&nbsp; Even herbivores can be extremely dangerous.&nbsp; Ask my players how &quot;mundane&quot; a buffalo stampede can be.&nbsp; Or heck, just watch any of the countless &quot;idiot tourist at a national park&quot; vids out there.And that's not even considering what wolves are like during a hard winter, especially if failure to cull them has led to overpopulation.&nbsp; They depopulated whole villages back in Dark Age Europe.Even in a city, you're going to see a lot of livestock, beasts of burden and mounts.&nbsp; A pre-industrial society that isn't saturated in magic relies on freshly butchered animals for a lot of their food, which means a lot of live animals being brought to market or the slaughterhouses.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9279652, member: 7044704"] Well, yes. D&D doesn't usually feature firearms, and you're often adventuring out on the farthest frontiers of civilization where there can be a lot more animal life than we're used to IRL, and those animals are often less afraid of bipeds. You ought to be seeing more normal animals while traipsing around, most of which will be harmless but not all of them. Even herbivores can be extremely dangerous. Ask my players how "mundane" a buffalo stampede can be. Or heck, just watch any of the countless "idiot tourist at a national park" vids out there. And that's not even considering what wolves are like during a hard winter, especially if failure to cull them has led to overpopulation. They depopulated whole villages back in Dark Age Europe. Even in a city, you're going to see a lot of livestock, beasts of burden and mounts. A pre-industrial society that isn't saturated in magic relies on freshly butchered animals for a lot of their food, which means a lot of live animals being brought to market or the slaughterhouses. [/QUOTE]

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