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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 2519481" data-attributes="member: 17296">They're hellasmart, hellanoisy... they WILL know that something's wrong and will refuse to go first. They're also very hard to 'catch' if they escape the leash or the pen. A full grown pig is heavy, solid, and STRONG. I've used dogs before. They're awesome for the first two levels, pretty good for three to five, and something to be sentimental about after level five. Keep a small pack of 'em. They'll guard your camp at night, they fight better than (very) low level humans, they can scent out invisible creatures. That trick alone is often worth keeping one or two with the party until mid levels. Plus there are already rules out there for using them in this way.The smell is actually the humans fault. Just because pigs CAN wallow in their own filth and survive when penned/trapped there doesn't mean that they will do that of their own accord. They don't really like it.Scientifically speaking pigs are relatively similiar to people on a DNA level (compared to cows, sheep and goats, that is). Many diseases and parasites that affect pigs also affect people. IMO this is the main reason they're considered 'unclean'. You can and probably will get sick if you eat an afflicted pig, and you might not know it's afflicted. FYI, humans are more 'unclean' in this way. Everything that afflicts humans can afflict humans. Very unsafe to eat people.</blockquote>