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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vraille Darkfang" data-source="post: 2182242" data-attributes="member: 16989">Well, having had more time to put my thoughts together,The thread Title: Need NPC Cow & Chickens (around April 1st) didn't get a lot of responses (not surprised).So here is a second, more articulate request;How would you run a game with any amount of serious intent when the primary opponents are listed in the PHB Equipment list under 'Livestock'.Orwell's novel of what happens when the lunatics start running the asylum is a classic story & shows just how nasty intelligent farm creatures can get.Ever since I started playing second edition & one of my wizards had a chicken for a familiar, I've wanted to do a "Paybacks a B*****" storyline centered around Animal Farm meets PETA via D&D.  With the 3rd edition spell Awaken, I have easy access to the tools needed to create farm animals with human intelligence.I mean, how would animals react if suddenly they were as smart as we were?  Not happy with the butcher I'd suspect.The basic plotline is a CN (Insane) druid is going around Awakening farm animals, so they can lead a "Revolution to return things to the natural way".  Basically he's trying to destroy civilization to return things to the way they should be (completely natural).  His current plans revolves around getting an army of Awakened Farm Animals to spearhead his attempts to set all the domesticated animals free "Back into the Wild where they belong".What I need help with is how to run this so my PC's take it seriously.  Sure a 12th level chicken-monk could kill them.  But they'd die in disbelief.  How to you convince a players that a force of awakened animals is a threat.  (a 1st level commoner can easily be terrorized by anything that gains +2 HD, but what about the seasoned adventurer?)Any ideas?  Particularly those who have read Animal Farm, or perhaps Sinclair's the Jungle?P.S.  One of the funnies things that happened in this regard was when a player was playing a 3.0 Paladin and insisted his Bonded Mount has to be a Gelding.  (I think he though Gelding defined breed of horse, like a palomino, not what had been DONE to the horse.  But he insisted, so I gave him what he wanted.  Needless to say the horse had attitude problems.  It may have been the first time a paladin had to atone for the actions of his horse.  Halfling thief joked once too much about "Hey ain't that a nice looking philly, Oh wait, you don't care!" and "Don't you wish you had a foal of you own.  Oh, wait sorry, that'll never happen."  Eventually the horse snapped & brought the can of whup-a** on the halfling.</blockquote>

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