Wotansman said:How would you carry the bunnies, I mean are you going to take a cart down into a dungeon? Seriously, that's gonna start weighing a ton, and make noise.
. On that note, how do you also keep them from taking damage as you take damage, how are they protected against AOE attacks?
The 4e seems to be aimed at Goodly people, it's not a very good option to sacrifice a brace of rabbits for combat bonuses.
Not fully, but in some bit it's metagame, you're just looking at the rules at base, not at how your character themselves might see it.
Metagame on the DM's part; we have no stat's for rabbits, I think that's the most stupid way to do it, but it works when you don't want to deal with it.
Those are pretty knee-jerk, but off the top of my head.
If you ever get a chance to sit down and talk to Dave Arneson he will tell you how the first group he would run through would use hamsters to check for traps.
Carrying small creatures to detect things that hurt living creatures has always been a trick used in D&D.