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<blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1710105" data-attributes="member: 3146">Right but, if you look at the RL world, you don't find anything that specifically hunts people. Lions, tigers, and bears sometimes do but people aren't their primary prey and it's generally old and wek animals that go after people. Sharks go after people on a fairly regular basis (at least as I understand it, the last I read, the great shark debate had turned against the rehabilitators) but, since we're not really aquatic creatures, that mostly impacts the surfing community. In the D&amp;D world, the bestiary includes a LOT of large land predators from Remorhaz and Frost Worms to Bullettes, Wyverns, Chimera, dragons, and sphynxes. It also includes things like vampires that specifically prey on people.So, I'm not thinking we've only got tigers IRL, but in fantasyland, they've got chimeras and wyverns. Rather, my point is that we don't really have any natural predators IRL, but in fantasyland we do. That seems like it would make a huge difference. A rhino may be as dangerous as a chimera but rhinos don't generally go out looking for people to gore. Chimeras do go out looking for people to eat. The world would, I think, be quite different if predators in the great white shark class roamed the land freely. That's what I'm getting at. It's not the individual threat level but rather the difference in behavior patterns that makes a difference.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elder-Basilisk, post: 1710105, member: 3146"] Right but, if you look at the RL world, you don't find anything that specifically hunts people. Lions, tigers, and bears sometimes do but people aren't their primary prey and it's generally old and wek animals that go after people. Sharks go after people on a fairly regular basis (at least as I understand it, the last I read, the great shark debate had turned against the rehabilitators) but, since we're not really aquatic creatures, that mostly impacts the surfing community. In the D&D world, the bestiary includes a LOT of large land predators from Remorhaz and Frost Worms to Bullettes, Wyverns, Chimera, dragons, and sphynxes. It also includes things like vampires that specifically prey on people. So, I'm not thinking we've only got tigers IRL, but in fantasyland, they've got chimeras and wyverns. Rather, my point is that we don't really have any natural predators IRL, but in fantasyland we do. That seems like it would make a huge difference. A rhino may be as dangerous as a chimera but rhinos don't generally go out looking for people to gore. Chimeras [i]do[/i] go out looking for people to eat. The world would, I think, be quite different if predators in the great white shark class roamed the land freely. That's what I'm getting at. It's not the individual threat level but rather the difference in behavior patterns that makes a difference. [/QUOTE]

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