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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6616269" data-attributes="member: 5834">Zapp means he will kill a player's idea to regain unlimited hit points by ruling that chickens do not provide sufficient means to activate the effect. Since 5E actively encourages DMs to destroy any exploits such as killing chickens to gain as many hit points as the number of chickens he can drag around a dungeon, it is considered the rules. Myself? I would allow you to do it. I would create other ways of making it inconvenient such as the providing enough feed to keep the chickens alive. Asking where you're carrying them given the absence of easily obtainable magic bags. Having chicken or small animal shortages in regions you are at after a few forays into chicken or rat buying. I'd make you role-play catching rats or the like limiting the number you can carry. Plenty of very legitimate ways to limit the capacity of someone to carry around a ready supply of small animals to kill for hit points. Not to mention it would be funny to see some rat or chicken killing necromancer being known as the local vermin or poultry vampire. Have people showing up at  your door and filling your room with rodents and chickens, having their feces all about the room and you stinking of rat or chicken all the time. It would be a fun running joke.</blockquote>