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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Theo R Cwithin" data-source="post: 5566562" data-attributes="member: 75712">Most ogres keep goats for food.  One mountain enclave has figured out  how to train their goats to hunt out rare herbs (ie, narcotics).  The  ogres eat such plants to remove the pains of hunger and/or improve their  battle prowess.Wild plains gnomes wielding lances charge into battle upon cheetahs, and can communicate with their great cats in a simple battle-language of growls and shrieks.Forest gnomes keep great praying mantises around the perimeter of their hidden villages to keep unwanted guests away.  There is also a school of forest gnome oracles who insist the multi-faceted eyes of the enormous insects aid their magicks when hollowed out and worn helmet-like upon the head.A tribe of "ghouls" (it's unknown if they are actual undead, or degenerate humanoid cannibals) trains stirges to bring blood back to them for food; to lead them to prey; and to 'soften up' enemies before a battle/raid.Lizardfolk keep great pens of toads, "milking" them for poison to enhance their weapons; as well as consuming (and occasionally trading) their eggs.  Though admittedly an aquired taste, this "toad caviar" is well-known among gourmands the world over.Certain semi-civilized grimlocks have bred a powerful variant of phantom fungus.  The tender young are often eaten, while the mature ones are generally used as beasts of burden. At a few points in their history, the grimlocks attempted to train the phantom fungi for use in battle, but those experiments have been largely abandoned because the great fungi are so slow.</blockquote>

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