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Phil Masters · 12-19-2020, 11:28 AM

Yeah, I've been told before that hippos were seriously dangerous. Just seeing one yawning in a zoo... would make me unwilling to test the point.

The "players spooked by bad experience with animals in other games" thing may have a justification of sorts. There's an account from 1997 of a Siberian tiger which turned man-eater after it was wounded by a poacher. (And it appears to have deliberately stalked and killed the guy who wounded it.) The guy who had to take a team after it normally worked to stop poaching. In the version of the story I read, he was tracking it with his colleagues and moving a few yards ahead of the others when the dogs went quiet. The next thing he remembered was waking up under a dead tiger with multiple bullets from his colleagues in it.

He was physically okay, but he gave that job up, and from the story I read, very seriously permanently spooked by it. Failed Fright Check at large penalties leading to ... tigriphobia, I guess?

12-19-2020, 11:28 AM	#58
Phil Masters Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: U.K.	Re: Make Animals Threatening [Basic] Yeah, I've been told before that hippos were seriously dangerous. Just seeing one yawning in a zoo... would make me unwilling to test the point. The "players spooked by bad experience with animals in other games" thing may have a justification of sorts. There's an account from 1997 of a Siberian tiger which turned man-eater after it was wounded by a poacher. (And it appears to have deliberately stalked and killed the guy who wounded it.) The guy who had to take a team after it normally worked to stop poaching. In the version of the story I read, he was tracking it with his colleagues and moving a few yards ahead of the others when the dogs went quiet. The next thing he remembered was waking up under a dead tiger with multiple bullets from his colleagues in it. He was physically okay, but he gave that job up, and from the story I read, very seriously permanently spooked by it. Failed Fright Check at large penalties leading to ... tigriphobia, I guess? __________________ -- Phil Masters My Home Page. My Self-Publications: On Warehouse 23 and On DriveThruRPG.