My fellow fa/tg/uys I come to you with a humble request. I'm trying to add some domesticated attack animals to the various raiders, bandits, and guard groups in my setting. I've statted out various attack dogs, attack foxes, and attack hares already, but I need images of these things looking dangerous, charging, attacking people, or equipped with gear of some kind.
I'd really appreciate any help with attack animal images, as well as other ideas for attack animals.
Also to be clear I of course don't advocate the deliberate encouraging of animal violence in real life but it's a fantasy game and in such settings it's just a great idea for many groups.
Boars. Ferrets. Trained raptors. Battle tortoises with shell mounted chainsaws...
Justin Smith
Use the dogs from The Goddamned.
Andrew Adams
Odds are the best you're going to manage is a tamed one unless you're using dogs.
Jayden Lewis
Definitely boars. Another option, however, is ANTS.
Usually if they're scaled up I seem them at dog size, but I think rat sized would be much scarier. This way they can still crawl all over you and get in your armor/clothing (or worse).
Dominic Wilson
Any pics of attack bulls?
Juan Robinson
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Luke Howard
Don't make your players kill dogs. I hate when we have to fight dogs
Leo Anderson
ROUS Giant Kittens Ravens Rainclouds Poison Oak bushes in pots with wheels on them Parrots Elephants Baboons Wives Squids Chimps Potatos Corn Rice Onions Cows Pigs Sheep Chickens Peacocks Roses Llamas Alpacas Policemen Horses Ducks Swans Geese Zebras Eels Trout
Elijah Taylor
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Henry Cook
>onions The horror.
Daniel Peterson
probably too distinct but contributing
>attack hares would that even work?
Charles Hughes
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Jordan Young
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Ethan Gomez
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Ethan Wilson
attack pigs. I've seen pigs eat a man.
Chase King
But I've seen men eat pigs more
Cooper Bailey
I love it. What's the accuracy modifier?
Jacob Perez
Not what I was expecting when I clicked. Well done.
Alexander Robinson
about +2 (it's self guiding)
Ethan White
This Boars were considered one of the most dangerous animals to hunt for a reason
Dogs are almost the only animal man has ever used for this purpose. There are reasons for that. Just use dogs as mankind has all over the world in large numbers for thousands and thousands of years. They're extremely perceptive (and light sleepers) so they will notify their humans of they detect an intruder. They can potentially be trained to detect traps like modern bomb dogs as well. They can be used to track their humans' enemies if necessary. They can even carry packs or pull small carts. Dogs have a lot of uses and other dumb attack animals should be ignored for them. Give dogs the respect they deserve. If you want variety, just add in "modified" dogs the same way orcs are "modified" humans. Think things like Fallout 4's mutant hounds and ghoul mongrels.
Nolan Anderson
Skeletal doggo
Christian Foster
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Easton Williams
In case you needed a reminder why you don't want to get bitten by a doggo
Elijah Foster
>but you can't scale up dogs to challenge stronger PCs
The Tibetan mastiff; an animal which can seem more like a bear or a demon than the dogs us westerners are familiar with
Luis Smith
Derp, forgot pic
Connor Robinson
If you can scale up humans, you can scale up dogs
Luke Davis
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Kayden Brown
>I've statted out various attack dogs Have you stated a Kangal?
Dominic Rivera
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Ryan Wright
Mountain lion
Charles Cook
>using big cats to hunt boar
I kinda like this idea
Evan Sanchez
>Cultists of Yeenoghu
Jackson Scott
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Kevin Kelly
Dumping select pictures from my war doggos folder
Tyler Gonzalez
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Jose Hughes
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Alexander Thompson
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Jordan Garcia
Don't forget doggos can also be used as messengers or to run things like telegraph wire!
Luis Turner
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Lucas Miller
Literally the perfect adventuring companion
Isaiah Rivera
Who needs a healer when you have dog?
Alexander Thompson
You're high. A simple Google search tells me you're wrong. Horses, rats, pigs, even elephants have been used as autonomous attacking forces. Step up dummy.
Kevin Cox
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Sebastian Rodriguez
Horses, rats, pigs, and elephants were used very rarely because they really didn't work out that great. Dogs were used long before them and are still used today as military working animals. The only other animal I can think of that even comes close in use (historical or otherwise) would probably be the horse, which deserves an honorable mention.
Lucas Kelly
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Jeremiah Nguyen
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Joshua Wilson
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Owen Bennett
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Colton Reyes
I've actually never seen a HMG-armed dog sled. That's awesome.
Nathaniel Long
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Mason Ramirez
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Kayden Collins
Welcome to falconry motherfucker.
Justin Carter
Attack kitten!
Attaaaack kitten!
Christian Jones
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Thomas Robinson
D' y'like dags?
Cooper Howard
Hyenas raised by hand from pups are surprisingly biddable for wild animals and, as an apex predator, EXTREMELY dangerous.
Liam Lewis
Baaang
Carter Gutierrez
Giant mantis, those are scary
Nathan Perry
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Kevin Walker
The biggest problem with this kind of thing is that players get attached to their animal pals, which are usually more fragile than their player character, and get really bummed out when they inevitably get horribly murdered, usually moreso than if their character was killed. So for that reason I usually only let players have combat pets if they let me give them The Talk first. Other than that, there's mechanical and magical/familiar animals that you don't have to worry as much about dying which tend to make a good alternative.
Aaron Barnes
>What is elephantry? >Bat bombs and incendiary sparrows.
Nathan Perez
I call those very rarely used things in very few areas. Meanwhile, dogs have been with us for 15,000 to 30,000 years, helping us defend our territory, hunt our food, and numerous other activities all around the world.
Christopher Cook
Oh, and for comparison, horses were domesticated about 5,500 years ago.
