History KillerRabbit / TableTopGames

* ''TabletopGame/{{Starfinder}}: [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Skittermander]] whelps (children who [[BizarreAlienBiology haven't become fully sapient yet]]) are basically [[Film/{{Critters}} Crites]], albeit just feral and hungry rather than malicious. If one discounts the [[BellyMouth disturbing bitey umbilical cords]], they look rather like eight-legged kittens.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Starfinder}}: {{RidiculouslyCuteCritter Skittermander]] whelps (children who [[BizarreAlienBiology haven't become fully sapient yet]]) are basically [[Film/{{Critters}} Crites]], albeit just feral and hungry rather than malicious. If one discounts the [[BellyMouth disturbing bitey umbilical cords]], they look rather like eight-legged kittens.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Starfinder}}: {{RidiculouslyCuteCritter Skittermander]] whelps (children who [[BizarreAlienBiology haven't become fully sapient yet]]) are basically [[Film/{{Critters}} Crites]], albeit just feral and hungry rather than malicious. If one discounts the [[BellyMouth disturbing bitey umbilical cords, they look rather like eight-legged kittens.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Bulldogs}}'': Urseminites are essentially [[StarWars Ewoks]] with an ''extra''-bad attitude, looking like living teddy bears with not even much in the way of natural weaponry but having a deserved reputation as little psychos who, to quote their description, "revel in vice". There's a not implausible in-universe theory that they're the result of an experiment in domestic genetic engineering gone horribly wrong...and they can be player characters.

** The [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/cat.htm common housecat]] in ''3.5'' is a serious threat to all 1st level characters, even those with class levels. This is because [[ScratchDamage all successful attacks deal at least one point of damage]], and cats get up to three a round. A level-appropriate encounter of four stray cats can [[DeathOfAThousandCuts easily wipe out a 1st level party]], ''especially'' if the cats use their racial stealth bonuses to launch a surprise attack. This is why 1st level [[{{NPC}} Commoners]] don't walk down alleyways at night.
*** First edition cats had higher damage bites (1-2) and automatic "rake" attacks - if the cat hits with its combined claw attack for 1 dmg, it automatically hits with both rear claws for 1-2 more damage. Five damage will severely injure or kill most first level first edition {{PC}}s - the absolute maximum being fifteen for the hardiest dwarven fighter with maximum HP. As for your first level mage, five damage will flatline 90% of them - only max hp/max con bonus allowing survival till the next round.
** The original ''TabletopGame/{{Arduin}} Grimoire'', a very early third-party supplement, included among its bestiary a creature called the "killkitten". Resembling normal kittens, these beasts were actually cunning pack predators whose hollow claws could inject a paralytic poison. Their normal procedure was to set one of their number as [[SchmuckBait bait to attract a potential victim]] by acting like an injured kitten, while the remainder of the pack lurked, hidden, nearby. When the unsuspecting schmuck picked the "kitten" up, it would paralyze him with its venom, after which the rest of the pack would swarm and eat him.
** The Tibbit, a player race introduced in Dragon Magazine, are perfectly normal humanoids that happen to be able to take on housecat form at will. One of the illustrations on their section in the Dragon Compendium is a man lying facedown in a pool of blood, with a metric ton of cutlery jutting from his back and a glowering kitty crouched on top of him.

** The 3.5E Monster Manual IV introduced the Skiurid, an evil squirrel from the Plane of Shadow, and generally regarded as one of the worst monsters ''D&D'' ever introduced. Then an infamous column on the Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast ''D&D'' section came along, specifically looking for ways to make Skiurids lethal. The squirrels are quite capable of bringing even a mid-level party of well-equipped adventurers to their knees.
** The giant shrew, a critter from Basic ''D&D'', looked like a normal-sized grayish rat, yet could do a pretty good Vorpal Bunny impression on low-level adventurers.

** "Blink bunny", called Al-mi'raj ("experiment 72") by the [[OurGnomesAreWeirder gnomes]] of [[Literature/{{Dragonlance}} Krynn]]. It's just a stupid bunny, but it can teleport around, is nearly fearless and has a unicorn-like horn which it doesn't hesitate to use if threatened. Oh, and it's a herd animal. Now the bad news: one of ten adults have PsychicPowers with a ridiculously large power pool. The dreaded rust monster may decay one's sword or armor if it manages to hit it with its antennae, but a psionic blink bunny can blast it into a cloud of shrapnel just by looking at it. It also can set stuff afire and control flames so that it or its nest isn't hurt. While flying around. It first appeared in 1st/2nd edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' in the original ''Fiend Folio'', and is based on the Miraj (see Literature). The very first version of the Al-mi'raj was just an ordinary, very fast, dimwitted, unpredictable rabbit that appeared in packs of 2-20 and which could deal damage as per a dagger by stabbing someone with their horn.
*** The 3.5 version (appearing in the OGL-based "Tome of Horrors" books) underwent a severe cutback, being only CR 1/2. This version of the Al-mi'raj sits between the 1e and 2e versions, being capable only of teleporting (Blink as a free action, Dimension Door 1/round) and stabbing with its horn like a weak dagger (1d4-2 damage).
*** The TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} version, though, went back to being a true KillerRabbit. Though it lost its teleporting powers, it became a whirling, acrobatic, carnivorous dervish of death that cripples prey by stabbing out their legs and then eating them alive -- a necessity, as its horn petrifies creatures that it slays.

* ''Hackmaster 4th edition''
** The Killer Bunny is featured as a random encounter in this game. This creature is extremely dangerous, doing 100 Damage every hit. The cute looking rabbit is known to cause a TotalPartyKill. Any adventurer that has ever survived such a random encounter will run for their lives or at least be very cautious whenever they unexpectedly encounter a cute bunny.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}: The Weird West'' features {{jackalope}}s, which are evil and carnivorous versions of the infamous "rabbits with antlers" from Wild West folklore. They kill their prey by cursing them with bad luck, then stalking them until they suffer a fatal accident. It also has "Dusters", which resemble dust-covered, scrawny versions of small harmless mammals -- squirrels, cats, rabbits, whatever -- who can evaporate all water around themselves. But killing people by drying up all their water in the desert isn't enough for them. See, if a Duster can touch a living creature -- like, say, a human -- it can suck all the water out of that creature, mummifying them alive...

* ''TabletopGame/TheWitcherGameOfImagination'' comes with few, most notably:
** Cockatrice is a turkey-sized mix of lizard and pheasant, looking mostly like the latter. Doesn't sound intimidating? It can easily sneak up and peck out kidney or spine of their victim with with a single strike. One success more than required during the attack roll, and it will reach a vital organ with its peck, dealing an additional 3d6 damage and another d3 from bleeding each round. That's enough to kill or incapacitate a character. To make matters worse, it has enough ''Sneaking'' skill to easily ambush a character, thus making it even easier to strike a killing blow.
** Echinopses are almost like porcupines. The only difference is that they can shoot a few of their spines for a very short distance. If those spines hit anything, they break and migrate deeper. It's not only painful, but also requires ''an operation'' or strong magic healing to remove them. Untreated, such wound will eventually kill a character via sepsis.
* ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'' has a hilariously literal version with the Hoops, a race of bunnymen who [[ANaziByAnyOtherName "want to be the master race"]] and who can turn metal into rubber by touching it.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
** The setting, known for a habit of EverythingTryingToKillYou cropping up everywhere, brings us the Catachan Barking Toad: a large, sad-looking amphibian sometimes dubbed the "Ronery Toad". If attacked, hurt or even surprised, it explodes into a cloud of obscenely virulent toxins, killing absolutely everything for miles around and poisoning the earth so that nothing will ever grow there again.
** The original "Rogue Trader" book for ''Warhammer 40K'' also featured the "Catachan Face Eater" a carnivorous creature that looked quite a bit like an ordinary wash cloth.
* Plenty of the weapons in the (coincidentally-named) ''TabletopGame/KillerBunniesAndTheQuestForTheMagicCarrot'' game fall under this. Included:

* Wastits in ''TabletopGame/{{HoL}}'' -- small, cute waddling soft creatures resembling animated teddy bears that will suddenly "explode into a maw of teeth the diameter of a whale's privates". For added fun, until they attack they're almost indistinguishable from wastems, completely harmless creatures that are the primary food source of [=HoL=]'s inhabitants.
* Most of the creatures that ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'''s shapeshifters start out as are pretty dangerous on their own (lions, bears, eagles, etc.), but a fox magician character can lead to a cute little ten-pound fox hurling fireballs.
* Due to it's mechanics (open ended attack rolls and instant death criticals), any creature in ''TabletopGame/RoleMaster'' could fit this trope. Your level twenty badass fully armoured dwarf warrior can get his throat ripped out by a single rat with a lucky set of dice rolls.
* Urseminites in ''TabletopGame/{{Bulldogs}}'' are essentially [[StarWars Ewoks]] with an ''extra''-bad attitude, looking like living teddy bears with not even much in the way of natural weaponry but having a deserved reputation as little psychos who, to quote their description, "revel in vice". There's a not implausible in-universe theory that they're the result of an experiment in domestic genetic engineering gone horribly wrong...and they can be player characters.
* Zot the Wizard from ''TabletopGame/RedDragonInn'' has a literal killer rabbit in the form of his familiar Pooky. A later expansion even makes Pooky playable as a stand-alone character.
* Gimcrak the quasit from the ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' ''Wrath of the Righteous'' adventure path. He's an UglyCute Ken doll-sized demon in a tiny leather BDSM outfit. Why's he wearing all that black leather? Because he has 10 levels in assassin, and he is scarily good with his tiny little knife.

** The original "[[http://www.arduin.com Arduin Grimoire]]", a very early third-party supplement, included among its bestiary a creature called the "killkitten". Resembling normal kittens, these beasts were actually cunning pack predators whose hollow claws could inject a paralytic poison. Their normal procedure was to set one of their number as [[SchmuckBait bait to attract a potential victim]] by acting like an injured kitten, while the remainder of the pack lurked, hidden, nearby. When the unsuspecting schmuck picked the "kitten" up, it would paralyze him with its venom, after which the rest of the pack would swarm and eat him.

* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} IOU'' includes lethal versions of rats and squirrels.

** Echinopses are almost like porcupines. The only difference is that they can shoot a few of their spines for a very short distance. If those spines hit anything, they break and migrate deeper. It's not only painful, but also requires ''an operation'' or strong magic healing to remove them. Untreated, such wound will eventually kill a character.

* Due to it's mechanics (open ended attack rolls and instant death criticals), any creature in ''RoleMaster'' could fit this trope. Your level twenty badass fully armoured dwarf warrior can get his throat ripped out by a single rat with a lucky set of dice rolls.

** The 3.5E Monster Manual IV introduced the Skiurid, an evil squirrel from the Plane of Shadow, and generally regarded as one of the worst monsters ''D&D'' ever introduced. Then an infamous column on the WizardsOfTheCoast ''D&D'' section came along, specifically looking for ways to make Skiurids lethal. The squirrels are quite capable of bringing even a mid-level party of well-equipped adventurers to their knees.

* Plenty of the weapons in the (coincidentally-named) ''KillerBunniesAndTheQuestForTheMagicCarrot'' game fall under this. Included:

* Cockatrice is a turkey-sized mix of lizard and pheasant, looking mostly like the latter. Doesn't sound intimidating? It can easily sneak up and peck out kidney or spine of their victim with with a single strike. One success more than required during the attack roll, and it will reach a vital organ with its peck, dealing an additional 3d6 damage and another d3 from bleeding each round. That's enough to kill or incapacitate a character. To make matters worse, it has enough ''Sneaking'' skill to easily ambush a character, thus making it even easier to strike a killing blow.
* Echinopses are almost like porcupines. The only difference is that they can shoot a few of their spines for a very short distance. If those spines hit anything, they break and migrate deeper. It's not only painful, but also requires ''an operation'' or strong magic healing to remove them. Untreated, such wound will eventually kill a character.

* ''{{GURPS}} IOU'' includes lethal versions of rats and squirrels.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}: The Weird West'' features jackalopes, which are evil and carnivorous versions of the infamous "rabbits with antlers" from Wild West folklore. They kill their prey by cursing them with bad luck, then stalking them until they suffer a fatal accident. It also has "Dusters", which resemble dust-covered, scrawny versions of small harmless mammals -- squirrels, cats, rabbits, whatever -- who can evaporate all water around themselves. But killing people by drying up all their water in the desert isn't enough for them. See, if a Duster can touch a living creature -- like, say, a human -- it can suck all the water out of that creature, mummifying them alive...

** "Blink bunny", called Al-mi'raj ("experiment 72") by the [[OurGnomesAreWeirder gnomes]] of [[Literature/{{Dragonlance}} Krynn]]. It's just a stupid bunny, but it can teleport around, is nearly fearless and has a unicorn-like horn which it doesn't hesitate to use if threatened. Oh, and it's a herd animal. Now the bad news: one of ten adults have PsychicPowers with a ridiculously large power pool. The dreaded rust monster may decay one's sword or armor if it manages to hit it with its antennae, but a psionic blink bunny can blast it into a cloud of shrapnel just by looking at it. It also can set stuff afire and control flames so that it or its nest isn't hurt. While flying around. It first appeared in 1st/2nd edition ''DungeonsAndDragons'' in the original ''Fiend Folio'', and is based on the Miraj (see Literature). The very first version of the Al-mi'raj was just an ordinary, very fast, dimwitted, unpredictable rabbit that appeared in packs of 2-20 and which could deal damage as per a dagger by stabbing someone with their horn.

** The Killer Bunny is featured as a random encounter in this game. This creature is extremely dangerous doing 100 Damage every hit. The cute looking rabbit is known to cause a TotalPartyKill. Any adventurer that has ever survived such random encounter will run for there lives whenever they unexpectedly encounter a cute bunny or be very cautious.

** "Blink bunny", called Al-mi'raj ("experiment 72") by the [[OurGnomesAreWeirder gnomes]] of [[Literature/{{Dragonlance}} Krynn]]. It's just a stupid bunny, but it can teleport around, is nearly fearless and have an unicorn-like horn which it doesn't hesitate to use if threatened. Oh, and it's a herd animal. Now the bad news: one of ten adults have PsychicPowers with ridiculously large power pool. The dreaded rust monster may decay one's sword or armor if manages to hit it with antennae, but a psionic blink bunny can blast it into cloud of shrapnel just by looking at it. It also can set stuff afire and control flames so that it or its nest isn't hurt. While flying around. It first appeared in 1st/2nd edition ''DungeonsAndDragons'' in the original ''Fiend Folio'', and is based on the Miraj (see Literature). The very first version of the Al-mi'raj was just an ordinary, very fast, dimwitted, unpredictable rabbit that appeared in packs of 2-20 and which could deal damage as per a dagger by stabbing someone with their horn.

** The Tibbit, a player race introduced in Dragon Magazine, are perfectly normal humanoids that happen to be able to take on housecat form at will. One of the illustrations on their section in the Dragon Compendium is man lying facedown in a pool of blood, with a metric ton of cutlery jutting from his back and a glowering kitty crouched on top of him.

*** First edition cats had higher damage bites (1-2) and automatic "rake" attacks - if the cat hits with it's combined claw attack for 1 dmg, it automatically hits with both rear claws for 1-2 more damage. Five damage will severely injure or kill most first level first edition {{PC}}s - the absolute maximum being fifteen for the hardiest dwarven fighter with maximum HP. As for your first level mage, five damage will flatline 90% of them - only max hp/max con bonus allowing survival till the next round.

* ''DungeonsAndDragons''

** "Blink bunny", called Al-mi'raj ("experiment 72") by the [[OurGnomesAreWeirder gnomes]] of [[{{Dragonlance}} Krynn]]. It's just a stupid bunny, but it can teleport around, is nearly fearless and have an unicorn-like horn which it doesn't hesitate to use if threatened. Oh, and it's a herd animal. Now the bad news: one of ten adults have PsychicPowers with ridiculously large power pool. The dreaded rust monster may decay one's sword or armor if manages to hit it with antennae, but a psionic blink bunny can blast it into cloud of shrapnel just by looking at it. It also can set stuff afire and control flames so that it or its nest isn't hurt. While flying around. It first appeared in 1st/2nd edition ''DungeonsAndDragons'' in the original ''Fiend Folio'', and is based on the Miraj (see Literature). The very first version of the Al-mi'raj was just an ordinary, very fast, dimwitted, unpredictable rabbit that appeared in packs of 2-20 and which could deal damage as per a dagger by stabbing someone with their horn.

* ''{{Deadlands}}: The Weird West'' features jackalopes, which are evil and carnivorous versions of the infamous "rabbits with antlers" from Wild West folklore. They kill their prey by cursing them with bad luck, then stalking them until they suffer a fatal accident.

** The giant shrew, a critter from Basic ''D&D'', looked like a normal-sized grayish rat, yet could do a pretty good VorpalBunny impression on low-level adventurers.