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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''
** TheThere's [http://wwwold "Cats vs.d20srd Commoners" meme.org/srd/monsters/cat.htm The common housecat] in ''3.5'' is a serious threat to all 1st level characters, even those with class levels. This is because [[Scratch Damage|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 [[Death of a Thousand Cuts|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. Commoners were viable for a while when Player's Options introduced formidable advantages of the size<ref>both in critical hits and attack options, i.e. the big combatant can try to crush the small one with sheer weight without having to crawl a maze of wrestling rules</ref> and Guard action<ref>i.e. in the first melee round a prepared defender may attack first, ignoring [[Action Initiative]]</ref>, but then came D&D3, where such things don't exist, but Dexterity gives a cat good bonus both to attack and defence in addition to initiative, and cats became deadlier than ever before. [http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/cat.htm See 3.5 stats].
** The original "[https://web.archive.org/web/20030920170246/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 [[Schmuck Bait|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 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.
** Kobolds, having low HP and a reputation for cowardice, are frequently slaughtered in the open by first-level parties. They're also known for their trap-designing prowess, meaning that a clever DM can make a trap-filled death maze that can frighten well-prepared parties. The most popular recount of this happening is "Tucker's Kobolds", named after a particularly nefarious DM.
** 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 [[Wizards of the Coast]] ''D&D'' section [http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fc/20060721a 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.
** Quite a few fey arguably qualify—the well-known nymph, for example, has one ability you don't hear about too often: if you happen to catch a sight of the nymph naked, she can force you to make a fortitude save or die on the spot. Other kinds of fey are more "harmlessly cute" than the nymph, but tend to have a wide range of powerful magical abilities. Very few fey are harmless. In fact plenty of them will do horrible things to you given the chance.
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* Wastits in ''Human Occupied Landfill'' a.k.a. 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 ''[[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.
 
 
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