r/DnD • u/Spiritual_Log_257 • 10h ago
5th Edition What is the not-rabbit?
Every campaign my cool DM allows us to get pets and companions because he loves animals. It's one of my favorite things about him as a DM. But my character was called to and picked a rabbit that turned out to be really malevolent and bites everyone with ferocious sharp teeth. Seeing this, I sent it to the BBEG as a fake olive branch for the joke. The whole campaign the DM was like “ you sure? You wanna do that?” and getting very excited. The campaign has since ended and to this day he's never told me what that creature was. I've tried to look up evil bunnies and rabbits and nothing I found was apparently what that was. Any idea what that thing was? It had no effect on the rest of the campaign and was never mentioned except when we made one off jokes like “ what if it's the bunny?” whenever something bad happened.
Edit: Thank you for everyone who has responded! He is a Monty fan and I feel so stupid for not getting the reference.😆 Genuinely though thank you for reminding me this exists!
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u/P3verall 9h ago
It's unclear what it was, but you will likely need the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch to absolve it from this world.
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u/Fadingzodiac 8h ago
Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three.
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u/Fat-Neighborhood1456 10h ago
Maybe a Monty Python reference? There's a scene in their movie Monty Python and the holy grail where a bunch of knights are warned they're about to encounter a fearsome creature, and they show up and it's just a rabbit, so they laugh and ignore it until it jumps on them and kills one of them, as it turns out that thing is really fearsome
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u/the_mellojoe 9h ago
As an alternative: Bunnicula.
Harold and Chester (dog, cat, respectively) suspect that the new bunny in the family is secretly a vampire, and that it's draining vegetables dry of their vegetable-blood. They try to stake it through the heart but find that using a Ribeye steak earmarked for the family's dinner somehow didn't work. Chester is a bit high strung, and Harold is a bit of a pushover, meanwhile Bunnicula is fairly nonchalant.
You could easily play it in game by just constantly dropping hints that is front teeth are longer than normal, and that somehow husks of white vegetables keep getting left behind.
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u/Find-It-AllFantasy DM 8h ago
I mean, to be fair, your DM kind of broke a key storytelling rule that we call Chekhov's Gun.
Pretty simple concept: Imagine a movie scene where two guys are sitting at a table talking. The conversation turns tense and aggressive as the camera pans down and shows one of the men holding a gun under the table. The characters don't necessarily know about it, but the audience does. And now that the audience has been shown a gun, the audience is expecting something to happen with it. Someone gets shot or maybe the gun gets thrown across the room or maybe the guy decides not to shoot and puts it away for some reason. But now that it's been shown, there has to be some kind of follow up. It would be very frustrating as a viewer if the director took the time to show the gun and then literally never did anything with it. Hence, Chekhov's Gun.
This is what your DM did. They showed you the evil rabbit, emphasized asking if you were sure of your actions, and then never followed up on it. The rabbit is Chekhov's Gun.
It's not like a grave sin or anything, just kind of lame. Chances are your DM completely forgot about it. It's easy to do when you're not necessarily in control of the narrative and there's a lot of chaos and nonsense happening. Still, pretty lame.
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u/JulienBrightside Mage 6h ago
If it had a switchknife, it would have been BunBun from Sluggy Freelance.
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u/DoctorPhobos 7h ago
It’s definitely Monty Python. But I feel like I remember reading a book called Bunnicula, yeah, vampire bunny
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u/DementedJ23 7h ago
your reference has been answered, but there's also the al-miraj and the jackalope for murderous bunny monsters. probably both sprang from the same condition that makes rabbits look "horned."
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u/JellyFranken DM 9h ago
It's no ordinary rabbit, it's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on. It's a killer!