Quote Originally Posted by Teuciont View Post
I don't like to side with the public enemy, as he doesn't even supply a reason as to why, but having little "pets" that follow you around really cheapens the feel of being a rough and tumble seasoned adventurer into a a baby animal collector.
Who's to say we're ALL rough tough adventurers? It'd be one thing if you were forced to have a vanity pet to perform your role in a group better, but that's not really the case. It'd probably turn out like WoW where people either: a) seldom/never used pets, b) used the pets and obsessively collected them all for the sake of collecting them, or c) used the ones that made sense to them (ex: the guys RPing knights would use the argent squire vanity pet because it made sense for their character).

Not to mention it's pretty one-dimensional to expect everyone to be grizzled and "tough". That'd be like expecting a guy like Sten in Dragon Age to be into biting kittens' heads off just because the guy is a powerhouse on the battlefield (when in reality the guy liked fine paintings, playing with kittens and picking flowers 0.o).