Any wombat that has to resort to that is pretty sucky - I would back a wombat to win virtually any fight against any other animal, they are the toughest bastards pound for pound that I have ever seen.

Hmm, ratels are supposed to be the toughest. *sagenod me*

Do you think a ratel would take down a fully grown aggressive Rottweiler or Bull Mastif in a fight? I have seen wombats do that (and the wombats weren't even fully grown - only about 20-25kg instead of the 35kg they can grow to).

I'd trade my Archdemon for a wombat any day. Either that, or suggest a race of new sentient wombats for IRE's next MUD. They have no reverse gear. And generally speaking, they are not smart enough to go around obstacles. Then again, when you've got a wombat's brawn, 'through' is pretty much the same thing.

Toughest animal i think, Is an ant. If it was the size of a wombat, they'd dominate everything on earth. That, and spiders. if spdiers were the size of housecats, the human race would die off. and if you ran into a wombat's ass.....would you die form the smell,too?

One word: Lies!

You've clearly never seen a wombat at work.

So is Patchou Your kitty? Cute kitty...just don't get on its bad side! (I say its because I was afraid of what might happen if I checked gender.)

By the way, the parasites up on Astral have a power-draining venom in them...I'm always up for taking some of the corpses if you kill any.

There is nothing better than a spider. Kudos to wombats and ants and all that, but a skilled and/or deadly venomous spider can and will kill most wombats and ants in a one-on-one fight, even with their current size.

A few spider goons: The funnel web, and the daddy long legs! Oh, and army ants could be a fun critter to see liein' around. Or bulldog ants- something like, 15 bites from one of those is lethal to a human.

Oh, and of course, king cobras. I can see it now!

A jet of venoms whips in from the east to land on your face!
You claw your face, trying to get the agnozing fluid off, but succeed only in scratching your face and burning your hands.

Could be disfigurement, and damage!

*debates making a wombat mount for players*

*is going to get a Rabid Platapus pet*

60,000 years ago, Australia had "Superfauna". We had Wombats as big as Elephants, and Kangaroos like 5 metres tall.

They all died out though because the smaller ones needed to eat less.

*urges Fain to create elephant sized wombats*

Not to mention titanic ground sloths. Man were they ever cool. I saw one like slap a sabretooth tiger on a documentary once. It flew like 10 metres.

Due to overwhelming support of the Wombat culture, you can now own your very own Giant wombats, which make suitable pets to ride! Purchase them and ponies from the lovely village of Estelbar!

It would be interesting if mounts were like commodities... Perhaps a quest or two which can help the village produce them and then the city/commune gets "taxes" or "tithes" depending on how many are sold.

*high-pitched fangirl screaming*

Wombats are hardcore. You can shoot one, and the bullet will just be stopped by their layer of fat and slowly be worked back out, to the point where it just drops out of them. Surely arrows would be no match for their layer of bulk!

Eep. Estelbar has a stables now? I better go check.

I know I'm going to be flamed for this, but nothing is has more endurance than a bullfrog, or any frog really. I use to do frog gigging when I was a lad and once you caught your frogs you would have to clean them. Chop off the legs, throw the front away, and it would crawl back into the lake and live for about three-four more days, depending on if it was eaten. Any animal that can survive being chopped in half and go about life like nothing really much happened is grand in my book. Oh, and the legs jump around and wiggle when you cook them or preserve them in salt.