I've sat with my friends around table-top many times, and sometimes we're discussing how crazy characters could be or strange ways how a character might work using out of the ordinary stuff.
One of the ideas that were put forward last time was having a retired druid character with a flock of sheep or a herd of goats that he has been tending for several decades. The idea was to drive his sheep or goats towards a group of enemies while on the open plains using his shepherd dogs as a driving force to drive them to trample a simple group of thugs.
I'm now wondering if a scenario like this could work, could sheep trample enemies if driven to it? Would you need something bigger to accomplish this, for example cattle? And how large would the herd need to be?
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I'd use the Aurochs to understand trample (and stampede).
Guesstimate the damage of a trampling small-sized Goat (probably no more than the damage of its Gore, if not less) and work the Stampede mechanic around that.
It obviously wouldn't be much, but probably enough to ding up some 1 HD Bandits (or a low HP pack of Coyotes).