Editing Bunnies & Burrows (section)

==Gameplay==
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The original game was very innovative for its time (less than two years after the first published RPG). Not only could you play non-humanoids for the first time, but it was the first role-playing game to have detailed martial arts rules, the first attempt at a skill system, and the first RPG to appeal as widely to women as to men.<ref name="sos" />
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''Bunnies & Burrows'' was the first role-playing game to allow for non-humanoid play.<ref name="sos">{{cite web |url=http://www.panix.com/~sos/rpg/bunny.html|title=Bunnies & Burrows|access-date=2007-09-11|author=Steffan O'Sullivan|date=1998-06-20|publisher=SOS' Gameviews}}</ref><ref name="ptgptb3">{{cite web |url=http://ptgptb.org/0003/news3.html |title=RPG News |access-date=2007-09-11 |date=June 1998|issue=3 |publisher=Places to Go, People to Be}}</ref> In addition, it was also the first role-playing game to have detailed martial arts rules (renamed "''Bun Fu''" in GURPS Bunnies & Burrows)<ref name="rpgnet2">{{cite web |url=http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12907.phtml |title=Review of GURPS Bunnies & Burrows |access-date=2007-09-11 |author=Lev Lafayette |date=2007-04-16 |publisher=[[RPGnet]]}}</ref> and the first attempt at a skill system.<ref name="sos"/> For its time, the game was considered by some "light years" ahead of the [[Editions of Dungeons & Dragons|Original ''Dungeons & Dragons'']].<ref name="rpgnet1">{{cite web |url=http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_4598.html |title=Bunnies and Burrows |access-date=2007-09-11 |author=Jason Morningstar |author-link=Jason Morningstar |date=2001-08-07 |publisher=[[RPGnet]]}}</ref>

[[Player (game)|Players]] of ''Bunnies & Burrows'' take the role of [[rabbit]]s as their [[player characters]]. Interaction with many different animal species is part of normal gameplay. [[Human]]s, whose thought processes and motivations are completely alien, are the only monster to be encountered.<ref name="rollsite">{{cite web |url=https://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=navclient&hl=en&u=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eroliste%2ecom%2fdetail%2ejsp%3fid%3d8166 |title=Bunnies & Burrows (French) |access-date=2007-09-11 |publisher=Rollsite}}</ref>

''Bunnies & Burrows'' has the advantage of offering players an intuitive grasp of relative dangers and appropriate actions not possible in [[Fictional universe|game worlds]] that are substantially fictional. For example, a player is told their character is confronted with a [[fox]]. There is an immediate intuition on the amount of peril a rabbit is facing. Since player characters are substantially weaker than many of the dangers they face, the game is one of the first to encourage problem solving and outwitting obstacles, rather than out-fighting them.<ref name="rollsite"/>

The mechanics of the [[role-playing game system]] were created specifically for ''Bunnies & Burrows'', common at the time of its original publishing. It features eight [[statistic (role-playing games)|abilities]] and eight [[character class|classes]]. The task resolution system is based on rolls of [[percentile dice]].<ref name="rollsite"/> Although newer systems have updated game mechanics significantly, the ideas presented in ''Bunnies & Burrows'' created the framework for modern role-playing games.<ref name="played"/>