Badger & Dire Badger

On paper, badgers are not threats.  But no player would want to corner a badger (let alone a dire one), so that’s just what you should make his or her PCs do.

A witch’s patron has sent her a badger familiar.  She soon finds its ability to burrow handy in delivering touch spells.

For such small creatures, a band of pixies can be challenging foes.  But most pixies never need to nock their arrows.  Instead, they use dancing lights to introduce assailants to the nearest dire badger.

A trap spills caltrops across a party’s path, then drops them into a pit that is home to a clan of dire badgers.  Already feeling threatened, those badgers damaged by the rain of caltrops go into a blood rage.

—Pathfinder Bestiary 2 40