Horses?

Bruno · 10-31-2017, 07:23 AM

If we were looking at PDF support, a 24 page PDF with fleshed out rules for riding and a wide variety of fantasy-appropriate mounts for newbs through to elite delvers would be pretty good. You could probably get it to 36 pages with horse/warg/whatever furniture (including items of quality), and 42 with magic items related to mounts and mounted combat.

Other things to pad it out to something like 64 pages would be: rules for capturing and taming wild monsters to be mounts; Cleric, Druid, and Wizard spells for summoning/creating mounts and making riding/mounted combat easier or posher; an entire mount-focused profession and/or "upgrade" lenses for the existing templates (knights, scouts, and barbarians in particular cry out for it; cool riding and mounted combat related power-ups.

More stuff that could go in if you need to get pagecount up for paper would be an Encounter designed to tutorial mounted combat, and/or a little adventure to send your PCs on a quest to get a cool mount (to help introduce them into an existing game).

For mounts I'm thinking you need a wide range, and they do double-duty as a bestiary.

Real animals, although not all real mounts:
Horses
Camels
Donkeys
Mules
Cattle
Big dogs or wolves
Sled dogs (if we're including carts and chariots)
Elephants
Llamas
Ostriches
Golden Eagles (for halflings?)
Deer
Antelope/Impala
Elk
Moose
Four legged dinosaurs (Triceratopsians and Anclyosaurians)
Two legged dinosaurs (the biggest raptors (like Deinonychus or Deinocherus) and then the spectacular ones like T-Rex or Albertasaurus or Carnotaurus (it has horns and eats meat!) )
A selection of the not-dinosaurs that people confuse for dinosaurs, including flying (Quetzalcoatlus!!) and perhaps even swimming creatures

Fictional stuff:
Really giant eagle
Gryphon
Hippogriff
Hippocampus
Dire boars
Giant monitor lizards or giant iguanas (why not both?)
Wall-climbing giant geckos
Giant ants
Giant wasps or dragonflys (why not both?)
Giant butterflies or moths
Enormous snakes (land and water and climbing!)

Giant spiders, wyverns, and dragons are in the monsters book but might need some treatment for mounts, or mount-friendly variants

10-31-2017, 07:23 AM	#9
Bruno Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Canada	Re: Horses? If we were looking at PDF support, a 24 page PDF with fleshed out rules for riding and a wide variety of fantasy-appropriate mounts for newbs through to elite delvers would be pretty good. You could probably get it to 36 pages with horse/warg/whatever furniture (including items of quality), and 42 with magic items related to mounts and mounted combat. Other things to pad it out to something like 64 pages would be: rules for capturing and taming wild monsters to be mounts; Cleric, Druid, and Wizard spells for summoning/creating mounts and making riding/mounted combat easier or posher; an entire mount-focused profession and/or "upgrade" lenses for the existing templates (knights, scouts, and barbarians in particular cry out for it; cool riding and mounted combat related power-ups. More stuff that could go in if you need to get pagecount up for paper would be an Encounter designed to tutorial mounted combat, and/or a little adventure to send your PCs on a quest to get a cool mount (to help introduce them into an existing game). For mounts I'm thinking you need a wide range, and they do double-duty as a bestiary. Real animals, although not all real mounts: Horses Camels Donkeys Mules Cattle Big dogs or wolves Sled dogs (if we're including carts and chariots) Elephants Llamas Ostriches Golden Eagles (for halflings?) Deer Antelope/Impala Elk Moose Four legged dinosaurs (Triceratopsians and Anclyosaurians) Two legged dinosaurs (the biggest raptors (like Deinonychus or Deinocherus) and then the spectacular ones like T-Rex or Albertasaurus or Carnotaurus (it has horns and eats meat!) ) A selection of the not-dinosaurs that people confuse for dinosaurs, including flying (Quetzalcoatlus!!) and perhaps even swimming creatures Fictional stuff: Really giant eagle Gryphon Hippogriff Hippocampus Dire boars Giant monitor lizards or giant iguanas (why not both?) Wall-climbing giant geckos Giant ants Giant wasps or dragonflys (why not both?) Giant butterflies or moths Enormous snakes (land and water and climbing!) Giant spiders, wyverns, and dragons are in the monsters book but might need some treatment for mounts, or mount-friendly variants __________________ All about Size Modifier; Unified Hit Location Table A Wiki for my F2F Group A neglected GURPS blog