How to buy a horse or other mount / pet (for cash)?

Hi all,

As a result of a conversaion with one of the players in my forthcoming PF2 game, I went looking to see if you could buy a riding drake for cash or if you needed to get one as a minion with an archetype. EDIT: At least I thought there was an archetype, but I cannot find that either!

As far as I could see you cannot. But as far as I can see you cannot buy a normal riding horse (or a pony, camel, riding dog, guard dog, homing pigeon, pet cat etc...) for cash either, so I assume I must be missing something. Am I? If so where do I need to look?

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glass.

Currently the only way to unlock riding drakes is to be a orc ( or half orc ) with the uncommon ( so with dm permission ) lvl 9 Dragon Grip feat ( which also requires the lvl 1 beast trainer feat ).

So even with an archetype ( or simply companion access ), you'll have to stick with the common companions ( unless ofc, your DM allows you to take other stuff with or without the feats requirements ).

As for animals, here you can find the prices.

Currently the only way to unlock riding drakes is to be a orc ( or half orc ) with the uncommon ( so with dm permission ) lvl 9 Dragon Grip feat ( which also requires the lvl 1 beast trainer feat ).

So even with an archetype ( or simply companion access ), you'll have to stick with the common companions ( unless ofc, your DM allows you to take other stuff with or without the feats requirements ).

As for animals, here you can find the prices.

(linkified the feats for future reference, since it took me a minute or two to find them.)

Thank you for the comprehensive answer. I must admit it would not have occured to me to look for Animals under Services, but since you can rent them it does kinda make sense.

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glass.

I ( actually, our group ) had the same issue not long ago reading the book ( it was thanks to the archive that we managed to get the information ).

Definitely tricky.

An uncommon feat which grants access to an equally uncommon option seems weird to me.

Anyway, since they're uncommon they should be harder to find and more expensive than a horse. We don't quite have stats for them as an independent creature, either, although the Drake entry says they're sometimes used as mounts.

An uncommon feat which grants access to an equally uncommon option seems weird to me.

It's an orc feat and orcs are uncommon, so it's an uncommon ancestry granting access to an uncommon feat that grants access to an uncommon option...