Hatching a Gryphon


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Ive been wanting to recreate a Warden from the Dragon Age franchise and one of my goals is haivng a gryphon mount but i dont want to buy one later so i've conviced my DM to allow me to have an egg and start my journey with it hatched or hatching but my DM and I ran into a snag.

What is the matureing rate of a gryphon at what point is it mountable? weeks? months? years?

Does it grow as fast as a dog? a horse? a bird?

Specifics would be great!


Fast pace campaign or slow


A guide on Handle Animal, which may be relevant.

To generally simplify, it specifics that you can rear a magical beast (infancy to adulthood) in one year. While it might be a bit of a ballpark figure to generalize for rules sake, it's as good a lead as any.

You will need ranks, probably a lot of them, in Handle Animal to reliably pull this off. Raising gryphons isn't something your average stable keeper is capable of.


Saethori wrote:

A guide on Handle Animal, which may be relevant.

To generally simplify, it specifics that you can rear a magical beast (infancy to adulthood) in one year. While it might be a bit of a ballpark figure to generalize for rules sake, it's as good a lead as any.

You will need ranks, probably a lot of them, in Handle Animal to reliably pull this off. Raising gryphons isn't something your average stable keeper is capable of.

Griffons have an INT of 5. Handle Animal won't work.

I don't know, and don't think it's bbeen written down. I would make something up that is plot convenient. Maybe Griffons only hatch in the act of true heroism.

Edit: Read the bestiary entry, you might need handle animal.


MageHunter wrote:


Griffons have an INT of 5. Handle Animal won't work.

The same book that discusses using Handle Animal to rear magical beasts (which almost always have 3+ INT) also mentions raising vermin (which almost always have - INT, being mindless). At least for the purposes of rearing creatures, the creature's INT score doesn't seem to matter.


i would say two to four years to train a gryphon cubling (don't know what to call a baby gryphon)and grow to size.
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a lion cub becomes a lion in 18 months. a foal becomes a mature horse in 7 year.
racehorses are ridden at 2 (often at 1 yr old) BUT racehorses are usually retired by 6 or 7 years of age. a horses skeletal system is not matured until they are around 4 years old, (some breeds take even longer to mature). Their bones are simply not fully formed, not strong enough and not designed to carry a persons weight at 2 years old. Horses usually mature at the age of 4-5. Often they reach full height at three. it can take a couple months or days or sometimes even years to saddle train a horse.
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all the stuff in the brackets i found asking google so take that with a grain of salt.
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that does not take into account if the gryphon is smarter then a normal animal. if the gryphon is intelligent and you not a bassturd to it the training might go by quite fast. except the flying training and waiting for your little friend to grow up to a size that can carry you through the air.

sorry if i am of no help. i wish you much luck in your endeavor. is your character getting the egg in mid campaign? or at the beginning of the campaign? if that is the case then you can start with a fully grown gryphon with all those years of training under your belt the gryphon's belt.


of coarse you can always ask your dm to plan for long breaks between lvls where you can say that you and your party members are training up and quickly chew through that time you could even role play some snippets of that off time where your all training. your companion gryphon as included as well as growing bigger learning to fly and what not.

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