DRD1812 |
blahpers |
Goblin gunslinger riding a "dire pig" (statted as a boar with bite instead of gore). Still going strong at 17/M5.
Though my druid did have a brief moment of level 1 awesome when he charmed a captive great white shark. Dove into water. Shark leapt up and grabbed its captor from the pier. I hopped off. The shark landed back in the water and dove a bit to enjoy its meal.
One of these days I'll try a flying mount. : )
Dale McCoy Jr Jon Brazer Enterprises |
PodTrooper |
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Gelatinous Cube.
Rigged a metal "saddle" that rode on top.
Enchanted the saddle to increase the mount's speed.
Stole the idea from my DM (many years ago AD&D 1E), who had a city where the sanitation department used them as street sweepers.
Kept the city clear of refuse, night-soil, and even the odd drunk/homeless peasant.
My PC immediately said "gotta have that."
Many a marginally-perceptive enemy was surprised when closing into melee with my "floating" character.
PodTrooper |
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You'd think some irritated relatives would leave a barrel of caustic lye for the cube to pick up.
I think the most out there I've got was a giant owl, and that was in AD&D.
That would have been a serious offense there. Assaulting city workers.
City was run by a LE "paladin" (Dragon magazine published variants for each of the alignments).It wasn't an oppressive place per se. Very strict, sure; and the list of capital offenses was ponderous. But if you followed the rules (all of them), you were fine.
And the city WAS efficient and prosperous. Public drunkenness (enough to pass out), or being indigent, were illegal too - so not much fuss was raised if a few of those miscreants went missing.
I'm Hiding In Your Closet |
A roller-skate.
I'm Hiding In Your Closet |
That would have been a serious offense there. Assaulting city workers.
City was run by a LE "paladin" (Dragon magazine published variants for each of the alignments).
It wasn't an oppressive place per se. Very strict, sure; and the list of capital offenses was ponderous. But if you followed the rules (all of them), you were fine.
And the city WAS efficient and prosperous. Public drunkenness (enough to pass out), or being indigent, were illegal too - so not much fuss was raised if a few of those miscreants went missing.
I'm now picturing a highly-punctual public transportation system that consists of gelatinous cubes rather than locomotive cars.
Tim Emrick |
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In my current campaign, the party met a NPC druid who rode her an axebeak companion. The rogue PC kept asking how he could get one, and one player even joked that if they help the druids long enough, they'll all get one. He was sad when he he was told that it required a great deal of time and effort to raise one as a mount--and he doesn't have a single one of the necessary skills.
The campaign is intended to go from level 1 to 20, and have the PCs fight the Tarrasque as the capstone adventure. The cavalier has the most ambitious personal goal in the game: She's a half-orc from a tribe that worships the Tarrasque as a god--and she wants to ride THAT someday! Her reasoning is that if she can make the Tarrasque bend to her will, then she will become like a goddess herself.
Sah |
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I can't seem to find it at the moment, because I can't remember it's name, but it was a 3.5 joke homebrew class that could ride anything. A prerequisite was a low int score, because you needed to not know that you couldn't ride the thing you wanted to ride.
It could ride literally anything, and I think at later levels it even got 1 hour before the thing in question even got a save. You could just hop on a Tarrasque and control it for an hour before it even had a chance at control.
One guy played it once in a campaign, and we discovered that the source of evil we had been fighting was blot the guy in control of the castle, but the castle itself, so we had to figure out how to destroy it.
I suggested "Hey, couldn't you just ride the castle into a volcano or something? "
To which he replied "Man, you're thinking too small. I'm gonna ride the volcano into the castle! "
We decided not to do that as we knew the Dm already had a quest ready and didn't wasn't you derail the campaign, but he still rode a volcano later.
I'm Hiding In Your Closet |
I can't seem to find it at the moment, because I can't remember it's name, but it was a 3.5 joke homebrew class that could ride anything. A prerequisite was a low int score, because you needed to not know that you couldn't ride the thing you wanted to ride.
Personally, I think nuttiness like that should be based on a low Wisdom, but other than that, great story!
Tiny Coffee Golem |
I always try to use familiars as mounts.
Elven wizard with an air elemental famliar. Permanent enlarge the familiar permanent reduce the caster (or use an item for one/both effects). Then the caster is small and the familiar is medium. Basically you can have a "mount" that flys at 100' perfect by level 3.
Also had a halfling wizard with an earth elemental shaped like an easy chair. Basically the halfling just sat on the "chair" as it moved around on its own. I dubbed him "the laziest wizard ever." The original idea was not mine, but I cant remember who it was to give credit.