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I've been considering for a long time creating an alternate system of mounts for different races/cultures in a setting. Inspired in part by Ashitaka's mount in Princess Mononoke, I was imagining what mounts each race in DnD style games might use. We have horses for humans (alternately camels and such for certain cultures), and even riding dogs for our smaller races (halflings for example). However, I would like other's input for some of these.

Humans: Horses (default), other suggestions?

Elves: Elk/deer. I just love the idea of these ethereal, slender creatures riding beasts that almost dance through the woods.

Dwarves: Rams. Just the image of mountain goats/rams racing along cliffsides with hammer and pick wielding dwarves astride makes an awesome picture to me.

Halflings: Riding dogs. Nomadic peoples who use the beasts for everything from hunting, defense and also mounts.

Orcs/Half-orcs: Boars. I imagine orcs breeding a whole sub-species of boars of a sufficient size to ride. Animals savage enough and capable of eating whatever foodstuffs are available in the wastelands that Orcs are often forced into.

Anyone have any suggestions for other animals for these races? Also, I picture half-elves using the mounts of either people they grew up with, but if you have another suggestion, it'd be appreciated. Also, I don't use gnomes much, so if anyone has any suggested mounts for them, I literally have no ideas (barring clockwork, but my idea of gnomes started with tinker gnomes in Dragonlance), so any suggestions would be extremely appreciated.

-Chris

Hi. I'm looking for some advice on which of the adventure paths to start running for a group of kids.

In detail, this will be a group of three to five boys aged 10-12 who are all friends through a school designed for highly gifted kids (with all the craziness that implies-Big Bang Theory is a go-to example to explain these kids). I've decided to run Pathfinder because I have access to a lot of material for it, though for now I'm just going with the core book and a single adventure path. With this in mind, I'm asking for advice on which of the adventure paths would be best to run for a group like this. I'll be editing a bit to de-emphasize religious elements as I don't know how the parents would entirely take to polytheism (I remember my parents freaking out a bit and I don't want to alienate my sons for their friends), but for the most part, I just want something relatively straight-forwards for kids to get into and enjoy for their first game.

Thanks.