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Advice for the Battlecry! classes seems to be missing, despite being referred to in the sidebar on page 5.

So, ZOG is the name of a prevalent antisemitic conspiracy theory, which I personally find enough of a reason not to use it for any kind of governing entity, but combined with the fact that it was run by goblins (given their history as vehicles of Jewish stereotypes in certain works of popular fantasy fiction) especially makes it something I don't feel great about. Like with the shorter form of shotalashu, I imagine this is another case of not looking up if your fantasy names might have some unintended connotations, but I'd like to be able to give a different name when uncovering goblin relics in the Echo Wood all the same.

Balalyka wrote:

Is there any rules-related reason why you couldn't just give a standard cavalier (or any archetype that doesn't change the mount feature) a dinosaur mount?

Rules-related? As Mysterious Stranger quoted it's right in the text of the cavalier's mount ability. Limited list (which does not include any dinosaurs). GM can approve another mount, though.

Any reason you couldn't take the Beast Rider archetype?

I guess it'd be more apt to call it a balance thing than a rules thing, my concern was whether giving the baseline cavalier a dinosaur mount would "take away" too much from the saurian champion and beast rider archetypes, in a sense.

Beast rider isn't a great fit either since it doesn't start out with a dinosaur mount at first level, and the progression centred around trading up to bigger, more "exotic" mounts doesn't really fit a character to whom dinosaurs aren't that unusual in the first place (plus, I don't think there are a lot of them to find out where she's going to be adventuring).

I'm trying to build a first-level dinosaur-riding cavalier from Holomog, but the saurian champion archetype doesn't seem particularly simpatico with that region's flavour, and the lack of a cavalier order in particular wouldn't really work for this character. Is there any rules-related reason why you couldn't just give a standard cavalier (or any archetype that doesn't change the mount feature) a dinosaur mount? Any other relevant options I might be overlooking?