well arguably a riding dog would be a bit more flexible, but my personal favorite would be a Giant (tree) Frog, it might not look pretty, but at least it's original :)
if you are going druid and 3.5 material is in, there is a great racial substitution level (1st level) for halflings in Races of the Wild which would give you bonuses for riding, more skill points (and class skills) and useful spontaneous casting.
otherwise, druid is a still a good choice for a mounted character, and you could start with a wolf, then switch to leopard (for climb speed) or cheetah (for speed) at 4th level. Also keep in mind that larger mounts can be made smaller with reduce animal - hours per caster level.
happy riding!
You might want to look at a medium sized cat, say a mountain lion. While I like riding dogs a lot, a cat is more nimble for getting around in those tight dungeons.
Yar!
Back in THIS THREAD I listed several of the mounts availabe for small characters right off the bat. Also in THIS POST I made a more extensive list of mounts available for different classes at different levels plus trainable via handle animal.
As for ones that can climb in dungeons and whatnot... riding dog/wolf, large cats (Tiger), veloceraptors (though more for their abiity to jump rather than climb) are all good choices if permitted by the DM.
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Half-Dragon Riding Dog if you're worried about flying, and it makes a mean combatant as well, or a Monitor Lizard/Giant Gecko can also make an interesting, if slightly slower, mount. Remember a Monitor Lizard can swim, while a Giant Gecko can climb and lacks the poison bite attack, but has a slightly higher intelligence.
More a Cohort than a Mount, a Phase Spider with a specially-treated saddle, could potentially take you on an Ethereal Jaunt, and with you directing it the Phase Spider's Ethereal Ambush ability could be truly lethal.
Slap the Giant Creature on a Dire Rat and go to town. Can run at 50 feet, climb 30 feet and swim 30 feet ... just it's going to be a problem in civilised society as people run screaming from a rat as big as a man!
A more fun alternative could be a Giant Shocker Lizard, especially if you can wrangle 2 of them.
Wolverine makes for a fun mount for a Small-Sized character, and the rage ability is fun when you're trying desperately to stay in the saddle and your mount is going insane beneath you.
Dragons... Is there anything they won't copulate with? ;)
I think their plan is to try to upgrade everyone's genes with a shot of theirs.
Half-Dragon Riding DogDragons... Is there anything they won't copulate with? ;)
Judging from the rarity of Dragons in most campaigns, each other.
But in all seriousness, Half-Dragons in Pathfinder lore are more often the result of the tried and true "A Wizard did it." Scenario, in which Draconic blood is infused into the subject, mutating it, often in the womb.
I could fully see a Halfling Transmuter breeding a strain of Half-Brass Dragon Riding Dogs to provide his people with a potent form of offence and defence.
Hell, go with 'Magical Polution'. PCs kill a Dragon, take the hide, the heart and whatever other goodies they want and leave the rest. All that magically potent blood, litterally a enough to drown somebody in, soaks into the ground-water and the earth, still containing all it's inherent magical kung-fu, predators eat what remains behind after the PCs have had their fun, latent spell energies from the combat and the Dragon itself are ingested and the Wolf's still-developing pups have traces of highly-magical Dragon-flesh entering their systems via the umbilical cords.
A few months later, the She-Wolf goes through and extremely painful labour and gives birth to a half-dozen Green Dragon Wolf-Cubs, while the underground water supply has emptied out into a nearby lake, and some fish have begun to appear, mutated and strange with voracious appetites and deadly natural weapons.
The She-Wolf, with her strong maternal instinct keeps the 'deformed' pups, raises them as best she can after the pack shuns her and her pups and in a few years the PCs come back to find the woods are over-run with Draconic Wolves led by a pack of intelligent Half-Green Dragon Wolves, perhaps they're sorcerers too, and the spirit of the Green Dragon is urging them on for revenge against all Humanoids.
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Half-Dragon Riding DogDragons... Is there anything they won't copulate with? ;)Judging from the rarity of Dragons in most campaigns, each other.
But in all seriousness, Half-Dragons in Pathfinder lore are more often the result of the tried and true "A Wizard did it." Scenario, in which Draconic blood is infused into the subject, mutating it, often in the womb.
I could fully see a Halfling Transmuter breeding a strain of Half-Brass Dragon Riding Dogs to provide his people with a potent form of offence and defence.
Hell, go with 'Magical Polution'. PCs kill a Dragon, take the hide, the heart and whatever other goodies they want and leave the rest. All that magically potent blood, litterally a enough to drown somebody in, soaks into the ground-water and the earth, still containing all it's inherent magical kung-fu, predators eat what remains behind after the PCs have had their fun, latent spell energies from the combat and the Dragon itself are ingested and the Wolf's still-developing pups have traces of highly-magical Dragon-flesh entering their systems via the umbilical cords.
A few months later, the She-Wolf goes through and extremely painful labour and gives birth to a half-dozen Green Dragon Wolf-Cubs, while the underground water supply has emptied out into a nearby lake, and some fish have begun to appear, mutated and strange with voracious appetites and deadly natural weapons.
The She-Wolf, with her strong maternal instinct keeps the 'deformed' pups, raises them as best she can after the pack shuns her and her pups and in a few years the PCs come back to find the woods are over-run with Draconic Wolves led by a pack of intelligent Half-Green Dragon Wolves, perhaps they're sorcerers too, and the spirit of the Green Dragon is urging them on for revenge against all Humanoids.
Write an Adventure Module. Seriously. I'd totally buy and play it :P
Heh, thank you. I do try.
hi guys. i would quite like to make a mounted halfling of some sort but alot of our dunggeons are inside and i dont like the idea of having to lrave my poney behind as soon as we come to a steep climb or something. are there any versatile mounts that can clmib and stuff i could consider? cheers
If climbing is your concern, I think in the Burnt Offerings module, the end opponent was riding a Giant Gecko . It can climb any surface without any problems, and was quite the nuisance if I remember correctly. I've never seen it as a mount option outside of that, but it was cool.
The best thing about a Gecko mount is that it is a predator. It is born to attack, to bite, so all you're really training it to do is to attack on command.
Also, can you imagine the awesomeness of the PCs, in the middle of a steep canyon guarding a merchant convoy, see some stones fall down the cliff-side, look up and see sun-browned Goblins mounted on the back of giant versions of these, strapped to the back of the giant geckos and about ready to unleash a volley of cactus-spine-tipped arrows into the convoy?
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If climbing is your concern, I think in the Burnt Offerings module, the end opponent was riding a Giant Gecko . It can climb any surface without any problems, and was quite the nuisance if I remember correctly. I've never seen it as a mount option outside of that, but it was cool.
I hit my party with a goblin cavalier mounted on one of these and it was pretty devastating. I allowed him to charge the party upside down on ceilings if he made a good ride check, which meant he nearly always had a clear path to whoever he wanted. Even that aside, being able to ride in almost any terrain, including swamp, or even up the side of a cliff is pretty powerful, something no cat or dog can really do. If your DM allows this, I definitely recommend it.