A player in my Kingmaker game is running a mounted barbarian, and his standard warhorse is starting to get to be a greater hindrance than a boon; he's going for the alternate feature in the APG that allows for a mount animal companion, but he doesn't like the horse. He found the 3.x Drakkensteed (from Dragon Magic), and asked that I update it. They'd be a reasonable fit for the Greenbelt, ecologically, and he was talking about making Drakkensteeds the state animal or heraldic symbol or something. All in all, very fitting, so I agreed.
Monster stat conversion was easy. What I'm most concerned about is the Animal Companion block, below; how does it look? Is it balanced?
Starting Statistics: Size Large; Speed 50 ft., fly 60 ft. (poor); AC +4 natural armor; Attack bite (1d8); Ability Scores Str 17, Dex 12, Con 15, Int 2, Wis 13, Cha 10; Special Qualities combat trained, dragonblood, lowlight vision, weak flier.
7th-Level Advancement: AC +3 natural armor; Attack bite (2d6); Ability Scores Str +2, Dex +2, Con +2; Special Qualities trample (1d8), lose weak flier.
Dragonblood (Ex) For the purposes of effects related to type, a Drakkensteed counts as a dragon.
Weak Flier (Ex) Lesser drakkensteed cannot fly while mounted.
Thanks!
