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I was wondering if anyone knew how to handle the capture or purchase and use of an exotic mount without the Cohort, Animal Companion or improved familiar feats (A GM of mine recently allowed for improved familiar to be used for mounts)?
I haven't seen anything (yet) for Pathfinder on this, and even D&D 3.5 is a little less than descriptive on this.
My thoughts are to the following animals:
Dire Animals
Magical Beasts
ANimals specific to areas (Underground, Arctic, etc)
There is a start. Fire away!!
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Check out the handle animal skill on pages 97-98 of the Core Rulebook.
Rear a wild animal:
You must have ranks in handle animal to teach, rear, or train animals.
DC to rear a wild animal: 15 + HD of animal
Once domesticated (or during rearing), you can train it tricks or for general purposes:
combat: DC 20
riding: DC 15
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To capture - same way you would anything.
wild empathy class feature (druid/ranger)
attacking w/ nonlethal
speaking to/diplomacy with magical beasts
trapping (survival skill?)
My thoughts on exotic/unusual mounts is that whether these are allowed really depends on where you fall on the realism/coolness spectrum. It's certainly cool to think of riding a sabretooth tiger into combat, or a polar bear, or a triceratops. And, hey, this is a fantasy game with magic and dragons and all, so why not if it's fun and doesn't get too cheesy/gamebreakingly unbalanced?
In real life, of course, there are reasons (physiological reasons, trainability reasons and temperament reasons) why only a handful of animals have ever been domesticated for riding. If this kind of thing matters to you in a game, then don't do it.
But it is fantasy, so even though you tell your 60 lb. child he can't ride the family Rottweiler on pain of whatever your punishment of choice is, in PF that 60 lb. halfling can do it, so that should tell you a little bit about where the designers stand on the coolness/realism spectrum.
true, your child shouldn't ride the family rotty. however, the riding dog you are eluding to is a specially bred (wether magically, or mundane) dog designed to carry a load (or halfling) on its back.
there are plenty of animals/beasts/magical creatures that one can tame or buy to ride in pathfinder.
just take a look through the beastiary. there are plenty from horses to griffons to dragons if you are really adventurous. you can also look at adding templates to exsisting mounts. a celestial horse is actually pretty awesome.
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Check out the handle animal skill on pages 97-98 of the Core Rulebook.
Rear a wild animal:
You must have ranks in handle animal to teach, rear, or train animals.
DC to rear a wild animal: 15 + HD of animal
Once domesticated (or during rearing), you can train it tricks or for general purposes:
combat: DC 20
riding: DC 15[EDIT]
To capture - same way you would anything.wild empathy class feature (druid/ranger)
attacking w/ nonlethal
speaking to/diplomacy with magical beasts
trapping (survival skill?)
I actually thought about this, but my GM ruled I wouldn't have time to train one, so I was going to try to buy one. Cool idea though!
The exotic magical beast mounts such as Griffons and Pegasi have costs in the bestiary for eggs and young. There's nothing specifically for a full-grown, fully trained one, but you might be able to extrapolate from there. Bears, tyrannosauruses, or dire bats... that's even less explicit. It's a problem with the game ever since the olden days. It'd certainly be nice to have a rough price, but it comes down to the DM's fiat, unfortunately...
If you allow 3.x stuff the Arms and Equipment Guide had pricing for some special mounts.
I think Draconomicon had pricing for a Drakkensteed (dragon horse) too.