Rate my Pegasus Mount

[Wakrob]

I am in a campaign that has an elite group of Paladins that ride Pegasus (The Pegasati). I am one such Paladin, but there are no real rules for this. The GM left it up to me to development my own mount.

Here is what I did and the result. Let me know what you think.

I am lvl 10. A Horse has CR2 and Pegasus with Mighty Stallion Blood has CR4. So I took the difference of lvl 2 and lvl 10 on the Druid Companion chart (3-8) to determine what I added to the stats.

Angelfire
Str Dex Con Int Wis Cha
18 15 16 10 13 13
+4 +4 +4 +4 +4 +4 Advanced Template (Heroic Blood)
+3 +3 Companion Chart
+2 +2 Lvl 4 Companion Str Con bonus
+1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 Lvl 9 Ability Score Increase

28 22 24 15 18 17
+9 +6 +7 +2 +4 +3 Final Stat bonus

Feats (in this case a Horse and Pegasus both start with 2 feats so I took the full extra 5 for a lvl 10 Companion)
Fly-by Attack, Iron Will, Evasion, Armor Prof Light/Medium, Power Attack, Imp Bull Rush, Awesome Blow.
Link, Shared Spells, Devotion.

HP 10d10+70 (170hps, we get max HPs in our campaign)

Init +6 Perc +14 Dark 60' Low-Light, Detect Good/Evil, Scent, Sense Motive +10
AC 30 (Original 14, +6 Mithril Chainshirt Barding, +4 more Dex, +6 Natural bonus)
Touch 15 Flat 24 Fort +14 Ref +13 Will +9 (+4 Poison, Imm Petrify, +4 Enchantment, Fire Resist 10, +Cha saves when ridden)
Speed 60 Fly 120 (Perfect) Fly +23 (+8 Perfect, +6 Skills, +4 more Dex)

Bite +16/d3+9 Hooves x2 +14/d6+7 Multi-attack
CMB +18 CMD 34 (+4 Trip, +2 Bull Rush)

Let me know if you see anything I could have done better or cheated on.

Thanks
Aequitas of Wend (Lvl 10 Paladin)

[Vamptastic]

No spinners, or hydraulics? I rate this ride whack, homeslice!

Kidding. That is a rather intelligent horse.

[Wakrob]

I see under Magical Beasts that they get +1 BAB per HD as a standard. If I use this over what the Animal Companion Chart gives Id come out ahead +2 BAB. Not sure I should do this though.

[RuyanVe]

Greetings, fellow traveller.

What you're trying to do is emulating an animal companion. Therefore, I'd rather stick with the rules established for these mechanics:

The Bestiary is nice and shiny but when it comes to AC has not much relevance; note: an AC is not an animal but its own type, stats as given in the Bestiary do not matter, an AC has no feats in the beginning, it gets a fixed number of skill points etc.

E. g. a typical Bestiary Heavy Warhorse (horse with Advanced Simple Template):
Str 16+4, Dex 14+4, Con 17+4, Int 2, Wis 13+4, Cha 7+4; +2 NA;

Whereas the AC "Horse" starting stat array looks like this:
Str 16, Dex 13, Con 15, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 6; +4 NA (and other stuff clearly defined by the Animal Choices list given under Druid class entry).

See the discrepancy?
The list given under the druid class entry provides bonuses to the AC which will make it gradually stronger then the comparable standard Bestiary entry - it scales with your level.

TL;DR?
I think your Pegasus is way overpowered. It will overshadow you in almost all combat aspects (minus your healing and saves maybe).

A good reference might be the blog entry by JJ a while back found here.
It describes a Hippogriff as AC for a special type of ranger - might go from there and apply a similar starting array of stats and capabilities and then go strictly by the list for AC progression.

Ruyan.

[The black raven]

I did something similar to what Ruyanve suggest when statting my Griffon AC.

I put the result here. Maybe it can help you ;-)

BTW : I also feel that your Pegasus is far too powerful for an AC (it is the template that mostly throws things off). And I am not sure you calculations are correct.

Your Paladin should definitely take the Shining Knight archetype. And the Bodyguard archetype for your Animal Companion (from Animal Archive) is great for a Mount. Check Animal Archive for other feats or items you might like.