Hey guys, a friend of mine showed this to me, and though I love the idea behind it, I know it's not really worth taking, but I like the whole shooting arrows from the sky and being allied to a gryphon.
What are your guys thoughts on this?
If you can, buy a flying mount instead. There's a second feat required even to be able to ride the griffon, and it's limited to half speed when doing so for some reason. Bypass the feats and avoid the problems.
Despite the name it's much better for a non-mounted character's animal companion. The griffon is pretty strong, better than the most powerful standard animal companion, certainly better than the next best flying one (the roc). Think of it as a way to get access to a beefed up big cat for people with limited access otherwise.
But even if you want to go mounted, it's not a loss to trade a feat for a better companion. The second feat is probably only worth it, if you have no other way of flight (highly unlikely).
One more thing: Both the Griffon and the Worg have more than 3 Int. This saves you from having to invest the first ability increase on Int if you want that.
And a question: I read the Worg's Mastery ability as causing shaken, but making targets already shaken frightened. There might be potential with e.g. a Cockatrice Cavalier here.
Instead take leadership and use it to get a Gryphon/Hippogryph and ride it.
If there was to use this feat with the Mammoth Rider prestige class, I would jump on it.
There is no reason you can't, the feat allows the classes access to the animal companions, therefore trumps the mammoth rider's specifics.
Instead take leadership and use it to get a Gryphon/Hippogryph and ride it.
The advantage to the Monstrous Mount feat is that it is much easier to advance a mount via the standard animal companion rules then it is to give class levels to a monstrous creature.
Plus, you could have a mount AND a cohort at the same time if you wanted to!
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I'm amazed because no one opened a "create a mount" thread yet. ;)