Hello guys, I made an account here just to post this question.
A friend of mine may be doing a pathfinder game soon, and I rather enjoy the idea of making an orc ranger who rides a wolf.
However, this seems like a very annoying thing to get to, especially since I'd prefer a worg (They're a pretty big improvement and just way cooler than wolves.) My original plan was to simply have a wolf and take Beast Rider, only to find out that beast rider doesn't help me out in this situation, except in the scenario I'll bring up later.
However, while Orc Worgriders exist it seems as though you can never as a PC orc ride a worg even with Monstrous Mounts, as they're a medium companion made for goblins and other small races.
So, first off, is it possible to get a worg as a mount, as an orc ranger?
I'm fairly certain it's not, despite there being orc worg riders. Sad.
So, next, since that's probably impossible, is what is the best way to ride a wolf? From what I've gathered there's two ways:
One: Go ranger up until level 8, somewhere along the line take the "beast rider" feat, "treat your effective druid level as if it were two levels higher" thus making your wolf level 7 and becoming Large.
Two: Take a level in Cavalier and select a Wolfhound mount.
Are there any easier ways? A friend of mine insists I can get a Dire Wolf in place of a regular one, but I see nothing stating that that is a choice.
I'd love to know your thoughts on this matter, and I might be completely bonkers and 100% wrong on everything I've said, I'm still a bit of a newbie. Thanks for reading.
Edit:I've derped up on my way #1, Beast rider only applies to the selected creature type (The dinosaurs), so that bit is pretty much negated.
Worg is an option for Leadership, if I recall correctly.
For option one, you can take the boon companion feat to be able to ride your wolf companion at 7.
Option two really isnt an option. A wolfhound, which is third party and not allowed in most games but assume you had it approved, is not on the rangers list of ACs and would not be advanced by your ranger levels. You can still ride it, but it would remain a 2hd creature and become incredibly fragile. Classes only stack for animal companions if the companion is on both lists.
Just a note, you can skin your wolf companions to be a worg, it just has the same stats as a wolf companion. There is no dire wolf companion, again it would just be a reskinned wolf.
That is a nifty feat. I really do need to verse myself better in those. But there's so many.
Yes it can be 'reskinned', with the stats of a regular wolf but personality of a worg, but the GM that I would like to do this with is a newbie and I'd like to be as 100% on the rules without any GM allowances as possible.
I guess I really hadn't thought #2 through very well.
Worg is an option for Leadership, if I recall correctly.
Yes, it is, but how does this tie in with mounts/animal companions?
Get one as a cohort and ride it. See if your GM will allow it to take a class in, say, fighter.
Ask your party nicely to make sure they get the spell "Animal Growth" as soon as they can. Boom, your medium animal companion is now large.