Hippogryph-riding Ranger

[XanNelson]

I'm going to be running IG soon and my players are starting to scheme for their characters. I have one player who is aboslutely dead set on playing a hippogryph-riding bow ranger. Is there any outdoor combat in this campaign or is it, as I'm guessing, mostly inside ship corridors and caverns? Would she get any use out of a flying mount? Keep in mind that I rarely bother with random encounters as my players are far more interested in plot than in filler.

[Ascalaphus]

Roughly speaking:

Book 1 (levels 1-3) is 95% indoors.
Book 2 (levels 4-6) is about 50% indoors, including some of the decisive fights.
Book 3 (levels 7-9) are probably about 75% indoors, and most of the important action will be indoors.
Book 4 (levels 10-12) will be about 50% indoors, including the bosses
Book 5 (levels 13-14) will be about 80% indoors, including the bosses
Book 6 (levels 15-17) will be about 95% indoors

I don't think this is a great AP for a griffon rider. You'd probably get the most mileage out of that in Giantslayer; giants need more space and so does cavalry. Most monsters in this AP are medium with a dash of Large.

[XanNelson]

Perfect, that is exactly what I needed to know. I'll try to talk her out of it. Even if she insists, at least she will be forewarned enough to not have room to complain when she spends most of her time grounded.