I have a player in my game who absolutely has to have a menagerie of animals around her hunter at all times and cannot live unless she can carry all the things.
She currently has a wolf animal companion and a mule (I am using 3.5 stats for the mule) she has purchased to haul her gear and loot around and at one time also had a war trained pony as well, but it was killed in battle and she has not been to an area where she can replace it yet.
She has decided to make a travois for the mule to allow it to haul even more things, but I can find no stats for anything like this in the Pathfinder materials I have access to or on a google search.
How would you stat out something like this?
I was thinking there should be a set weight limit that can be loaded onto it, perhaps 100 pounds. The weight of the gear loaded onto it would be only counted as half against the carrying capacity used up on the mule but the travois itself would slow the mule by 5 feat while equipped and by 10 feet if it was loaded with more than 50 pounds of weight.
I would love to hear other idea's though.
A travois is basically two poles that drag behind the animal and have a flexible platform hung between them to load stuff on.
So, start with two long poles and a way to attach them to each side of the animal, trailing behind them, straight back.
Then attach a blanket or an animal hide, or a net or something between them. Usually the edge of the blanket wrapped around each pole, and was sewn or tied to them.
You're right that they can't hold a lot of weight.
And they are awkward as heck to manage anywhere except open plains, because the dragging poles catch on vines and bushes and are the very devil to get up and down the banks of streams and ravines.
What stats to you need?
What stats to you need?
What in game effect would a travois have? If it were a piece of animal gear/equipment how would you stat it out? What would it do?
I already put my first idea in the first post but wanted to get feedback/idea's from others before I went with that since I have no real life experience with either beasts of burden or travois'.
I already knew what it was. I merely linked it to the Wikipedia page for those who may not.