Hello,
I am working on my first character for 2nd edition organized play. It is a goblin Champion. Upon looking at the possible divine ally you can get at level 3, I was wanting to use a goblin dog. The RAW says that it is typically a creature with the mount special ability such as a horse. I see the horse rules with that ability in the PHB, but the horse description in the bestiary doesn't have this ability, and neither does the goblin dog in the bestiary. Is there somewhere that has better defined rules for a mount for a small character? A horse seems silly for a small goblin, and I can't seem to find anything other RAW friendly options.
Thanks in advance.
But I want a stinky dog to bite all the evil dumb longshanks!
Have a look at the Rough Rider Goblin ability
You....you are my savior. I do not know how i missed you could use this for champions when i read it.
Its not a goblin dog...but a hell of a lot better than a horse
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What's still weird with Rough Rider in RAW is that since it doesn't grant your animal companion the Mount ability, you still can't ride it until it becomes Mature when you take the level 6 feat because without Mount the size restriction would interfere. Taking Rough Rider only really helps you by giving you the Ride feat that winds up being extremely niche if your long-term mount plan is to use an animal companion, in which case there's no need to make any checks ever to command the animal. Actual wolves and goblin dogs don't have anything listed for purchase price or anything that says they are combat trained, so they kinda suck as mounts if you want to ride a non-companion version. Even the animal companion version of a wolf/dog can't move you and support you in the same turn even once it's big enough that you can ride it, because that's restricted to "mount" only (so just horses for now).
Which all seems very counter-intuitive to me since the feat specifically calls out goblin dog and wolf mounts as animal companions that you then can't actually mount, and once you can mount them they're still gimped mounts for lacking the actual mount ability regardless of how common it would be for a goblin to use a wolf or dog mount. The Champion feat to get an animal companion just says that you usually get one with mount but you could get something else in line with your deity or other circumstances instead, so there doesn't seem like there's any point to calling that out in the Rough Rider text at all. Any small size Champion at level 6 could use a mature wolf animal companion as a mount so that part of the Rough Rider feat never actually does anything at all. I mean, unless you had a GM that wanted to argue that, say, a goblin devoted to Calistria has to ride a horse rather than something 1000x more fitting like a Goblin Dog.
