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We're gearing up to play some Pathfinder Society and one of my players created a goblin ranger with an animal companion. I remembered the Rough Rider fear for goblins and pitched it to my player, who loved the idea of riding his wolf animal companion.
Then I ran into a problem... Rough Rider says he can choose a wolf as an animal companion and gives bonuses if used as a mount. However, according to the animal companion rules, to ride an animal companion, the mount must be one size larger than the character. Goblins and wolves are both small, so he can't ride a wolf.
My player was really stoked to ride his wolf animal companion but the rules don't seem to allow it. Am I missing something? Is there a way to allow this without breaking rules?
I want to stick to RAW since we will be playing Pathfinder Society, no house rules.
Your thoughts?
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That's not how reskinning works.
Reskinning is saying that your "wolf" is an uncharacteristic color, or has 9 tails, or is a rare species, or is a genetically superior cloned amalgamation of every famous wolf that ever lived.
But it still needs to be recognizable as a wolf, in-character, with NPCs reacting to it as a wolf accordingly.
I believe the original reskinning kerfuffle was someone trying to say that their wolf was actually an adorable pig and shouldn't be reacted to as a predatory canine.
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That's not how reskinning works.
Reskinning is saying that your "wolf" is an uncharacteristic color, or has 9 tails, or is a rare species, or is a genetically superior cloned amalgamation of every famous wolf that ever lived.
But it still needs to be recognizable as a wolf, in-character, with NPCs reacting to it as a wolf accordingly.
I believe the original reskinning kerfuffle was someone trying to say that their wolf was actually an adorable pig and shouldn't be reacted to as a predatory canine.
My memory is that the original person just wanted to ride a pig, no mechanical benefits whatsoever (goblins would still hate it, etc).
Even in PFS many GMs won't care if you reflavour a horse to a wolf as long as there are absolutely ZERO mechanical changes.
And if your GM objects, the fallback (and clearly totally legal) position is that your character is a little touched in the head. They're riding a horse but completely believes (or claims to) that it is a wolf
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That's not how reskinning works.
Reskinning is saying that your "wolf" is an uncharacteristic color, or has 9 tails, or is a rare species, or is a genetically superior cloned amalgamation of every famous wolf that ever lived.
But it still needs to be recognizable as a wolf, in-character, with NPCs reacting to it as a wolf accordingly.
I believe the original reskinning kerfuffle was someone trying to say that their wolf was actually an adorable pig and shouldn't be reacted to as a predatory canine.
My memory is that the original person just wanted to ride a pig, no mechanical benefits whatsoever (goblins would still hate it, etc).
No, the original argument started because they asserted that the gobins in the scenario *shouldn't* hate his wolf, because it was, in fact, a pig.
Honestly, with as many opportunities as there are now in PF2, I would say that being fundamentally confused as to the species of your mount, down to feeding it a different ration type, would be a disqualifying permanent condition.
Having to wait a few levels to get the character concept you want is not a justification for making your character fundamentally mentally deficient.
It would be like me asserting that my wizard believes his produce flame cantrip produces 20 foot explosions, because my character concept is "can throw fireballs."
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I believe the original reskinning kerfuffle was someone trying to say that their wolf was actually an adorable pig and shouldn't be reacted to as a predatory canine.
It was a dog reskinned as a pig, in a scenario with violent goblin allies, and a specific warning from the VC to not bring dogs or horses.
In case anybody wants to read a nearly 10 yr old thread on the subject...
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Thanks. Every time the topic comes up I have that debate with myself to either spend time digging for the original story or paraphrase the overall gist of it.
A Goblin riding a wolf is something I've been thinking of for a while now, too. I'm glad someone mentioned Cavalier. I think that would work nicely for me.
