I played a wizard once who got a wand of summon monster 1 or something, and I used it to summon a pony which I named Squirtle. So, in order to get through a room full of traps, I kept casting the wand over and over, sending dozens of ponies running into the chamber to be exploded, liquefied, and hacked to pieces by various deadly traps, all the while shouting "Squirtle, I choose you" over and over again.
Have you ever had a cool mount?
The only book that was out back then was the PHB, so we didn't have that.
Played an Eberron game with a Talenta Halfling. My clawfoot (velociraptor) mount was named Clever Girl and I used a lot of my spells to buff her so she was insanely fast, could jump crazy distances, and get annoyingly high bonuses to tracking.
Once we set our sights on an enemy, they were not getting away short of a readied long range teleportation spell.
Our party's mute oracle liberated a Roc during our travels. I'm sure he had a proper name for it, which we ignored (as we often did, because he couldn't say otherwise) and named The Wind. Ours was an island hopping game, and we would go to wherever The Wind may take us.
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The Poles already did it, user.
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