I'm looking for a mount/Animal to give my players as a reward, to pull their carriage.
I'm looking for something other than a horse only because the person giving them the mounts is a powerful (Not)Strahd vampire lord, and they can get a horse from anyone, this guys a powerful lord.
got any ideas?
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i don't play D&D but is there anything cool in there that people use?
Dire Sloth.
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A young black dragon who spends his downtime shapeshifted as an elf-looking emo kid with huge obvious wings and tail, seduces all women in sight and has no regard for public decency laws.
A self-assembling and disassembling skeletal destrider that can be kept in a box for ease of storage. Reassembling takes a while and goes wrong 75% of the time. It's also spectacularly difficult to put reins or a saddle on a horse with no flesh, and spurs and whips do nothing.
A blindfolded drider that is too socially awkward to refuse orders or ask what is going on.
A pair of coconuts that summon a nightmare when knocked together. The nightmare is neither bound to obey the summoner, or friendly. It's always the same nightmare and it really holds grudges.
A fearsome zombie dinosaur. It is shrunk to the size of a toy and has to be inflated before it can be used. It does not come with a pump.
A beautiful, intelligent and kind pegasus made of glass and starlight. It's tears heal injuries, and its voice soothes grief. Everyone who knows you're its owner will become completely persuaded you're a huge tool.
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Stupid rat-creatures
Not really that interesting, but my character rides a camel despite not being in the desert.
Half-dragon dire wolves.
>A pair of coconuts that summon a nightmare when knocked together.
You have to keep knocking the coconuts to make the nightmare ride, one knock for every step.
Giant Goats are pure style, climbing mountains and shit.
Giant Slugs. They can fire a Love Dart once every X days at great range, for decent damage. Got this idea here at Veeky Forums.
Something intelligent and angry that can tell other peoples' drivers to fuck off as it cuts them off.
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made from the last guy the lord gave a steed to.
Have you considered... camel??
Depends on what you're looking for and how powerful, there are lots of neat options.
Ethereal marauders and phase spiders for ambush, rust monsters, manticores, grey renders, bulettes, yrthaks, basilisks, winter wolfs, gorgons, howlers, razor boars, behirs, any normal animal or insect but bigger/dire.
really the only requirements be
1. not horse
2. tameable
have fun with it
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GIANT SEMI-TERRESTRIAL SEA SLUGS WITH OGRE-LEVEL INTELLIGENCE THAT ARE QUICK TO ANGER, QUICKER TO FORGIVE
They subsist off of beer and other alcohols, and reproduce by budding. However, their young must be put in a mountain, where they spend a century eating through all the ores in the mountain's crust in order to develop their tough outer coverings, before they emerge, migrate to coastal regions, and shift to their adult diet of alcohols
They are mildly corrosive, but anything short of extended contact will have no effect. Just rinse off every night, after a day of riding.
So, what kind of fucked up do you want the vampire lord to get up to?
Would he have a carriage pulled by a train of ghouls, all clambering and jibbering as they try to get their hands on a bloody hunk of raw flesh?
Would he tame fell dungeon creatures to do his bidding? Something like a carrion crawler would be traditional if he wasn't giving out something terribly deadly, or a gorgon or a basilisk if he wanted to be a dickbag. What does he care? He's immune.
Is he the kind to favor style over substance? Nothing is classier than having your carriage pulled by the animal on your livery, unless it is being pulled by the animals used as supporters for your heraldic shield.
Is he just a nightmare horrorshow of an asshole? Then bats so big they have to crawl are about as terrible and fucked up as you can get. Just use the stats for a bear or something.
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thats metal
Like 10 wargs, make a monstrous dog sled
That's actually pretty kickass
Well, again, it depends on what you're looking for.
Like you want to give the player something interesting but you should consider what they want and what would be a useful compliment to their abilities or the abilities of the party in general.
Do you want something that can fly? Something with a breath weapon or other ranged attack? Something that can act as another martial combatant? Something with a unique ability like invisibility or ethereal jaunts or rust attacks?
Consider your campaign and the challenges you want to present.
Various zombie / skeleton creatures. Rune-bound zombies or constructs? Example- a giant spider corpse has been gutted its carapace covered in necromantic runes to increase its power and animated. The insides filled with twisted soulstuff to empower the necromantic creature
Or since you said it was to pull the carriage, perhaps animating the carriage.
Since its a vampire doing the enchanting how about fusing the carriage w whatever creatures/ corpses are about creating some form of unliving beast w a carriage compartment within.
thats pretty neat
Mah man
My setting has Dire Goats, and the gang love them. They are even raising a herd of Dire Goats right now, and planning on bringing them to the king to replace Horse Cavalry in their war with the Evil Mountain Country
Stop posting Bauchelain, you're drunk.
And tell Korbal Broach to stop acting so bald.
An animated skull that can be mounted onto any beheaded corpse, taking it over, but it can only use physical attacks and has the same small healthpool before the corpse falls apart and it becomes just a skull again.
A Tileopon or Tileoponess.
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...a what now?
A mimic, the perfect mount really.
Or a Rust Monster
You're missing an opitunity to give them a dire goose as a draft animal.
Think of the carnage it would inflict if someone tried to steal their supplies!
>That pic
>Thinks it would be romantic for a handsome golden-maned knight to straddle her
>Ends up pulling a cart
A what? Pics or link please
A sentient boulder.
Im impressed it took that long for a monstergirl suggestion. Kudos Veeky Forums
The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!
Just have it be a couple of draught horses. And by that i mean horses made from beer.
A tamed ogre.
Dire tortoise.
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Rams are top tier
A bull shapped Golem
>a brazen bull golem