D&D 5E WotC Ranger: Drakewarden released at D&D Celebration
overgeeked
B/X Known World
It grows to medium-sized at 7th level...which is also when it gains flying speed.
Small characters can ride medium-sized mounts.
"Carrying Capacity. Your carrying capacity is your Strength score multiplied by 15 . This is the weight (in pounds) that you can carry..."
The drake has STR 16, which is 240 pounds carrying capacity. Halflings and gnomes weigh between 37 and 43 pounds. So it's clearly strong enough to carry a small character.
There's no reason a small character couldn't ride this medium-sized creature with flight...except that this ability is badly written. They can literally ride any other medium-sized flying creature that can support their weight from 1st level...but not their personal drake mount...until 15th.
Levistus's_Leviathan
5e Freelancer
Then use Enlarge/Reduce on yourself to shrink yourself to Tiny, so then you can mount on the Small Drake at level 5!
bedir than
Full Moon Storyteller
They needed a solve for this that is similar to Beast of Burden and Long Limbed.
overgeeked
B/X Known World
Yeah. Something. It's so weird. They just put out a second PC race that can fly from 1st level...and they need to make sure the drake can't carry you and fly until 15th...even for small characters. So weird.
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
I genuinely don’t get why the design is so timid with the size and with flight.
Just let me ride a dragon as my actual character concept, or don’t even put a “you get to ride a dragon” subclass in the game. Most campaigns won’t even see the levels where you can ride it in the air! Just give the drake (and pony, fwiw) Powerful Build, and get on.
Just let me ride a dragon as my actual character concept, or don’t even put a “you get to ride a dragon” subclass in the game. Most campaigns won’t even see the levels where you can ride it in the air! Just give the drake (and pony, fwiw) Powerful Build, and get on.
Levistus's_Leviathan
5e Freelancer
Yeah. I don't see any reason why flying and mounted is any more powerful than flying from your own wings.
WotC is weird with stuff like this. I want my Dragon Rider to be able to ride my dragon, and fly, as soon as physically possible! You picked this (sub)class for a reason! There's absolutely no reason to force players to go three-fourths of the campaign not being allowed to do the very thing they're known for!
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Seriously. They could allow riding in flight from level 3 and it wouldn’t be broken.
bedir than
Full Moon Storyteller
Also, having a Large companion kinda blows. Harmful n the dungeon and all the normal drawbacks outside.
Scribe
Legend
Exactly. I cant understand it.
