D&D General War Mounts for the Different Fantasy Races/Monsters

[Weiley31]

Cant' forget one of the greatest fantasy mounts: Yakul the Red Elk!

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That's no ordinary mount, that is a Mount PC.

 

[bedir than]

My next Goliath is going to ride an Ankylosaurus

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Yeah, it's like humans riding gorillas.

Yeah? If they made good mounts and were tameable, and not likely to rip our arms off if mildly mistreated or just caught on a bad day, we would ride them.

 

[Bolares]

Lightfoot Halflings on Giant Bees, Stout Halflings on Giant Weasels

I liked 3.5's standard of halflings mounting on dogs (and the obvious clawfoot dinosaurs)

 

[Bolares]

Your list is pretty comprehensive and I don't use that many humanoids (monstrous or otherwise) running around

• Goblins on worgs of course, just for tradition.
• Gnolls ride giant hyenas
• Hobgoblins ride axe beaks
• Frost giants ride wooly mammoths
• Dwarves frequently ride bears

Axe beaks should be the standard (and they should be called chocobos )

 

[doctorbadwolf]

My halflings ride goats, which are related to the giant goats ridden by some wood elves.

Other elves ride horses, especially in the continent that contains the colonial era Spain and France analogous nations.

The Grung ride giant frogs and giant lizards of various kinds.

The Gnomes of one nation that is very advanced in magitech ride living construct animals of various kinds, including birds. These are grown in artificial eggs in chambers that funnel ambient magic, life energy, emotions, and such, from the town above into the eggs, until enough power and thought and spirit has been absorbed that an eggs starts to pulse with light, at which point it is possible to bond with the creature before it hatches.

 

[Faolyn]

Yeah? If they made good mounts and were tameable, and not likely to rip our arms off if mildly mistreated or just caught on a bad day, we would ride them.

TBH, they don't really have the right build, stance, or locomotion style to make good mounts. (Or mentality.)

 

[doctorbadwolf]

TBH, they don't really have the right build, stance, or locomotion style to make good mounts. (Or mentality.)

That was....part of my point.

 

[Faolyn]

That was....part of my point.

Whoops, sorry.

 

[smetzger]

githyanki - red dragons