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

Richards

Legend
Mine aren't race-wide, but I've had two separate undead war mounts in one campaign: one group of sahuagin spellcasters rode around on a Gargantuan undead crab (complete with howdah-tower, from which they blasted enemies with wands), and I once had a gnome lich ride around on a zombie dragon turtle that "flew" through the Negative Material Plane.

Johnathan
 

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Warforged ride autohorses.

Centaurs would occasionally ride elephants or mammoths, but more to show off than any practical purpose.

I tend to out dragonborn or a variety of dinosaurs myself.
 




Casimir Liber

Adventurer
While straight giant horsefly mounts are pretty fantastic, having PCs hear about the giant horsefly riding duergar and then finding when they actually encounter them that they are hippocampi style half horse monsters could be fun too (horsefly wings, eyes, and mandibles would work for a Baalzebulian themed pegasus).
Oh wow...this is cooler. i was just beginnng a statblock on a straight-up horsefly but this could be really fun...
 


Vaalingrade

Legend
I don't have cultures separated by race that much except some halflings, dwarves and the campaign-specific hailene, but I am a huge fan of riding weird things.

Common mounts in the world include gatornis (think moas), utahraptors (called equiraptors because there's no Utah), and giant spiders.

The spiders have given rise to another mount, the fearbred horse, who are raised under giant spider cages so their entire existence is terror and they break, no longer capable of feeling fear at all.

The bigger folks like ogre, trolls and minotaurs tool around on ceratopsians, ankylosaurs and t-rexes.

In the jungles, giant bats are the choice, and in the cold, huge land seals called couaga are thenew hotness.

Of course this is a world with 1860's level tech, so there are also bikes, velocipedes, autocarriages and limited train service are also on the table.
 



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