Well done; there's a shortage of battle-cat riding in D&D!
That was what my childhood D&D (a BX/BECMI/AD&D hybrid, emphasis on BECM) was -- everyone traipsing around with a menagerie* of pet dragons, blink dogs, displacer beasts, unicorns, hypogriph, griffons, pegasi, and any other creatures we could convince the DM could be tamed/coerced into joining the gang (oh, and sometimes some horses and human followers too).Well done; there's a shortage of battle-cat riding in D&D!
He's a tiger, not a lion, but it suddenly occurs to me that he's basically the cowardly lion from Wizard of Oz -- turns into a hero with the addition of some c-c-c-courage!most cats except for Cringer