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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 2869288" data-attributes="member: 1465">Two notes here:- having a mount/animal companion/familiar is a burden and an advantage at the same time; if a player wants one, he should be prepared to (1) know the rules about how to use it and (2) expect some minimal realism (an animal isn't going to behave as a human, unless it has an extraordinary intelligence); many times players assume that just because they have the rights of getting an animal as a class feature, it should work in every environment and it should behave exactly as their character- sometimes a mount (or a cohort/henchmen, or any NPC) is indeed subject to the DM's "first shot"; it may not be nice nor realistic, but it's what happens in movie all the time: the movie shows you how powerful the BBEG is by chopping someone's head off with one blow, only that the head is of always that of someone unimportant, because if it was that of the main character, the movie would be over. It's definitely not nice if a DM nullifies mounts & companions too often with this tactic, but as long as it happens quite rarely, it's still better to end up as a Paladin with a dead mount rather than a mount with a dead Paladin...I basically agree that the DM should not go too far with this. Every shopkeeper being an ex-hero makes ex-heroes terribly boring. Interesting people should be a minority to be really interesting. However, let's also keep in mind that the focus of the game is on interesting characters! Perhaps the PCs meet mostly interesting NPCs just because it is not told when they meet commoners. Again, think books and movies, they don't tell every person which is met by the characters, only those who are relevant in the story or who makes an entertaining scene.Totally agree. Once the general game type is set (epic, grim, naive, humoristic...) names are one of the best thing to keep the mood intact.Fortunately, I don't remember to have any sex mentioned at all in our stories. It could fit, but it takes intelligence and sensibility not to make it just a laugh. Most of the time it's as unnecessary and out-of-place as a dog in a church.This is not a simple issue. The important thing is that such a choice is done consciously of its consequences. The standard game is written with strong assumptions about the equipment, but it is not forbidden to change how this works, if the group wants a different setting than the standard.</blockquote>

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