Allowing halflings to use medium mounts

[Breschau of Livonia]

I've been working on converting an old Eberron campaign from 3.5 to 4e. One thing I'm running into is the rule of requiring mounts to be large size - one of the PCs is a halfling who rides a clawfoot dinosaur which is medium size. The size works well for the character, allowing the dinosaur to come into the dungeon with him - we'll be rebuildiing the character as a beastmaster ranger and treating the clawfoot as a great cat as far as stats go.

I'm leaning towards just saying small creatures can ride medium mounts - I don't think the game will explode as a result but I'm curious if anyone else has tried this and run into any problems as a result.

 

[cmbarona]

I think it should work well; especially since it allows riding dwarves to get around those troublesome encumbrance limitations.

 

[Starfox]

The size works well for the character, allowing the dinosaur to come into the dungeon with him.

I think this is precisely the reason why its not allowed. Too big an advantage to being Small. Not saying I'd have a problem with it personally, and it might work, but mounts are clearly not intended to be practical and of usie in dungeons.

 

[Breschau of Livonia]

What I might end up doing is allowing it to be used as a mount in places where there would be room for a large mount - in other words, it functions as a companion while indoors but there's not really enough room in most dungeons to use it as an effective mount.

 

[scarik]

What I might end up doing is allowing it to be used as a mount in places where there would be room for a large mount - in other words, it functions as a companion while indoors but there's not really enough room in most dungeons to use it as an effective mount.

That's an excellent idea, I heartily approve.

 

[Rabbage]

I have been discussing this with my party actually since martial power came out. A player is wanting to make a halfling beast master ranger and really wants to be able to ride on his mount. I have no problem with it and I think it adds some flavor. I think the idea with mounts indoors a no no but outside totally sounds like its a fair deal. Any problems that could arise from this?