alternate paladin mounts...need help..please

[Crothian]

Well, that is debatable.

Unlike the familiar, which gives an improvement to natural armor, mounts get a bonus, which as usual do not stack with existing bonuses.

So by the (written) rules, and from the only example of such in the DotF, then no, the natural armor bonus a mount recieves does not stack with existing natural armor bonuses.

It's been clarified (somewhere) that they do stack.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

It's been clarified (somewhere) that they do stack.

Because, if they didn't, what would be the point of including it in the paladin mount progression table?

 

[chip079]

well goin back to the natural aromor bonus. it is an unamed bonus. and by rule unamed bonuses stackwith all other bonuses, even other unamed ones. so i dont see why the bonus would not stack. also take into account that the default mount of a medium size paladin, is a large warhorse. a large warhorse comes equiped with a 4 natural armor ( found in MM), so why would they include a bonus, if the default mount already has one. the paladins mount is supposed to be a superior representive of its type.

 

[AGGEMAM]

It's been clarified (somewhere) that they do stack.

Yes, in a e-mail response from the Sage which is 18 months old, and did not make it to the FAQ. Strange.

As always I ignore email responses from the Sage especially those that go against what is actually written in the book.

 

[AGGEMAM]

well goin back to the natural aromor bonus. it is an unamed bonus.

Last time I checked a natural armor bonus was a natural armor bonus but if the rules changed overnight please let me know.

 

[AGGEMAM]

Because, if they didn't, what would be the point of including it in the paladin mount progression table?

It is written nowhere that a paladins mount actually has to be a creature with a natural armor bonus rating at all.

A natural armor improvement like that of a familiar improves the natural armor rating of the creature, however if the creature did not have a natural armor rating to begin with an improvement would not help you at all. A natural armor bonus does exactly that.

 

[Wolf72]

I like the idea of giant stag beetle ...

also check out claudios site, he has a gnome paladin mounted on a dire badger ... in his wallpaper section.