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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Syrsuro" data-source="post: 4451037" data-attributes="member: 58162">You're right.  I hadn't put two and two together yet to arrive at four.  Ok, now I will consider crossing over from 'ruling' to 'house rule' and rule that rage drakes have a higher carry capacity than a horse.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  It's not final yet, I have to look over the other mounts first and see what they look ike.  But I still like Rage Drakes (or some kind of drake) as the typical dragonborn mount. I don't object to house rules - in fact I think they are what make the game work as the official rules tend to be generic and devoid of flavor. But they sure as heck ain't gonna carry 720#s.   And I hold to my original position which is that horses, due to their anatomy and physiology (especially the spindly legs) ought to be on the low end as far as what they can carry for their strength and can't carry Dragonborn. A rule that raises the carry weight of a Rage Drake but leaves that of a horse the same fits the twin requirements I like in a house rule: It passes the 'reasonableness' check - it fits with the players expectations of what is possible based on their real-world own experience AND (more importantly imho) it is cool.  Dragonborn, as massive creatures in their own right, eschewing the puny horses humans ride for massive reptilian creatures is just cool (imho, of course).  Removing the restriction on horses just changes the rules in a way that  makes horses into an even more generic mount without adding any 'cool' (imho).  So I don't see it as gaining anything to make it worth making the change, imho. Its just more fun, again - imho - to play in a world where there the differences between the races amount to more than just a word on a sheet and few racial abilities.Carl</blockquote>

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