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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Syrsuro" data-source="post: 4451357" data-attributes="member: 58162">Sure  - a magic item fix works as well.  Not as cool as a rage drake imho, but it definately works. Frankly - any solution that follows the maxim of Specific overrides General is will work.  In 3.5, the way to fix a problem was to change the underlying rules because the PCs, the monsters, everything was expected to follow the same set of rigid and unyielding rules.  Fortunately, in 4E that is no longer the case, and instead the general rules are there as a jumping off point - and no single creature is necessarily bound by them, but instead can have specific rules which apply to them according to whatever makes for a fun game.   Increase the carry weight of all quadrupeds?  Not a good idea (imho, of course) as it has global effects across the entire game and is thus 'overwhelming force' when applied to a very specific problem. Recognize that Dragonborn have problems riding a horse and increase the carry weight of a single mount type (either horse or rage drake) so that they can ride something? Much better, imho, as it applies a specific fix and doesn't change anything outside of what needs to be changed.  (The fact that I prefer a rage drake - and like the idea of rage drakes being associated with Dragonborn just as Dire Boars are associated with Dwarves - is less important than the fact that there is no reason to change anything beyond the carry capacity of a single type of mount to fix this problem.) Create a magic item  (or a feat or whatever) to get around the specific problem?  Another decent solution (although personally, I don't think inventing an item  is preferable to modifying a mount to fill the need because although it works for the PC, it doesn't really address the question of what all the other Dragonborn ride in their native lands unless this saddle is commonplace.   What doesn't work, imho, is a fix that ignores that maxim and instead takes the approach of using the sledgehammer of instituting a global fix (like increasing the carry weight formula for all quadrupeds) to solve a narrowly focused problem.  Carl</blockquote>

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