Are there statistics for reindeer/caribou in the books?

Emirikol · Dec 16, 2006

demiurge1138 · Dec 16, 2006

Frostburn has 'em.

Demiurge out.

Emirikol · Dec 16, 2006

Can they fly? My players are all pissed off that I have this guy in a war chariot being driven by caribou that can fly. One guy's claiming that because he read it in the book, that they can't fly..that they can't fly and so they could never have killed his wizard (who has the same spells as every other wizard he's ever taken). Not sure what to do with him except to say that his next character won't be getting any magic items this xmas...he's on the naughty list..ok..just kidding.

..on another note..thanks dude..I think I can get a hold of that book

jh

taliesin15 · Dec 17, 2006

1st edition used to have stats for "Herd Animals"...I think I've seen stats for Bison, so I would simply split the difference between say a cow or bull, buffalo and a light riding horse and leave it at that.

taliesin15 · Dec 17, 2006

Emirikol said:
Can they fly?

as to the idea of flying reindeer, folks do know that the whole Santa and his flying reindeer myth evolved from Thor and his flying magical war goats, right?

Emirikol · Dec 17, 2006

Thor's Goats can fly? Sweet! I wonder if that changes their king on the mountain game.

Does that mean that santa's sled was drug along by goats? Definately more imposing than reindeer. I may have to whip up some artwork quick...hmmm...goats heads....

Beats the polar bears stolen from frazetta..

jh

BOZ · Dec 18, 2006

thor can also kill his goats and eat them, and they regenerate the next day.

gizmo33 · Dec 18, 2006

taliesin15 said:
as to the idea of flying reindeer, folks do know that the whole Santa and his flying reindeer myth evolved from Thor and his flying magical war goats, right?

No, I didn't know that. Seems possible since both sets of animals fly their humans around. Other than that - the resemblance seems circumstantial and myth origins, like word origins, are pretty easy to falsely construct based on circumstantial evidence. Also I was under the impression that the reindeer thing was a 20th century American invention.