Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="freyar" data-source="post: 5027632" data-attributes="member: 40227">This is all just guesswork, mind you, and I'm looking at 3.5 stats.  That said:The griffon and giant owl a definitely intelligent enough to take verbal instructions, and the owl can actually talk back!  The hippogriff, however, is as intelligent as a horse.They're all Large, same size category as a horse but are somewhat bigger in dimensions.  So I'd guess most stables would be a little too small, but they'd be ok in a large stable or barnyard area.  Feeding: that's tough.  Whether they can feed themselves may depend on the situation and whether you'd trust them to come back.  I think you'd be able to trust the owl and griffon, but it'd be a lot like falconry with the hippogriff -- you might not know the first few times whether it will return.  You could maybe represent that with a lowish DC Handle Animal check, so it's likely ok but could be costly on a bad flub.  The cost of food is probably pretty high, since these are all carnivorous (I think).  So I'd say more than a horse.  You could look at the cost for a trainer to rear them, subtract a bit, and figure that's the amount of food for however long it would take them to grow up (say a year).  Not sure.As for getting along: I'd treat the hippogriff like a horse or a raptor or a bit of both.  The griffon and owl I'd probably think of like an intelligent magic item.  You might also take clues from their alignments and flavor -- maybe make the griffon prideful and the owl goodly and wise (since it's usually NG).You might also try asking in the 3e rules forum to see if anyone knows a 3rd party publication that addresses this kind of issue.</blockquote>

Verification