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Message: <blockquote data-quote="knasser" data-source="post: 6932640" data-attributes="member: 65151">Also, giant eagles, giant owls.I see these things in the MM and they all have strengths of 13 or more. (Owl is 13, Bat is 15, Eagle is 16) and are all Large. A Riding Horse has a Str of 16. But I personally find it harder to fly than walk no matter how hard I jump so I'm guessing that might translate to it being harder to fly with someone on your back than walk with the same.How can I determine whether a flying creature can carry or be ridden by a creature. Do I do it by Str, by size category differences? I'm new to D&D 5e. Intuitively I want to say Goblins on Giant Bats are okay, Hobgoblins are not; a giant owl swooping and picking up a PC to drop them on a ledge is fine, a giant owl being ridden across the plains much less so. Any rules for this or guidelines people can suggest? Minus points for anyone going on about how Gandalf could have just flown the hobbits to Mordor. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>