Cleric, heal my horse!!
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I'm A Banana
Potassium-Rich
The Leadership idea is a good idea...but my favorite is just giving up about two feats for having an animal companion/mount class feature.
Baring that, you can try to convince the DM to award the horse XP as if it was a member of the party, thus raising it's HD. Depending upon how often it carries you into battle, it's perfectly reasonable to assume that the horse is gaining levels along with everyone else.
Baring that, you can try to convince the DM to award the horse XP as if it was a member of the party, thus raising it's HD. Depending upon how often it carries you into battle, it's perfectly reasonable to assume that the horse is gaining levels along with everyone else.
When I first saw the title of this thread, I thought it was someone from my current game group!
If I may explain:
We have a player who is playing an "Honest Businessman" who had spent some money on a cart and a team of horses for the current adventure. The horses got wounded in a skirmish, as did some of the PCs.
The horses got the first CLW's, etc, despite the beating the front line warriors took. They still got fully healed though. In a later encounter, horses got wounded, horses were first to be healed. FLW's did NOT get fully healed.
Those horses are better cared for than anyone in the party (except the "Businessman").
"PROTECT THE HORSES!" has become the party's battle cry!
If I may explain:
We have a player who is playing an "Honest Businessman" who had spent some money on a cart and a team of horses for the current adventure. The horses got wounded in a skirmish, as did some of the PCs.
The horses got the first CLW's, etc, despite the beating the front line warriors took. They still got fully healed though. In a later encounter, horses got wounded, horses were first to be healed. FLW's did NOT get fully healed.
Those horses are better cared for than anyone in the party (except the "Businessman").
"PROTECT THE HORSES!" has become the party's battle cry!
Psychotic Jim
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You have a warhorse, right? That goes without saying. The previously mentioned Awaken and Leadership cohort idea is good if you know a friendly druid. Another alternative is to buy it magical barding if you can.
kigmatzomat
Legend
There are a couple ways to handle this. I do give out experience to animals trained for war that are used in combats. It's 1/4 what the PCs get for the same encounter (PCs learn from eachother's actions, animals not so much) so they don't level a whole lot.
Second, when the fighter's war horse finally got killed (took quite a while), he took great care when buying another one. The whole party turned out to help. The rogue used his impressive appraise skill to identify the most valuable horses, the cleric talked with the animals to find one that fit the fighter's temperament, druid was very specific in commune with nature to determine the strongest & most durable horses, and the bard negotiated. The main thing the fighter did was pay!
The new horse, Biggern, (who responded to the cleric's question of "who are you?" with "I'm bigger'n you." ) has exceptional stats and a few extra HD. (The dice loved this horse. 4d6dl resulted in 18,17,16,16,12,11,10) He's a monster.
The same rigamarole was performed when the cleric bought a new wardog.
Second, when the fighter's war horse finally got killed (took quite a while), he took great care when buying another one. The whole party turned out to help. The rogue used his impressive appraise skill to identify the most valuable horses, the cleric talked with the animals to find one that fit the fighter's temperament, druid was very specific in commune with nature to determine the strongest & most durable horses, and the bard negotiated. The main thing the fighter did was pay!
The new horse, Biggern, (who responded to the cleric's question of "who are you?" with "I'm bigger'n you." ) has exceptional stats and a few extra HD. (The dice loved this horse. 4d6dl resulted in 18,17,16,16,12,11,10) He's a monster.
The same rigamarole was performed when the cleric bought a new wardog.
the Jester
Legend
A while back I let a kobold pc pour 1000 xp into his riding dog to give it a fighter level (after said dog had been fighting alongside the party for about 3-4 levels).
It worked really well, but then she died (Ethel, the dog).
It worked really well, but then she died (Ethel, the dog).
6pakofdwarves
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You could also add the warbeast template if the dm allows, from one of the MM's or maybe fiend folio. If the dm is real nice he may let you do the warbeast AND magebred template.
But I would say wild cohort is your best bet.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/re/20031118a
But I would say wild cohort is your best bet.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/re/20031118a
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sniffles
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Good suggestions all. I'll have to look into the wild cohort feat. I doubt my GM would let me retcon a template, but he might be willing to go for the feat.
@Dannyalcatraz - yes, our horses are well cared for, too. We've got a paladin in the party, and a cleric who's practically a paladin in all but name. There have been occasions where the horses got healing before the party members did. The party is 8th level, so we've all got a fair dollop of HPs. My fighter can take 14 points of damage with ease, but he wouldn't be very happy if his horse, which he trained himself, went down.
@Dannyalcatraz - yes, our horses are well cared for, too. We've got a paladin in the party, and a cleric who's practically a paladin in all but name. There have been occasions where the horses got healing before the party members did. The party is 8th level, so we've all got a fair dollop of HPs. My fighter can take 14 points of damage with ease, but he wouldn't be very happy if his horse, which he trained himself, went down.
