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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5878492" data-attributes="member: 6669384">To be honest, the carpet was more or less a joke.Consider starting with the statue of a horse.  The hardness of the stone will remain once it's animated, effectively giving it a significant DR.  Four legs will give it speed.Note that an Animated Object - Pony will have all the same virtues, and fit in places where riding horseback would be an issue.Of course, you'll still have the problem that, like the roller blades or the skateboard, it won't respond the way you might expect.  Skateboards and roller skates are maneuvered by shifting body weight, leaning or pushing off.  Horses respond to the reins, the spurs, the pressure of your knees.Constructs respond to verbal commands, only.  Their movements will only be as precise as you can describe in the few words you can utter while moving in combat, which means that while you may be able to move very fast, precise placement or combat maneuvers may be out of the question.Oh, and if you move into a Silence area, you are hosed. You can't give orders if they can't hear them, so you'll be immobilized, or else you'll continue moving along your last course, with no way to stop or change direction.</blockquote>