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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RogueJK" data-source="post: 130068" data-attributes="member: 170">Read through the section on page 79 of MotW called "What is a Mount".  (This is right after the Windrider PrC description, but it makes no mention of being for Windriders only.  I could be wrong, though.) [And I was... see Edit, part 2 below]It gives rules for training creatures besides animals and beasts to carry riders.  Basically, it's a Handle Animal check of DC 25+the creature's HD.  In this case, with a 16 HD scorpion, it would be DC 41!  Not something that an 8th level druid could do, probably.  Not to mention that the mount has to have a CR no higher than your character level -3.  So it would require at least a 9th level character to ride a Huge Monstrous Scorpion.If you could somehow get his Handle Animal bonus high enough to train it, you would just have to find a way to make the scorpion willing to carry a rider.  That might require a special magic item, like a Collar of Vermin Control or something like that.[Edit] In order to carry a rider, a mount only needs to be one size category larger than the rider.  Since a Goblin is Small, the mount only needs to be Medium.  A medium-sized Monstrous Scorpion has only 2 HD, so the Handle Animal check would only be at DC 27.  Much more reasonable than DC 41.  Plus, with a Small rider and a Huge mount, I seriously doubt that the rider would be able to control his mount.  It would be like a kitten trying to ride and control you, or a person trying to ride and control a whale. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  [/Edit][Edit, part 2] I just re-read the section on "What's a Mount".  A normal druid (or any other character) can only train animals or beasts as mounts.  A Windrider, though, can train any creature with an Intelligence of 2 or below, including Vermin.  So make your Goblin a Druid7/Windrider1.  Max out his Handle Animal skill, and equip him with some magic items to raise his Handle Animal check.  In fact, a Goblin Windrider makes a lot of sense.  Goblins tend to ride Worgs, so there are bound to be some Windriders in their ranks.  This particular one just happens to prefer Monstrous Scorpions. [/Edit, part 2]</blockquote>

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