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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 6403748" data-attributes="member: 50895">I get it, but at my table a mount is a mount and not a PC, so no sharing of experience points. An animal companion, for example, gains HD, etc (essentially leveling up) based on the level of the druid or ranger. Are you suggesting that you'd replace an animal companions leveling process into having to participate in combat, rather than leveling with the base class of the "master"? (If you do, you're not playing PF anymore, but something else.) Are you suggesting that an animal companion gains experience in addition to the normal level process (of course now the animal companion would be gaining more XP than normal, even surpassing the master eventually)?Rite Publishing offers <a href="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/133090/In-The-Company-of-Dragons-PFRPG?term=in+the+company+of+dragons" target="_blank">In the Company of Dragons</a>, a 3PP supplement which allows you to play a dragon as a PC (which can also still be a mount). If you were running your mounts as special PCs, allowing them to get XP for participating in adventures would make sense. Anything short of mounts as PCs, then mounts should never gain XP.And why would you consider griffon, hippogriff and cooshee special? I've played many games over the years with similar type mounts. Compared to a horse in a non-D&D type world, they might seem special, but in the flavor of the game, they are just flying mounts (not the cooshee, of course) and nothing particularly special at all.Why do you think they are "special"?</blockquote>

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