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Message: <blockquote data-quote="frankthedm" data-source="post: 3203138" data-attributes="member: 1164">Tough horse? Dire horse in the MMII and the warmount template if the base creature is not enough. Nothing's AC just goes up by advancment. That is this rules system. AC does not go up without magic. Sink feats in improved natural armour & improved toughness rather than going for attack feats.  Whats so out there about that? If breeders wanted to make larger dogs for working tasks rather than inbreading Lupus Canis to meet 'breed standards' those puppies could get darn big. If I understand correctly, they were not trying to get Zorba this big….  <img src="http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/615/zorbawg5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />  300 to 400lbs sounds not much more than a 3 HD hyena with a Elite scores favoring STR and CON.One BIG problem is that WOTC rendered Ride by attack unusable when they took away overrunning on a charge. Doing this after rendering horses 10 feet fat really started to raise questions of how do you keep moving in the line of the charge with ride by attack.Then they go against how a charge is supposed to operate in one explanation and then not continually provide the same answer afterwards. But maybe I just dislike the idea of a charge path not be determined by a straight line measured from the center of the attacker’s and defender’s base . I’m none too keen on how much stuff negates charging either. It was like they realized how bad charging could get with power attack and they tried to balance it by reducing how often one could charge, rather than try and fix the inherent issues of multiplying such potentially obscene damage.When it was “You are in the back square of the mount” in 3.0, the Medium [heavy] Lance needed reach so the rider could attack those in front of the mount. Now in 3.5 the lance became a one handed long spear while your mount lives, that also doubles [possibly triples] your doubled power attack output if you put both hands on it. :/</blockquote>

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