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<blockquote data-quote="SabreCat" data-source="post: 5527652" data-attributes="member: 76245">One of the PCs in my game just acquired a Nightmare as a mount. It's stylistically fantastic for the character, but as I haven't had to mess with such things much before, it's introduced some new rules wrinkles for me.1) The Nightmare has a teleport speed. There's text in the Mounted Combat section of the Rules Compendium that talks about rider or mount being teleported, in the passive voice, which suggests that's talking about unwilling teleportation from an attack. And the introductory section mentioning an advantage of a mount being that it gives alternate movement modes suggests the teleportation is an intentional perk. But all that said, at-will teleport 10 seems pretty crazy--do rider and mount teleport together like that?2) This fellow's likely to stick around for a while, so the question of its level scaling could become a problem. If we'd like the mount to level up with the owner (staying, in this case, at her level -2, which I'd think reasonable), I can easily do up the stats with the Monster Builder. But does that have any cost to the owner? Is there a formula for gold cost for training up a mount by a level? Or if we want a scaling beastie, should I be using the Companion Character rules, meaning our new friend takes a cut of party experience and so forth?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SabreCat, post: 5527652, member: 76245"] One of the PCs in my game just acquired a Nightmare as a mount. It's stylistically fantastic for the character, but as I haven't had to mess with such things much before, it's introduced some new rules wrinkles for me. 1) The Nightmare has a teleport speed. There's text in the Mounted Combat section of the Rules Compendium that talks about rider or mount being teleported, in the passive voice, which suggests that's talking about unwilling teleportation from an attack. And the introductory section mentioning an advantage of a mount being that it gives alternate movement modes suggests the teleportation is an intentional perk. But all that said, at-will teleport 10 seems pretty crazy--do rider and mount teleport together like that? 2) This fellow's likely to stick around for a while, so the question of its level scaling could become a problem. If we'd like the mount to level up with the owner (staying, in this case, at her level -2, which I'd think reasonable), I can easily do up the stats with the Monster Builder. But does that have any cost to the owner? Is there a formula for gold cost for training up a mount by a level? Or if we want a scaling beastie, should I be using the Companion Character rules, meaning our new friend takes a cut of party experience and so forth? [/QUOTE]

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