After looking over the mount section in the Darksun Campaign Setting I figured this thread deserved being resurrected.
Now we have the Medium-sized Erdlu which is able to pull a weight of 800 pounds vs. a Gargantuan-sized Mekillot which is able to pull a weight of 1300 pounds.
This really made me wonder how a pair of mekillots is supposed to pull one of those _huge_ arcosies they're often depicted with.
And I cannot imagine that three Erdlus could almost pull the same weight.
It didn't bother me a lot before, since I figured the difference between large and huge mounts probably wouldn't be so pronounced, but the Darksun mounts illustrate just how implausible these numbers really are.
Now we have the Medium-sized Erdlu which is able to pull a weight of 800 pounds vs. a Gargantuan-sized Mekillot which is able to pull a weight of 1300 pounds.
This really made me wonder how a pair of mekillots is supposed to pull one of those _huge_ arcosies they're often depicted with.
And I cannot imagine that three Erdlus could almost pull the same weight.
It didn't bother me a lot before, since I figured the difference between large and huge mounts probably wouldn't be so pronounced, but the Darksun mounts illustrate just how implausible these numbers really are.
We're a little more wary of handwaiving encumberance when we consider that a survival day weighs 8lbs.. An interesting/related thread recently kicked off 
