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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jacob" data-source="post: 5419446" data-attributes="member: 98644">My brother got deep into the Mounted Archery with his wolf animal companion. Needless to say, he dominated on the field when there was plenty of space to run around. When he was learning about mounted combat, I directed him to the <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/arch/rg" target="_blank">Rules of the Game Archive</a> at Wizards. There's a 5 part article there all about mounted combat. Should be plenty of reading and info for you there.Far as I can see, mounts (not just horses) are meant to be treated like equipment (lest they are a special creature). Sure, they are living creatures, but they are a commodity, that is amazing early in game, but tend to lose appeal later on. They tend to die against the perils the adventurers survive against. Again, this is more your stock mount, but as it goes.But you're looking for suggestions on the horses presented. In no particular order: Gold Horse. Why and how is it getting extra gold to the party? Is the gold being stolen from what the party would already find? And why is such a horse being sold to common people, and not solely a product for the rich to get richer?White Horse: I assume the Temp HP is 1/day, lest the PCs want to abuse the heck out of the bonus HP the horse provides. And this is also a magical horse, due to the fact it can cast a spell-like ability. Which means it has an intelligence score, and therefore not an animal...I think? If anything, it certainly makes it more complex (and expensive) than your normal animal.Hell Horse: Again, seems like a magical beast, and therefore more expensive than a normal animal.Nightmare + Grey Warhorse: First, not to be confused with THE <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/nightmare.htm" target="_blank">Nightmare</a>, right? I fail to see the need to make these present, if for just the small boon they give to respective moments of the game, because the <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/horse.htm#warhorseHeavy" target="_blank">Warhorse</a> is already battle trained to fight and not get spooked by undead (I think). The only issue I see other than that is the mention of having the mount fight with you even while dismounted...which you can already do with a regular horse with current rules (Handle Animal check i believe). And summoning undead? Doesn't that make it...evil (besides a magical beast)?In summary, the lot you have aren't "Horses", and shouldn't be priced as such. If anything, consider prices more similar to the <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/griffon.htm" target="_blank">Griffon</a>, <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/spiderEater.htm" target="_blank">Spider Eater</a>, and <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/hippogriff.htm" target="_blank">Hippogriff</a>. I know there are others, but that's what I got for the now.</blockquote>

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