paladin mount

[punkorange]

I have never had a paladin in my group before, so I'm not fresh on the rules for a paladin's mount, but the paladin is a human follower of bahamut. He want's his mount to be a half-dragon heavy warhorse. He started at level 7 due to the rest of the group.

In theory a half-dragon warhoarse is simply a template and perfectly within the rules, but in context wouldn't that mean a dragon would have to mate with a horse. I frankly don't see this happening. I guess it could take the template and be blessed by bahamut or something. Also since a heavy warhorse is a large creature, it will have wings and flight as well, right?

I see it as an awesome character, a human rider on a golden draconic warhorse, and I will probably allow it just because I don't feel it would break the campaign, and noone else has a problem with the idea. I just wanted to run it past you guys and get your take.

I hold this community's suggestions in high regard.

 

[Jdvn1]

Aren't there alternate mount suggestions in the DMG? I'd try to base it off one of those.

Also, I believe the Draconic template is a lower LA than the Half-Dragon template, and probably makes more sense.

 

[Hypersmurf]

In theory a half-dragon warhoarse is simply a template and perfectly within the rules, but in context wouldn't that mean a dragon would have to mate with a horse. I frankly don't see this happening.

There are half-dragon ogres and half-dragon T-Rexes and half-dragon halflings running around in published adventures.

3E Dragons will mate with anything. (As will Celestials, apparently. Someone here played a half-celestial gelatinous cube once.)

-Hyp.

 

[isoChron]

Well, watch the movie "Shrek II". There are halfdragon-donkeys at the end after the credits(?).
They are cute ...

 

[punkorange]

I'll check the DMG when I get home from work, I knew I had read about alternate paladin mounts somewhere, but I couldn't seem to remember where.

 

[shilsen]

I'll check the DMG when I get home from work, I knew I had read about alternate paladin mounts somewhere, but I couldn't seem to remember where.

Pg. 204.

 

[Wolf72]

I'm sure some mad wizard has used arcane energies to splice dragon and horse together to get the desired effect (owlbears)

... and of course it got away (or their were several ... why not make lots, after all there are 10+types of dragon and the wizard is mad)

 

[Klaus]

"Half Dragon" doesn't have to mean the dragon got jiggy with the horse.

By applying the half-dragon template to a Heavy Warhorse, you can state that the creature is a horse-shaped dragon, a Dragonsteed, magically created by Bahamut as a breed of dragons that serve specifically as mounts to worthy mortal heroes. Treat the paladin as 3 levels lower with regards to the mountain special abilities (so he should get a Dragonsteed at 8th level).

I did this precisely same thing in a short-lived campaign.

 

[Hypersmurf]

"Half Dragon" doesn't have to mean the dragon got jiggy with the horse.

Yeah, but it can

-Hyp.

 

[Jdvn1]

Yeah, but it can

-Hyp.

And it explains the little ones a little easier.