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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 3894495" data-attributes="member: 32536">Well, then they should remove those restrictions. Take a cue from Warcraft 3, and make them into the ideal mounts for powerful old wizards, or something. The important thing is that they can be made more useful without forcing them into a role other than what best suits them.I mean, is there a purpose for pegasi other than being a flying mount for characters?Also, mounts can be interesting opponents simply by combining them with a rider, and changing the encounter without requiring the mount becoming an individual combatant. A group of evil soldiers riding horses is a different encounter than a group of soldiers on foot. A group of evil soldiers riding pegasi, gryphons, or wyverns is another very different encounter. A PC riding a horse is a different kind of PC, and a PC riding a unicorn should be just as different and interesting.Monsters are good for a lot of things other than combat, and you admit so yourself right here (or else there wouldn't be a wide range for you to value). The reason that you don't seem to see dryads or unicorns often might because they are extremely limited creatures in their current implementation is a bit restrictive, not because their roles as allies and non-combatants is flawed.</blockquote>