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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 5036776" data-attributes="member: 28487">To the OP in general IMO the implication of biology or ecology is not rigorously thought through. Occasionally some aspects are because it can provide a fun hook or a plot theme.I think that designers don't do it because, they want to leave stuff like that to the DM's and you can get involved in all kinds of hot-button and controversial issues if you start applying in game biology too rigoursly, particularly with regard to pc races.For instance all fantasy art that I've seen males are heavier and taller than females but in most rpg systems  there is no distinction based on gender for attribute generation. Now I know why this is so but it does not follow from the biology. Of course, I can also come up with reasons for the opposite but they just do not fit with the know facts of real world biology.On the hippogrifs, it depends on wheither hippogriffs can be domesticated easily. If it can be done with mundane techniques then everone would have some but if it requires some rare or obscure ritual then hippogrif cavalry would be rare.Also a lot depends on weither you see the fantasy world as the real world with magical expections or as a completely different thing with the exceptions built in from the ground up.</blockquote>