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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 5036859" data-attributes="member: 23935">Of course.  Not every kingdom has flying mounts though most have a small contingent.  Not everyone uses hippogriffs, of course.  some use Spider Eaters, others griffons and one group had a failed experiment with wyverns. As for the cost/benefit ratio, they're expensive to keep, require exotic training for the animal and rider, and offer limited tactical value in a unverse with other methods of flight, instantaneous travel, and heavy ranged fire.The problem is one of commonality.  The fantastic, by definition, must be rare.  Adventurers simply run into too much for the majority to be fantastic to them.  One method to maintain the fantastic is to commonly use non-fantastic enemies like humans and have only the occasional appearance of a fantastical creature.  This is the formula used by a couple of Call of Cthulu campaigns I've been in.  The other approach is to use the creatures commonly, but continually reinvent them so every encounter they act differently with different abilities.  I hate this approach as it means the players have no opportunity to learn tactics, develop strategy, or predict actions.  In fact, under this system there is no reason the player should bother paying attention to the creature and its abilities since the next one will have only coincidental siimilarities.As for the kobold example, having a race of smart evil critters with a pathological hatred for the adventurers and all of their kind and a penchant for traps and gadgetry is scary in and of itself and requires no further magic.  If it doesn't your GM isn't being heartless enough.</blockquote>

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