Uses for a blind horse?

[Scion]

I was thinking stew as well..mmm.. stew..


I doubt it would do much good for something blind to run (dangerous I mean), but as the paladins mount is an extension of themselves I'd think that a good enough ride check would allow for it (straight path, decent terrain, that sort of thing).


With that I think that the paladin should be able to direct his mount to do almost anything.. but it would take an action to do so as he has to pay special care.

 

[Warehouse23]

*Bump*

Sorry, that was my impression of a blind paladin's mount attempting to weigh in on this topic.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

Uses for a blind horse?

I would have to say "glue".

AR

 

[melkorspawn]

Toss it through a broken portal with a bat, and see what comes out.

 

[Hair Wax]

I'm partial to horse stew myself.

And in reference to the "summoning it back with full health" thing. Could a Paladin sustain a small village on horsemeat (provided that he didn't kill his mount), by summoning it back daily? Heck, that's better than the Troll in a PantryTM.

Sort of like Thor's rams then?

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Um...is there a reason you can't get a friendly cleric to cast Remove Blindness on the horse in question? Or Heal?

I mean, seriously...if it's the paladin's faithful steed, he should do everything in his power to fix anything that's wrong with it. If he can't get fix the blindness (which would make me wonder about the DM in question...) by any reasonable means, then either put the horse out of its misery or board it in a pasture and let it stud or something.

Brad

 

[frankthedm]

That idea makes me seriously sick.

Why, meat is meat.

 

[TheGogmagog]

Funny, I just caught part of a show on PAX where this woman wasted months teaching a blind horse to ride trusting her to not ride it off a cliff.

That said it could probably move across good terrain at half speed. Ie normal blindess rules. It could be directed to attack the correct square, but would still have the normal miss chances.

I assume you have explored remove blindnes or regeneration. I don't know what would prevent you from dismissing it same as a no-longer wanted familiar. Aside from finding a crazy woman who has waaaayy too much time on her hands, The humane thing would be whack it with the warhamer after dismissing it.

 

[melkorspawn]

Why, meat is meat.

Isn't horse a delicacy somewhere? Switzerland, maybe?

 

[Joker]

Um...is there a reason you can't get a friendly cleric to cast Remove Blindness on the horse in question? Or Heal?

I mean, seriously...if it's the paladin's faithful steed, he should do everything in his power to fix anything that's wrong with it. If he can't get fix the blindness (which would make me wonder about the DM in question...) by any reasonable means, then either put the horse out of its misery or board it in a pasture and let it stud or something.

Brad

No clerics for them in the Abyss. As for the DM in question, I don't like to kill characters, but I and my players do like to feel that they and their surroundings are in danger. I ruled, not so much in the spirit of any knows rules but more for flavor that the manner in which they traveled to the Abyss (which was quite violent and unintentional) tore the celestialness (it's a word) from his mount, blinding it amongst other things.

I should note that although the character is devastated, the player of said character thought it was "kind of cool," and will try to do anything he can to aid his horse.