What's the ultimate Dwarf ride?

[Kilmore]

All... my... dwarves... ride the low rider...

 

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

Everyone needs a ride!!!

Look, I'm as proud as any dwarf playing guy of the carrying capacity of my adopted race. But the fact is, everybody needs a ride.

It's just not right to walk into town with your supplies on your back, get drunk, pick up a nicely bearded lady dwarf, and then walk with her back to the clanhold.

You need a ride to show the world that you are a dwarf of substance and sophistication. A dwarf who knows how to buy a mine pony that won't let the family down or embarass the children when you drop them off at Junior Dwarf School.

More neatly, however, everyone in my party walks, I hate slowing 'em down and I want to make them see the beauty of actually riding something. As a druid I have some options for that, but I don't want to stray too far from from Dwarfish roots.

I like the ant idea, they wouldn't be as pathetic as mine ponies. And I could justify their having darkvision.

I looked at the Forgotten Realms riding lizard, but couldn't understand the encumbrance rules they had listed with it. According to what I understood, the lizard reaches light load at 130lbs, which struck me as too light for anyone much less an armored drow or duergar.

So I tried to compare it with the mounts in the PHB and couldn't discover anything about how they endured encumbrance either, except for how far they could travel in a day with a light load.

I don't understand why noone had put out a big book of mounts yet. Cavalry is the bomb.

 

[jollyninja]

There was a scene in Siege of Darkness where a battlerager dwarf launched himself down a tunnel with a side throwing catapult. That seemed a pretty wild ride.

that was the funniest part of any novel i have ever read. i am reffering collectivley to every part of any salvatore book involving the battleragers of mithril hall. Drizzt should die any time now but those battleragers deserve their own book.

anyway dwarven mounts should come in two veriaties, the underground mining mounts/beasts of burden to check out caverns and such, and the above ground. i would imagine both would be determined by what was plentiful in the area. if they had big goats, that would work as would donkeys. though i once played a giantslaying dwarf who rode a giant goat in 2e. yeah, goats are the best choice, donkeys do not have horns. underground i like lizzards over spiders. spiders remind me of drow and all the time i wasted reading salvatore's drivel. i do not want to associate dwarves with anything i hate.

 

[Redleg06]

C'mon you know... a lowrider man!!!!!

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[Eryndur]

dwarf paladin mounts

I'm currently playing a dwarf paladin, and next level I get my special mount.

What would be appropriate for a dwarf paladin of Clangeddin Silverbeard who hails from Citadel Adbar?

I'm talking something for overland travel, and that looks cool.

No donkeys, mules, or anything ridiculous. Right now, I'm riding a pony while the rest of the PC's ride horses. And I'm the frickin' PALADIN, fer criminy's sake!

Help a poor dwarf out, wouldya?

 

[Dragongirl]

Re: dwarf paladin mounts

Originally posted by Eryndur What would be appropriate for a dwarf paladin of Clangeddin Silverbeard who hails from Citadel Adbar?[/B]

Well it may not look all that much neater, but you could apply the celestial template to a pony, or lion or something.

 

[The Traveler]

Why, Space Mountain at Disneyland, of course!

Too bad they're too short to be let on it...

 

[Danzilla]

Elephants

I can see a dwarf kicking the rope ladder down and dismounting from an elephant...that would be really cool!!!

 

[Jondor_Battlehammer]

Long ago I had an idea for a bear riding Dwarf. Years later, I actually found a mini for it.

I would say constructs. A Stone Horse or the Goat Figurines.

 

[ValamirCleaver]

I also like the idea of a dwarf mounted on a bear. I have also seen a fig of dwarven ursine cavalry.