What new mount from the Forgotten Realms or D&D would you like to see in-game?
Rothé:
These creatures come in at least 3 varieties, Surface/Tundra Rothé (Brown/Grey/Dark Brown), Deep Rothé (Black/Dark Grey found in the Underdark and use magical lights to communicate), and Ghost Rothé (large white rothé with magical abilities that grant them teleportation and silence)
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The clue's in the name...
I get that the Jubilee horse gets to trot round like its doing Olympic Dressage, but the "Charger" needs a heftier, more appropriate, animation.
C'mon devs, I want a bloody great big warhorse, not the prancing mare a ten year old rides at the local gymkhana.
As far as "new" mounts go, drawing from folk lore, how about a broomstick, or magic carpet?
Either of those would be a hoot.
a lot of the current mounts are tiny tiny and with a giant dragonborn it always makes me feel bad having this giant on a tiny mount with all that armor and stuff. lol.
I also seriously dislike the whipping animation that ONLY shows up on cat mounts. not necessary. seems cruel. instead of saying neat kitty I'm all like aww poor mistreated kitty
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On such a note, class-specific mounts that are unlocked via class-quests would be neat and this levitation could be the one for the Control Wizard class. Make them unlock per character, not account wide, to provide for more variance. Seeing fighters levitating around, while not unheard of in the Realms, just would be odd to see for example, especially en masse.
Also, race-specific mounts would also be neat. Like class-mounts mentioned above, make them unlock via class-quests and be per character, not account.
Some ideas on the above:
Class Quest Mounts:
- Control Wizard: A choice of either Levitation "animation" or a Phantom Steed
- Devoted Cleric: A choice of either Celestial Charger or Hippogriff
- Great Weapon Fighter: A choice of either a Steel Horse or a Juvenile Oliphant
- Guardian Fighter: A choice of either a Stone Horse or an Elephant
- Hunter Ranger: A choice between types of Large Wild Animals (Deer, Moose, Bear, Tiger, etc)
- Oathbound Paladin: A choice between colors/patterns of a "Clydsedale-like" Armored Warhorse
- Scourge Warlock: A choice between a Manticore or a Fiendish Wolf
- Trickster Rogue: A choice between either a "Shadow" Drake or a Dire Wolf
Race Quest Mounts:- Dragonborn: A choice between colors of "Chromatic" Drakes (Black, Blue, Green, Red, White)
- Dragonborn (Metallic): A choice between colors of "Metallic" Drakes (Brass, Bronze, Copper, Gold, Silver)
- Drow Elf: A choice of either a Cavvekan or a Riding Lizard
- Drow Elf (Menzoberranzan): A choice of either a Sinister or a Riding Lizard
- Dwarf: A choice of either a Giant Goat or a Dwarven War-Boar
- Elf: A choice of either an Armored Elk or a Cath Shee
- Half-Elf: A choice of either a Donkey or a Cooshee
- Half-Orc: A choice of either an Orc-Armored Rhinoceros or an Orc-Armored Bear
- Halfling: A choice of either a Riding Dog or a Pony
- Human: A choice between patterns/variants of a Warhorse
- Moon Elf: A choice between a Pegasus or a Cath Shee
- Sun Elf: A choice between a Giant Eagle or a Cath Shee
- Tiefling: A choice between a Canoloth or Bonespear
Descriptions:- Phantom Steed: You conjure a Large, quasi-real, horse-like creature (the exact coloration can be customized as you wish). It can be ridden only by you or by the one person for whom you specifically created the mount. A phantom steed has a black head and body, gray mane and tail, and smoke-colored, insubstantial hooves that make no sound. It has what seems to be a saddle, bit, and bridle. It does not fight, but animals shun it and refuse to attack it.
- Celestial Charger: A celestial charger has deep sea-blue, violet, brown, or fiery gold eyes. Males sport a white beard. A typical adult celestial charger grows to 8 feet in length, stands 5 feet high at the shoulder, and weighs 1,200 pounds. Females are slightly smaller and slimmer than males.
- Hippogriff: Hippogriffs are aggressive flying creatures that combine features of horses and giant eagles. Voracious omnivores, hippogriffs will hunt humanoids as readily as any other meal. A typical hippogriff is 9 feet long, has a wingspan of 20 feet, and weighs 1,000 pounds.
- Stone/Steel Horse: A magical item that appears to be a full sized, roughly hewn statue of a horse, carved from some type of hard stone or metal. A command word brings the steed to life, enabling it to carry a burden and even to attack as if it were a real horse of the appropriate kind.
- Oliphant: An oliphant is an apparent modern relative of the mastodon, with down-curving tusks. An oliphant is intelligent enough to be trained as an engine of destruction, attacking with its tusks and heavy forelegs, and can be used in war and for other military duties when armored with leather or scale and plate reinforcements, spikes projecting from head and forelegs, and bearing a castle-like houdas containing archers and pikemen.
- Dire Wolf: Dire wolves are mottled gray or black, about 9 feet long and weighing some 800 pounds.
- Dwarven War-Boar: Giant boars trained and specially bred for their strength and constitution by many dwarven clans and kingdoms armies. Dwarven war-boars do not have their speed reduced by wearing heavy barding armor.
- Cavvekan: Also known as bat-faced dogs, these Underdark natives superficially resemble the dogs of the surface world, except instead of fur they have black, velvet-smooth skin. Their ears are upright and pointed and their noses have leaflike projections similar to those of certain surface bats. They have sensitive whiskers, small eyes, and a slender build.
- Riding Lizard: These horse-sized lizards are built low to the ground with legs splayed wide. Their steady gait, sense of balance, and ability to walk on walls and ceilings make them ideal mounts for patrolling dark elves.
- Sinister: The weird mantalike levitating creatures called sinisters have a 9-foot wingspan. Although they are not evil, sinisters are sometimes captured and enslaved with magic and forced to serve the dark elves.
- Cath Shee: The cath shee, or faerie cat, is a mountain lion-sized feline that live only in elfin and sylvan lands. They have grey-green fur, tufted ears, and large, golden eyes. Like many cats, they are independent, but they can be persuaded to become the companion to woodland elves and other sylvan creatures.
- Cooshee: Cooshees are large, 200-pound, 4-foot tall hounds and resemble large huskies with green fur and brown spots. Their tail curves up over their back, and they have slightly pointed ears. Their paws are large and heavily clawed. They are known throughout the world as elven dogs, for their features resemble those of elves and they are often found in the employ of elves (who use them as guards). Though they only bark to warn their masters or other cooshees, the bark can be heard clearly up to one mile away.
- Riding Dog: Working breeds such as collies, huskies, and St. Bernards.
- Pegasus: The pegasus is a magnificent winged horse that sometimes serves the cause of good. Though highly prized as aerial steeds, pegasi are wild and shy creatures not easily tamed. A typical pegasus stands 6 feet high at the shoulder, weighs 1,500 pounds, and has a wingspan of 20 feet. Pegasi cannot speak, but they understand Common.
- Giant Eagle: A typical giant eagle stands about 10 feet tall, has a wingspan of up to 20 feet, and resembles its smaller cousins in nearly every way except size. It weighs about 500 pounds.
- Bonespear: A bonespear's a large, insectile creature with a hard, chitinous shell. Its head is a huge misshapen sphere with a pair of jutting barbed horns. Beneath these horns are the creature's eyes and a gaping maw full of jagged teeth. Six pairs of thick, clawed legs line its body. The bonespear doesn't use its legs for fighting, but likes to anchor itself to good, hard rock with its twelve feet. It'd take a basher with the muscle of a fire giant to move a bonespear that's got itself set.
- Canoloth (Yugoloth): Canoloths resemble great semi-insectile mastiffs, their hulking forms plated in chitinous armor. Their bodies've got a distinctly bulldoglike shape to them, with massive jaws and short, squat, forelegs. Their mouths are made up of both a horizontal set of teeth and a vertical set of teeth just behind, and a vile barbed tongue often lolls out of the creature's mouth. The canoloth's nostrils're gaping wounds in the front of its skull, and it has no eyes -- it relies on its uncanny senses of smell and hearing to find its quarry. Canoloths communicate with semi-intelligent or higher creatures by means of an innate power of telepathy.
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Gimmie my riding goats! Dagnabbit!
No Half-Orc... </3
-A human you ride piggy back (this was someone else's idea, Knox was suggested)
-Magic carpet
-skeletal bear, wolf and tiger
-So we have the water horse and horse with the fire on it - how about an earth and wind one
-a plague of locusts (can look like whirlwind only with locusts involved)
-a giant hamster ball with the animation of your character running inside
-an actual giant space hamster
-A shape shifting mount - one that every time you summon it appears like one of the other mounts at random (does not get those mounts bonus - just the appearance)
Ravenskya - TR / Krisha Chaos - OP / Waffles - GF / Dex Domitor - HR
Becky the trendy GWF - GWF / Too Toasty - SW / Falcor - DC / Morrigan - CW / Sir Didymus - OP
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I don't really have fanciful ideas about mounts. I mostly hate how the monster ones look. The ones that are animated objects or spells leave me quite cold (I've never lusted after a Tenser's Disc). I like animals* that are naturally an appropriate size to ride, which is possibly very unimaginative of me, but I tend to picture an actual rapport between the character and the mount, and I don't change them often, if at all. But each of my alts does ride something different.
Details do matter to me though. I love the touch of mounts with some kit strapped on them like camping equipment. The Tuigan Courser is one of my favorites. And while I was no fan of the Striders, the fact that the armored one included stuff like a bedroll was a nice touch.
The PS4-exclusives have been really beautiful (Electric Tiger and Cerulean Unicorn?). I guess I just like blue more than green, because the XBox ones never grabbed me as much. But I guess I could add that I like FX on mounts like the trail for Starry Panthers (Rainbow and regular), and more features like a trail of flaming footprints would be neat. I think it was in Cold Run recently where I was marvelling that my Owlbear was leaving realistic prints in the snow. Either I never noticed before or it was a visual I had turned down or off previously.
*Magical animals acceptable. The Starfade and Celestial Stags are lovely and so is the Swift Golden Lion.
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what about tieflings?
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A drider!
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