theMycon
2010-03-22, 11:54 PM
This afternoon at work I sent around a picture of my boyfriend riding his dog. This, to one friend, started first an attempt to discern its breed (half-lab mutt), a debate over the merits of whether a medium sized creature should ride a heavy warhorse or a sufficiently advanced riding dog (there aren't rules for this, but it'd be a decent tripper & tough as hell), and then on to the ever-present question "how much better would this be if this could fly?"
Our thoughts then remained on how to model Falkor, the luck dragon from The Never Ending Story. I have a burning need to play this. I would be willing to be a paladin who devotes half his feats to this. Our plans involved "find prestige class that lets you ride dragons and modify the silver dragon," "get a large/huge celestial riding dog, and find a way to make it fly," and "google everything we can think of until we find stats for a luck dragon." The last of them has failed and the first bend the rules more than I like. Thus I turn to you, the playground. Make this work.
I want it as soon & low-level as possible. I don't care if it takes every resource I have, if I have to play a tier-5 class, or if it can hurt anyone. He must have above-average intelligence, be durable enough to ride, able to fly, and preferably look like a white Lhasa-Apso. Anything better is gravy. I would prefer to be able to take him in towns and/or dungeons, but if I'm still functional without him, not needed.
Try to keep it to core & completes +MIC/PHBII, but (since I will be telling the DM from the start this is half the point of my character, and negotiating fine details face-to-face) assume I can cherry-pick one or two things each from most other books. Dragon Magazine is entirely out of the question.
Thanks to you all, in advance.
Our thoughts then remained on how to model Falkor, the luck dragon from The Never Ending Story. I have a burning need to play this. I would be willing to be a paladin who devotes half his feats to this. Our plans involved "find prestige class that lets you ride dragons and modify the silver dragon," "get a large/huge celestial riding dog, and find a way to make it fly," and "google everything we can think of until we find stats for a luck dragon." The last of them has failed and the first bend the rules more than I like. Thus I turn to you, the playground. Make this work.
I want it as soon & low-level as possible. I don't care if it takes every resource I have, if I have to play a tier-5 class, or if it can hurt anyone. He must have above-average intelligence, be durable enough to ride, able to fly, and preferably look like a white Lhasa-Apso. Anything better is gravy. I would prefer to be able to take him in towns and/or dungeons, but if I'm still functional without him, not needed.
Try to keep it to core & completes +MIC/PHBII, but (since I will be telling the DM from the start this is half the point of my character, and negotiating fine details face-to-face) assume I can cherry-pick one or two things each from most other books. Dragon Magazine is entirely out of the question.
Thanks to you all, in advance.