What would be a fun "steed" for a flaming skull?

[Silkensword]

I'm playing a flaming skull bard. I want a cool thing to ride on. CR either 1/2 or 2, depending on if you're going to suggest a regular or greater steed. My first idea was a helmed horror, but the cr is too high. Hit me up.

[JNAProductions]

I'm playing a flaming skull bard. I want a cool thing to ride on. CR either 1/2 or 2, depending on if you're going to suggest a regular or greater steed. My first idea was a helmed horror, but the cr is too high. Hit me up.

A zombie with no head.
A skeleton with no head.
Animated Armor.

Basically, anything where you can be its head.

[dreast]

A zombie with no head.
A skeleton with no head.
Animated Armor.

Basically, anything where you can be its head.

https://youtu.be/gP0Neif7Y4E?t=930

Sorry, was reminded of this and had to share.

[Tiadoppler]

An imp or pseudo-dragon who wears you as a helmet.

A raven who carries you in its claws.

You're mounted on another wizard's quarterstaff.

[Talderas]

I'm playing a flaming skull bard. I want a cool thing to ride on. CR either 1/2 or 2, depending on if you're going to suggest a regular or greater steed. My first idea was a helmed horror, but the cr is too high. Hit me up.

As the hood ornament to an Apparatus of Kwalish.

[Kane0]

As the hood ornament to an Apparatus of Kwalish.

Oh man definitely this.

[Lord8Ball]

http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/36400000/Ghost-rider-club-image-ghost-rider-club-36490424-900-720.jpg

[Daithi]

On top of a quarterstaff (staff of power or staff of magi preferably) and make some flunky carry you around.

[Malifice]

I'm playing a flaming skull bard. I want a cool thing to ride on. CR either 1/2 or 2, depending on if you're going to suggest a regular or greater steed. My first idea was a helmed horror, but the cr is too high. Hit me up.

Animated armor (you get to live inside the helmet) gives you the look you're after, and at a CR to match.

[CircleOfTheRock]

As the hood ornament to an Apparatus of Kwalish.
Yes, absolutely yes to this :smallbiggrin:

[Silkensword]

Thank you everyone!! Love this community I can turn to in my hour of need : D

[Unoriginal]

A flying horse skull.

[Ellisthion]

Another, bigger, flaming skull. Which itself rides an even bigger flaming skull. It's skulls all the way down.

[Oxydeur]

Don't forget to put gems in your eye sockets and to pretend to be a demi-lich !


Side question : what stats do you use for playing a flaming skull as a PC?

[vicente408]

A headless horseman.

[Naanomi]

In between the two heads of an ettin

[Aett_Thorn]

A Halfling. Put a trenchcoat over the both of you so that you appear to be a normal-sized person.

[Joe the Rat]

Don't forget to put gems in your eye sockets and to pretend to be a demi-lich !

That's what the magic gems/eyes are good for. You don't even need the lens frames!
Eyes of charming?
A water elemental gem for the irony?
A luckstone with an iounstone for the non-winking eye that is also the prison gem for a demilich?


Animated Armor would be my "serious" recommendation. With crawling claws in the gauntlets for emergencies.

[BBQ Pork]

A zombie with no head.
A skeleton with no head.
Animated Armor.

Basically, anything where you can be its head.

Or perhaps in its belly, like Krang from TMNT.


Edit: Then you could put a fake "head" on it to confuse people who like to take Called Shots. ;)

[Daithi]

As the hood ornament to an Apparatus of Kwalish.

Or inside the Apparatus of Kwalish on a gear shift.

[CircuitEngie]

Building on earlier ideas:

A Flameskull, riding on the shoulders of Strahd's Animated Armor, riding on the back of a Nightmare.

The Animated Armor utilizes a chain whip for additional fun.

[MaxWilson]

https://youtu.be/gP0Neif7Y4E?t=930

Sorry, was reminded of this and had to share.

Also, this song about cephalophores.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anWrcmKsYI8

[BBQ Pork]

I don't run the kind of campaign where someone would use a singing, flaming skull as a codpiece.

But if I did, I would.

[Chugger]

Oh man ... this is so strange, but there is a zombie beholder that has lost its central eye. The flaming skull has set up shop in the zombie beholder's ravaged eye-socket - and it flies him around!

And yes it's still got 2 or 3 top eye stalks that do shoot (probably not dis. ray, but some of the other rays)!

[Beelzebubba]

A helmet, neck gorget, and set of shoulder pauldrons of a set of plate armor, trailing a tattered cape.

That levitating through hallways would be awesome.

[Malifice]

Cast Find Steed.

Fluff whatever you get as a Harley Davidson motorcycle, with a body attached to the seat.

Call self Ghost Rider.

https://images5.alphacoders.com/305/thumb-1920-305962.jpg

[Joe the Rat]

A helmet, neck gorget, and set of shoulder pauldrons of a set of plate armor, trailing a tattered cape.

That levitating through hallways would be awesome.
Now I want to name the skull Nabu.


There's a lot of comic bookery in this one.

[Silkensword]

Don't forget to put gems in your eye sockets and to pretend to be a demi-lich !


Side question : what stats do you use for playing a flaming skull as a PC?

A wonderful idea! Definitely noted for the future!

and I'm using the Monstrous Races rulebook, it's 3 bucks off dm's guild! it lets you play as anything in the phb

EDIT: Phb?? I meant the monster manual

[Balthasaurus]

Cast Find Steed.

Fluff whatever you get as a Harley Davidson motorcycle, with a body attached to the seat.

Call self Ghost Rider.



Dude, there was an Unearthed Arcana a while back for modern D&D settings that literally had a spell called "Find Vehicle". What's more, the vehicle always appears magical and celestial/fey/fiendish.

Problem solved, with no need for fluff!

[jjadned]

You could have the mount be the body of an Arvak like horse
https://cdn.segmentnext.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Arvak-e1513782524876.jpg

But instead a flaming skull for the head

[Coidzor]

A headless flaming skeleton/zombie. Or a Dullahan.

[PopeLinus1]

A magic propeller beany

[Lord8Ball]

Either have a magic ball so you can become the soccer ball robot from Starwars, but a fantasy setting. Did someone say brown mold?

[vicente408]

Carried around on a dinner platter by a zombie waiter.