Tokiko Mima
2007-09-06, 08:17 PM
Hi folks reading this!
I have a question, or actually I'm looking for ideas. I'm helping someone build a character for a campaign I'm in. I have my character all set, but the friend I'm helping wanted a Paladin. His conditions were that his character be a human Paladin, and that the mount flies and is is relatively useful most of the time. Since the campaign starts at level 13, and I own the Draconomicon, I suggested a dragon mount. Long story short, it didn't work out because that's too low a level for any true dragons mountable by a Medium sized human to be in range.
So the DM suggested I convert the Dragon Steed Feat into Leadership, and select a flying mount as a cohort. I'm not sure this is entirely by the rules, but he included that the mount I choose will count as a special mount for the Paladin, and I can include all the goodies from special mount class feature on the flying mount.
So, I looked through and picked a griffon. Large mount, tough in battle, great for charging in with it's Pounce and Rake features, so I figured I was set. Then I applied the Paladin stuff to the griffon and discovered that griffins... tend to get bigger if you give them 6 more HD. They become Huge in fact, which makes them strong enough to lift an entire party of PC's and an elephant with room to spare (I got 34 Str with all the adjustments using the Elite Array).
While it makes it a killing machine, it's going to be tough to get through your average dungeon crawl. Large size would probably be ok, but Huge is a bit much. So I was wondering, is there any magic item I could buy to shrink or shapeshift a Huge Griffon into a more travel sized form? Something perhaps that could be used many times per day? I guess what I want is a Poké Ball, pardon the reference, but I'm up for anything that keep the power of a monster bird-o-death and still lets you bring him along for the fun.
I have a question, or actually I'm looking for ideas. I'm helping someone build a character for a campaign I'm in. I have my character all set, but the friend I'm helping wanted a Paladin. His conditions were that his character be a human Paladin, and that the mount flies and is is relatively useful most of the time. Since the campaign starts at level 13, and I own the Draconomicon, I suggested a dragon mount. Long story short, it didn't work out because that's too low a level for any true dragons mountable by a Medium sized human to be in range.
So the DM suggested I convert the Dragon Steed Feat into Leadership, and select a flying mount as a cohort. I'm not sure this is entirely by the rules, but he included that the mount I choose will count as a special mount for the Paladin, and I can include all the goodies from special mount class feature on the flying mount.
So, I looked through and picked a griffon. Large mount, tough in battle, great for charging in with it's Pounce and Rake features, so I figured I was set. Then I applied the Paladin stuff to the griffon and discovered that griffins... tend to get bigger if you give them 6 more HD. They become Huge in fact, which makes them strong enough to lift an entire party of PC's and an elephant with room to spare (I got 34 Str with all the adjustments using the Elite Array).
While it makes it a killing machine, it's going to be tough to get through your average dungeon crawl. Large size would probably be ok, but Huge is a bit much. So I was wondering, is there any magic item I could buy to shrink or shapeshift a Huge Griffon into a more travel sized form? Something perhaps that could be used many times per day? I guess what I want is a Poké Ball, pardon the reference, but I'm up for anything that keep the power of a monster bird-o-death and still lets you bring him along for the fun.