Caeldrim
2008-12-02, 02:35 AM
Hi Y'all,
Long time lurker, first time poster. (hooray!)
Have built myself a Whisper Gnome Wizard (currently level 6), with a weasel familiar, and (here's the interesting part) a dire weasel mount.
I'm doing this for fun, not for min/max/optimisation reasons, but a mount with 13hp is more of a liability than anything else at the moment.
My questions:
Question the First - having already taken Mounted Combat, are there any other feats/spells/magic items that I could take/learn/make/buy to increase my mount's survivability and general effectiveness? I have Craft wondrous item, but no other item creation feats.
I have a Robe of Stability (possibly Steadying Robe?), which allows me to ignore concentration checks from movement of a mount, which helps, and have bought him some decent barding (Mstwk Chain 'shirt'), and some 'paw gloves/booties of speed' which have him moving at 70ft (!).
A 'Ride by Attack' equivalent for spellcasters would be good, but so far have been unable to find anything like that.
Question the Second - Can anyone think of commonly available mount type animals (of medium size) that would work better for my purposes? Flight would be good, but all the flying mounts I can find are either small or large. Ideally I'd like something that fit ok with the 'sneaky' vibe of the character. (whisper gnome, weasels, etc etc)
The character's backstory places him as a stablehand/animal trainer for a large magical organisation/government, and we have a druid in the party to help me out, so finding and training the animal shouldn't be a major issue, but the DM is very unlikely to allow anything too 'far out' as a mount, or at the very least make it very difficult (to the point of not being worthwhile) for me to FIND the animal in the first place.
Question the Third - Is it worth taking improved familiar and combining familiar and mount into one handy package?
Question the Fourth - Ride and Handle Animal are of course, cross class skills for me. I've managed to keep Spellcraft and Concentration maxed out while still spending points here and there in Ride/Handle Animal, but would really prefer to be able to get more out of my spent skill ranks. Is there any way to make a cross class skill into a class skill?
Thanking playgrounders in advance. :smallbiggrin:
Long time lurker, first time poster. (hooray!)
Have built myself a Whisper Gnome Wizard (currently level 6), with a weasel familiar, and (here's the interesting part) a dire weasel mount.
I'm doing this for fun, not for min/max/optimisation reasons, but a mount with 13hp is more of a liability than anything else at the moment.
My questions:
Question the First - having already taken Mounted Combat, are there any other feats/spells/magic items that I could take/learn/make/buy to increase my mount's survivability and general effectiveness? I have Craft wondrous item, but no other item creation feats.
I have a Robe of Stability (possibly Steadying Robe?), which allows me to ignore concentration checks from movement of a mount, which helps, and have bought him some decent barding (Mstwk Chain 'shirt'), and some 'paw gloves/booties of speed' which have him moving at 70ft (!).
A 'Ride by Attack' equivalent for spellcasters would be good, but so far have been unable to find anything like that.
Question the Second - Can anyone think of commonly available mount type animals (of medium size) that would work better for my purposes? Flight would be good, but all the flying mounts I can find are either small or large. Ideally I'd like something that fit ok with the 'sneaky' vibe of the character. (whisper gnome, weasels, etc etc)
The character's backstory places him as a stablehand/animal trainer for a large magical organisation/government, and we have a druid in the party to help me out, so finding and training the animal shouldn't be a major issue, but the DM is very unlikely to allow anything too 'far out' as a mount, or at the very least make it very difficult (to the point of not being worthwhile) for me to FIND the animal in the first place.
Question the Third - Is it worth taking improved familiar and combining familiar and mount into one handy package?
Question the Fourth - Ride and Handle Animal are of course, cross class skills for me. I've managed to keep Spellcraft and Concentration maxed out while still spending points here and there in Ride/Handle Animal, but would really prefer to be able to get more out of my spent skill ranks. Is there any way to make a cross class skill into a class skill?
Thanking playgrounders in advance. :smallbiggrin: