Challenge - Pick me a mount!

[Bex0r]

Pick a mount for my half-dragon (red) Magus. The coolest one wins a banana sticker!

Prerequisites such as alignment, feats, level, etc. are completely irrelevant. Third-party material welcome.

[Mithril Leaf]

Give me a size and type. I'll see what I can do.

[Sheogoroth]

Ashworm from Sandstorm(140).

2d6 strength Poison stinger attack, evasive burrow so it won't die from flying spells in the midst of combat.
HUGE carry capacity, 6,900 lb drag.

If you need to escape, you can always polymorph, hide in its stomach, and have it burrow.

[Narsis]

Ashworm from Sandstorm(140).

2d6 strength Poison stinger attack, evasive burrow so it won't die from flying spells in the midst of combat.
HUGE carry capacity, 6,900 lb drag.

If you need to escape, you can always polymorph, hide in its stomach, and have it burrow.

beat me to it. Ashworm get's my vote.

[XQNP]

Abyssal Drake (Draconomicon 145). They were originally bred as draconic mounts for demon princes, but proved too difficult to control. 150 ft fly speed, 2d6 con poison stinger, and a 10d6 breath weapon, half fire and half unholy damage. Though, admittedly, it may not be the easiest thing to control. I'd recommend planar binding.

[Igneel]

I always think about those Razorfeather birds from some MM or another...
Adamantine feathers that it can shoot and are considered keen, can use said feathers for arrows, has a shield-like effect, etc.

[White_Drake]

For fluff reasons I say Dire Phynxkin; half tiger, half dragon, all deadly.

[Invader]

The Corpse Terror

400+ hp

Land/Fly/Swim/and Burrow speeds <- The perfect mount

Energy Drain, SLA's, Spells, Crush, tail sweep, and a breath weapon

Blindsight 120ft, DR 30/+3 SR 39 and immune to sleep and paralysis

And the icing on the cake is that its a dragon which should be a perfect mount for a Half Dragon.

[gallagher]

A Centaur paladin who uses himself as his own special mount so he gets free stat bonuses

[deuxhero]

A skeleton Nightmare.

Loyal, fearless, obeys your every command, can fly, can planeshift you (funnily enough PF's undead templates don't axe SLAs, as they aren't under any of the categories that are lost but "spell like abilities")

[falloutimperial]

Anarchic Giant Lizard. The dungeon masters guide supplies the lizard, and anarchic is a cool template from the planar handbook.

[The Redwolf]

Rust monster, nobody will ever want to fight you, especially if you can enhance it with magic and/or magic items. Alternatively, for sheer awesome factor, something like a grizzly mastodon or battletitan.

Edit: I forgot there's an amulet that allows you to "ride" a gelatinous cube by protecting you with a magic bubble, getting eaten whole, and then directing it from the inside, do that.

[Morithias]

I always liked the Megaraptor. Nothing like riding a dinosaur.

[Gotterdammerung]

The Stoneflyer (pg 99 of The Underdark)

Advance it to 10hd (its maximum) then apply any templates you like.

It is trainable and meant to be a mount.

It has a land speed of 50 and a fly speed of 60 and it can use either speed to move/fly through the ground via earth glide.

Best part, it can take you with it along with gear up to a medium load via "earth glide rider" Supernatural ability.

Tremorsense 60
Low-light vision
Dark vision 60

DR 5/bludg
SR 13

Appearance: a winged wolf made out of stone.


P.S. If you have some way to manipulate creatures a good template to throw on it would be Tauric. If you can't manipulate creatures then it might get hard to convince tauric creatures to carry you.

You can use Stoneflyer as the base creature and Gloom (epic lvl handbook) as the base humanoid.

It will end up being a 35 hit dice monster with wicked abilities but only a CR 6!

13d6 sneak as rogue
Oppurtunist ability as rogue
Fear Gaze
Blind sight 60 ft
Quintessence (+20 racial move silently bonus)
SR 35
DR 25/+6
Shadowwalk at will
True strike at will

and a few more goodies all for a CR 6.

[killianh]

I always liked the Megaraptor. Nothing like riding a dinosaur.

Battletitan all the way in my eyes, or maybe a chronotyryn

[Killer Angel]

Rust monster Adamantine Horror, nobody will ever want to fight you,

Fixed. Here you are!

[crazyhedgewizrd]

Another party member, preferably the tank.

[Hyde]

Goblin powered war-palanquin.

As a half-dragon, intimidating the goblins into service should be rather easy.


If you're looking for something less ridiculous- you might could see about getting a retriever.

Wait, wait, no.

The Terrasque.

[supermonkeyjoe]

Elder evils has one of the NPCs riding a mount called Skyshadow, I can't remember what creature it's based on but it's essentially a demon-powered hoverbike.

Edit, here's the picture

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[Mithril Leaf]

A young adult Obsidian Dragon. Always fun to ride a dragon, and he's got all the movement types that matter. Maybe get it some deepdweller barding or something so it can breath underwater.

[Andvare]

Bah, enslave yourself a highlevel Master of Many Forms druid, and have him (or her, if that is more inline with your "preferences") be whatever you want.
Some people might say you are leaning a teenzy bit towards evil, but I think the Gods will ignore this one transgression, it is, after all, just a druid.

[Vizzerdrix]

Dwarven Battle Golem! The closest thing to power armor I've ever seen.

Or how about anything from Dragonmech? Like one of the walking cities?

[Uhtred]

The fearsome Guiffon! Head of a penguin, wings of an eagle, body of a lion. It has a fly speed AND a high swim speed in addition to sounding as though you have an adorable speech impediment every time you talk about him!

[togapika]

Frost lizard from the MM2 I think.

[That_guy_there]

Pick a mount for my half-dragon (red) Magus. The coolest one wins a banana sticker!

Prerequisites such as alignment, feats, level, etc. are completely irrelevant. Third-party material welcome.

Obviously the everyone missed the fact that the OP has removed restrictions.... so OBVIOUSLY your half dragon's mount needs to be a half dragon itself... a Half Dragon (red) Tarrasque!

[Mithril Leaf]

Alright, that's it. Pulling out all the stops now. Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto. Stack even more templates to taste. Toss phrenic and half-fey on there for some good abilities. Ignore even making it an effigy. Just have a beast templated to high heaven. I'd recommend starting with something good by itself, maybe a dragon. For the best wisdom, animals seem like the best choice.

[Invader]

Obviously the everyone missed the fact that the OP has removed restrictions.... so OBVIOUSLY your half dragon's mount needs to be a half dragon itself... a Half Dragon (red) Tarrasque!

Not everyone missed the fact and why a half dragon, go for a full dragon and the Tarrasque is overrated, can't fly, can't swim, can't burrow, plus since there's only one, as soon as everyone knows its out walking around scores of adventurers are going to come trying to kill it lol.

[Hyde]

GUYSGUYSGUYSGUYSGUYSGUYS


The Gazebo.

[deuxhero]

GUYSGUYSGUYSGUYSGUYSGUYS


The Gazebo.

No! Even better!

The darkness!

[crazyhedgewizrd]

How about this?

A stick ridig horse.