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Thread: Mounts for Frost Giants?
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2007-04-05, 02:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Mounts for Frost Giants?
Hi, I need a cold-climate animal that acts as a suitable mount for Giants. This is needed not neccessarily for any whacked-out PCs I'll be playing anytime soon, but for the writing of my campaign world's history.
A note on prerequisites: This will have to be a huge animal with a decent Move Speed. White Dragons would be nice, but Dragons take a long time to breed, so they might be out of the hypotetical question.
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2007-04-05, 02:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mounts for Frost Giants?
Something like this, maybe?
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2007-04-05, 02:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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*Looks at the Mammoth Rider*
By The Gods! That's Exactly What I Want To Look Like!
Seriously though, got anything less....extinct?Thank you, Devil's Advocate for sending me this link so I can finally erase my old signature!
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2007-04-05, 02:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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As DM, nothing has to be extinct if you don't want it to be.
Wasn't there a Frost Worm somewhere? I know it exists, but not what book it is in.
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2007-04-05, 02:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-04-05, 02:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mounts for Frost Giants?
What about a Winter Wolf, advanced to 10-18 HD? Size H, 50' move, seriously badass (as Xykon would say) appearance, close enough typical alignment.
(And I understand what you mean about the "extinct" thing. Fantasy creatures are one thing, but resurrecting real extinct creatures gives the campaign a certain...feel, because they resonate with our images of prehistory, that you might not want.)My latest homebrew: Gastrus
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2007-04-05, 03:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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A tarrasque? A cold one?
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2007-04-05, 03:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mounts for Frost Giants?
Tlalusks (from Frostburn) I believe even mention they are often used by Frost Giants.
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2007-04-05, 03:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-04-05, 03:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Don't Remorhazes breathe frost and that sort of thing?
I think they're intelligent, though.
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2007-04-05, 03:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Remorhazes also have super-hot bodies. Not an ideal mount for a frost giant.
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2007-04-05, 03:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-04-05, 04:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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I know you said you were looking for something less extinct... but, seriously, the Megaloceros Giganteus (Irish Elk) are awesome... just imagine dour frost giants riding huge antlered herbivors across a snowstorm-scoured frozen wasteland... snowblinded adventurers caught unawares by twlve-foot-spanning antlers!
I think there are rules for them in frostfell or somewhere.The reason we have ten fingers and only two eyes, is that we may type more and read less.
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2007-04-05, 04:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-04-05, 04:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, giant rams would be kinda cool.
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2007-04-05, 04:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Thoughtbot360; 2007-04-05 at 04:37 PM.
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2007-04-05, 04:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Frost Worms work as well, and are rather nifty in their own regard.
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2007-04-05, 04:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-04-05, 04:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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I have to put into another vote for mastadon/mammoths. Creatures built like them under creative names like [Generic Noun or Adjective][Random Verb]er are in Frostburn, MMII/III, and a couple other places.
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2007-04-05, 04:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-04-05, 05:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-04-05, 06:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Thoughtbot360; 2007-04-05 at 06:09 PM.
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2007-04-05, 06:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Manual of the Planes has a cold elemental template that could be added to a favorite huge monster...
**PRESTO**
You now have a mount for your giants.A silent knight is better than a holey knight.
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2007-04-05, 07:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Belkar's Bad to the Bone.
Dispossible a fetter hein and bemay kine a sinder's tock.
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2007-04-05, 07:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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I can't imagine a polar bear, dire or not, being very happy with someone riding it.
Although, I suppose in a D&D world full of monsters, they'd not be top of the foodchain and might be more docile.
Ride a giant walrus. Put it on a big skateboard for speed.
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2007-04-05, 07:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mounts for Frost Giants?
For something also cool-looking but slightly less, er, predatory, you could also advance a Dire Boar, and make it shaggy and white.
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2007-04-05, 08:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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just make your frost giant all monks, then they can outrun horses.
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2007-04-05, 08:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-04-05, 08:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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There's also the Dire Rhinoceros out of the Fiend Folio (why it's in there, I'll never know).
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2007-04-05, 08:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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I, personally, like the idea of a Cauchemar Nightmare, flipped over otemphasize cold instead of fire. Frosty hooves instead of flaming ones, and a snowblinding effect instead of smoke.
Last edited by Annarrkkii; 2007-04-05 at 08:34 PM.
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