So everyone agrees that Wolves are the mount of choice for goblins, right? If so, then what kinds of things would other short races like Kobolds, Gnomes, Dwarves, ect ride? Ponies seems like an obvious choice for Hobbits but is there anything else they could go for?
>Every race needs a unique mount
>These should be universal
I think you're moronic
>So everyone agrees that Wolves are the mount of choice for goblins, right?
Wrong.
This. Goblins are unnatural creatures. Wolves and other wildlife hate them, avoid them if they can, and attack them if they approach. And even if there are some unnatural creatures that could be used as mounts, goblins are normally too savage to domesticate those things.
Pathfinder started with wolf-riding goblins, who hated dogs because they thought dogs were a mockery of wolves, then they evolved into riding 'goblin dogs' (big rats with permanent mange that goblins are immune to), and hating wolves and dogs because wolves and dogs are a mockery of barghest.
>goblin cavalry on pronghorn-back hitting top speeds of 60 mph
need it.
>Ponies seems like an obvious choice for Hobbits but is there anything else they could go for?
Giant rabbits
hobbits can take ostriches.
Kobolds: dire gila lizards or dire gekos
Gnomes: dire badgers
Dwarves: dire goats
That wasn't a rule in OP's post
>um if you check the rulez I think you'll find—!!
yeah bro it's fine I'm just calling u dorky
Dorfs: a pair of trusty feet.
>kobolds
monitor lizards or crocodiles
>gnomes
>having gnomes
>dwarves
sheep
Dwarfs should be on Goats for the high mountain passes.
Also goats, like dwarfs are bearded, stubborn and bad tempered until you put some beer in them. Perfect match.
Dwarves being an underground race would have little in the way of a Mounted Culture, at most they'd have pack animals, or if they really needed a ride they'd just use ponies.
>Humans being a city race would have little in the way of a Mounted Culture, at most they'd have pack animals, or if they really needed a ride they'd just use ponies.
>Humans being a city race
Flagrantly untrue.
Yeah, city dwellers aren't human.
>So everyone agrees that Wolves are the mount of choice for goblins, right?
lol no. Goblins should have mounts that reflect their nature in whatever setting they are in. Wolves do not fit with the nature of goblins in D&D. Instead, do what PF does and give goblins something more in line with their nature as weird scavengers and chaotic little buttholes, a goblin dog. This large dog-like rat is used as a mount, guard animal, and pet. This particular animal also causes goblin pox, created from its nasty mange and dander, causing a terrible allergic reaction with irritating hives and festering sores in every humanoid race except goblinoids.
Dwarves in Pathfinder's Highhelm Mountain region use a special dwarven breed of mule called augdunars and domesticated giant lizards alongside mountain goats.
no you got that backwards anon, goblins are the ideal mount for wolves.
Someone (aka OP) has their mind permanently warped by Tolkien.
If you put a Dwarf on anything other than a war-mule, you're wrong. Those two stubborn buttholes deserve each other.
In-keeping with the idea that the Underdark is Fantasy Australia, Drow (who venerate and fear spiders far too much to ever try to saddle one, of course) should get to ride into battle on war emus. Frick the logistics of how they keep the Emus alive and fed underground, I want the last words I hear to be "G'day, c**t!" moments before my throat is replaced by a poisoned crossbow bolt.
I could see them use Mule Chariots, if only to pull artillery with.
Ogres might make good mounts,
For the sake of good faith, I will agree that capital-w Wolves are the mount of choice for lowercase-g goblins in whatever game you're talking about, without the understanding of which game it is and what the significance of those terms are in that game.
In equal good faith, I recommend looking in the rules for that very same game for where mounts for capital-k Kobolds, capital-g Gnomes, capital-D Dwarves, and lowercase-e ect are listed.
If none are listed, I assume the presence of goblins means it's a fantasy game (though a lowercased term isn't a keyword and could easily be a colloquialism in fluff, but the fact that Wolves have the demeanor and strength to be a mount also makes it fantasy anyway). Anyway, since it is likely a fantasy game, you can just create whatever mount for those termed beings you want. They could potentially go for any creature in the game as a mount.
>For the sake of good faith, I will agree that capital-w Wolves are the mount of choice for lowercase-g goblins in whatever game you're talking about, without the understanding of which game it is and what the significance of those terms are in that game.
I'd say meds, but autism is incurable.
>the point of the post is to demonstrate to OP that his inane question depends on the game because of factors that vary from game to game in terms of both lore and mechanics
>(You) hyperfocus on the first sentence and go "meds meds autism autism"
Fricking brainrot.
Whats the difference between a lowercase g goblin and an uppercase G Goblin?
Uppercase terms are generally keywords in games, whereas lowercase terms are just fluff or lore.
Keywords help understand a game's mechanics, especially when the game has its own glossary.
> Sovereign Citizen goblins
they ride donkeys that don’t listen and won’t move and they fall down when they try to pull them it’s very funny
I'd prefer dire rats who are arguably smarter than the goblins
>So everyone agrees that Wolves are the mount of choice for goblins
I don't remember agreeing to that.
Don't you remember? we all signed a waiver last week, it was in the company news letter.
in my setting:
goblins = wargs (bigger more hyena-like wolves)
humans = horses
elves = princess mononoke style elk creatures
dwarves = big mountain rams for travel, and specially bred big male boars for battle
hobbits = riding dogs and ponies
orcs = nothing really; horses rarely
saurians (lizardmen-lite) = nothing really; horses very rarely
kobolds = nothing in the desert; the volcanic ones have wyverns (which are smaller)
Kobolds ride dire weasels. Do you even read splats, or do you just post moronic threads on /tg/?
For me, it's boars or nothing. Boars are much more on theme for goblins than horses or wolves. Boars are predatory, cannibalistic, intelligent, and wicked tough for their size. A horse sized boar could simply chase down and eat enemies; functionally no different than a grizzly bear at that size.
tolkiens goblins rode intelligent wolves (wargs), so its a classic
boar seem more like an orc choice to me
though I ended up making boar the dorf choice since they're both tough, stubborn, and stocky
>Ponies seems like an obvious choice for Hobbits
Obviously giant roosters are the better choice. Warhammer had that one on lock
I think St. Bernards are the obvious choice.
Man, I want to finish writing my paleo fantasy setting just so I can have a group of people with dogs and say "these are the dog people". Imagine you have primitive shields and spears, imagine they have primitive shields and spears but also dogs, imagine what a powerful technology that is. Except it doesn't really feel like a technology because it runs more on the power of feelings. The dogs would hold the front line to protect their dudes but then the dudes would go berserk because you killed one of their dogs.
Tell me more about your cave grugs, they sound fun.
>So everyone agrees that Wolves are the mount of choice for goblins, right?
No.
Goblins screaming down hill on big sharp rock is best choice.
Spiders are also okay.
I feel wolves are the right mount for Amazons, you just know the reason