Want to make the horse-buying process something more than just subtracting gold pieces from a character sheet? Have a player who simply MUST know what kind of selection the horse trader has for sale? Has it ever occurred to you that the characters’ mounts are NPCs too? If so and you don’t know where to start, download this incredibly helpful PDF that I cobbled together from diverse sources such as Wikipedia and various game supplements. It’s one of the goodies I keep close at hand in my referee binder for just such occasions. Random tables are provided to make horse trading fun again!
Want to know more about horses? Consult your local library or listen to seminal Patti Smith album of the same name:
7 comments:
I love this kind of stuff. Printed and stuck in GM's folder.
I haven't taken horses for granted since the monk Tripitaka's horse suddenly turned out to be a speaking immortal spirit bound into animal form in the 3rd season of Monkey (a Japanese TV retelling of Journey To The West). Thereafter he appeared sometimes as a horse and sometimes as a man. It was a grand coup.
Very cool! The quirks remind me of the vaquero term "pajarero", which literally means "birder" in Spanish, that describes a horse that is always spooked by birds flying out of the underbrush.
I like being able to give some personality to the mounts, a la Shadowfax or Poor Old Bill.
At the risk of being accussed of self-plugging, you could also read this article on my blog
http://dangerousbrian.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-every-gamer-needs-to-know-about.html
One of my favorite characters was a horse trainer in a GURPS-esque home brew. The System allowed you to spend XP to improve companions and followers, so eventually my characters main horse was a much more useful character then my PC.
Thats one of the best short freebies I've ever seen for Old School D&D
Kudos!
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