I am currently running TOA with a group of 4 players.
one of the players has asked if he can use the following rules to tame a dinosaur he can use as a mount. He is a beastmaster and currently has a dimetrodon as a companion.
Reading this it seems like it could get overpowering quite quick. I have tried searching the compendium but cannot see any ruling against doing something like this. What would you do?
First, and most probably the most important, I would tell the player asking me for something that they should never look at danddwiki for ideas of how rules might work. It's got no system of evaluation and regulation for the quality of the things presented there, and is more often than not generate by people who are deliberately making their personal favorite thing better than anything else in the book, hands down, because they think that is what is "fair".
Secondly, I would point out that I'm not going to require them to do any sort of extra effort training to have a creature that is a class feature of their character be a useful mount - they just need the creature to be large enough to support them according to the rules, and of a physical shape which is reasonable for a rider to be mounted upon.
If it is reasonable for a character to have a mount in the campaign at hand, I'm not going to make them jump through hoops to have one if they want one, not even if it is a dinosaur (assuming, of course, that dinosaurs actually exist in-setting and aren't wildly exotic creatures from far away or unexplored lands relative to where the character is supposed to be acquiring one to ride).
All I want to know is how much you would have to mutilate the Dimetrodon to have space for a saddle of some sort.
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I am currently running TOA with a group of 4 players.
one of the players has asked if he can use the following rules to tame a dinosaur he can use as a mount. He is a beastmaster and currently has a dimetrodon as a companion.
http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Animal_Training_(5e_Variant_Rule)
Reading this it seems like it could get overpowering quite quick. I have tried searching the compendium but cannot see any ruling against doing something like this. What would you do?
I would do two things in this situation.
First, and most probably the most important, I would tell the player asking me for something that they should never look at danddwiki for ideas of how rules might work. It's got no system of evaluation and regulation for the quality of the things presented there, and is more often than not generate by people who are deliberately making their personal favorite thing better than anything else in the book, hands down, because they think that is what is "fair".
Secondly, I would point out that I'm not going to require them to do any sort of extra effort training to have a creature that is a class feature of their character be a useful mount - they just need the creature to be large enough to support them according to the rules, and of a physical shape which is reasonable for a rider to be mounted upon.
If it is reasonable for a character to have a mount in the campaign at hand, I'm not going to make them jump through hoops to have one if they want one, not even if it is a dinosaur (assuming, of course, that dinosaurs actually exist in-setting and aren't wildly exotic creatures from far away or unexplored lands relative to where the character is supposed to be acquiring one to ride).
All I want to know is how much you would have to mutilate the Dimetrodon to have space for a saddle of some sort.
"Where words fail, swords prevail. Where blood is spilled, my cup is filled" -Cartaphilus
"I have found the answer to the meaning of life. You ask me what the answer is? You already know what the answer to life is. You fear it more than the strike of a viper, the ravages of disease, the ire of a lover. The answer is always death. But death is a gentle mistress with a sweet embrace, and you owe her a debt of restitution. Life is not a gift, it is a loan."