[PnP] Weight Challenged...

[Scott Adams]

At 08:11 PM 9/5/07, you wrote:
>Someone previously mentioned doing something with Clydesdales... As I understand it the various types of horse (i.e. Warhorse I, Warhorse II, etc.) represent different species.  Ergo doesn't the logic follow that the Warhorse IV is the Clydesdale?  That's what they were originally bred for after all and it's supposed to be the largest breed.  
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>As for horses for giants, a giant in P&P is so big that no naturally occurring horse could carry them.  When you can pick the animal up in one hand it just doesn't follow that you could possibly ride it regardless of how much weight it can handle.  That said, it is extremely plausible that some giant somewhere either made himself or forced a mage to make for him a breed of giant horses.  Such beats would be huge and nearly impossible for normal sized characters to ride.  Failing that the Wooly Mammoth mount idea isn't bad.  
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>Also, I think this whole thread started over someone looking for mounts for plus-sized characters.  Briefly mentioned under the animal portage table in Book 1 is a rule which allows for larger or superior specimens within each breed of horse.  A superior horse can carry (saddled weight + (2 x parenthesized value)) and costs twice as much.  If you want to go even further you could make a remarkable horse which costs 4x as much but also can add 4x the paren value to its capacity.  For a Warhorse IV that bumps you up to a 490lb carry weight.  Now if your character is bigger than that then he's just going to have to accept that no horse short of a magically created one will bear him.  It's one of the drawbacks picked up along with the advantages of being that big.
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All good points.  I recall in Dark Sun I think it was they have giants with mounts.  I don't run that universe as a GM but play it and have read a few of the books (novels won at conventionss only reason why I'd read them :)).  )   

I'll come up with something I'm sure.