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Oct. 29th, 2006 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sillygoosegirlDire Bat, or Tiger? Hmmm... difficult decision.
A tiger would generally be a kick-ass mount or fighting companion in combat. The 3.5 Druid spell list, the share spell ability, and the fact that I have 1-2 feats that I can't spend on the meta-magic stuff that I'd want, both feel like they tend to point me toward mounted combat.
A dire bat, on the other hand, while probably not quite such a kick-ass battle mount as far as simple things like damage are concerned, does have some serious coolness going for it anyhow. First, of course, it flies. Second, it has ecolocation which would be useful for traveling at night (which my character will have been doing before joining the party) and seeing invisible pink unicorns and other enemies. Third, my character could ride on it's back (if she was like really light and minimalist on gear--11 lbs!). Fourth, it's a freaking DIRE BAT!
Unfortunately I do see one potentially big draw back to the dire bat... it's going to want to sleep during the day, and unlike the mage's owl, we can't exactly carry it around with us while it sleeps as it weighs about 200 lbs. Though Josh suggested the I get a cart and wild shape into a horse... which is certainly amusing and we could arguably make good time that way. Or maybe rotating your sleep schedule to match your Druid companion is just part of the drill if you are an Animal Companion.
A tiger would generally be a kick-ass mount or fighting companion in combat. The 3.5 Druid spell list, the share spell ability, and the fact that I have 1-2 feats that I can't spend on the meta-magic stuff that I'd want, both feel like they tend to point me toward mounted combat.
A dire bat, on the other hand, while probably not quite such a kick-ass battle mount as far as simple things like damage are concerned, does have some serious coolness going for it anyhow. First, of course, it flies. Second, it has ecolocation which would be useful for traveling at night (which my character will have been doing before joining the party) and seeing invisible pink unicorns and other enemies. Third, my character could ride on it's back (if she was like really light and minimalist on gear--11 lbs!). Fourth, it's a freaking DIRE BAT!
Unfortunately I do see one potentially big draw back to the dire bat... it's going to want to sleep during the day, and unlike the mage's owl, we can't exactly carry it around with us while it sleeps as it weighs about 200 lbs. Though Josh suggested the I get a cart and wild shape into a horse... which is certainly amusing and we could arguably make good time that way. Or maybe rotating your sleep schedule to match your Druid companion is just part of the drill if you are an Animal Companion.
