Mounts and Vehicles

General Information

A good mount can help you move more quickly through the wilderness, but its primary purpose is to carry the gear that would otherwise slow you down. The mounts and other animals table shows each animal’s speed and base carrying capacity.

An animal pulling a carriage, cart, chariot, sled, or wagon can move weight up to 5 × its base carrying capacity, including the weight of the vehicle. If multiple animals pull the same vehicle, they can add their carrying capacity together.

Mounts other than those listed here are potentially available, but they are rare and not normally available for purchase. These include flying mounts (garuda, pegasi, and similar animals) and even aquatic mounts (giant sea horses, for example). Acquiring such a mount often means securing an egg and raising the creature yourself, making a bargain with a powerful entity, or negotiating with the mount itself.

Barding: Barding is armor designed to protect an animal’s head, neck, chest, and body. Any type of armour shown on the Armour table can be purchased as barding. The cost is 4 × the equivalent armour made for humanoids, and it weighs twice as much.

Saddles:

A military saddle braces the rider, helping you keep your seat on an active mount in battle. It gives you Advantage on any check you make to remain mounted.
An exotic saddle is required for riding any aquatic or flying mount.
A riding saddle is used whenever a creature is wanting to ride a mount.
A pack saddle is used when the mount is simply carrying items. A creature riding a mount with only a pack saddle or without a saddle faces penalties if situations arise that might cause them to dismount.

Vehicle Proficiency: If you have proficiency with a certain kind of vehicle (land or water), you can add your Proficiency Bonus to any check you make to control that kind of vehicle in difficult circumstances.

Rowed Vessels: Keelboats and rowboats are used on lakes and rivers. If going downstream, add the speed of the current (typically 2km/h) to the speed of the vehicle. These vehicles can’t be rowed against any significant current, but they can be pulled upstream by draft animals on the shores. A rowboat weighs 50kg, in case adventurers carry it over land.

Mounts and Other Animals

Animal	Cost	Speed	Max. Capacity
Chocobo/Sleipnir, draft	50 gp	14m	270 kg
Chocobo/Sleipnir, riding	75 gp	20m	240 kg
Chocobo/Sleipnir, war	200 gp	20m	270 kg
Mastiff	25 gp	14m	97.5 kg
Nanna	15 gp	14m	210 kg

Tack, Harness, and Drawn Vehicles

Item	Cost	Weight
Barding	×4	×2
Bit and bridle	2 gp	0.5 kg
Carriage	100 gp	300 kg
Cart	15 gp	100 kg
Chariot	250 gp	50 kg
Feed - General	5 cp	2 kg
Feed - Gysahl Greens	20 cp	1 kg
Feed - Oats	20 cp	1 kg
Saddle - Exotic	60 gp	20 kg
Saddle - Military	20 gp	15 kg
Saddle - Pack	5 gp	7.5 kg
Saddle - Riding	10 gp	12.5 kg
Saddlebags	4 gp	4 kg
Stabling (per day)	5 sp	–
Wagon	35 gp	200 kg

Air/Waterborne Vehicles

Vehicle	Cost	Speed	Crew	Passengers (Private)	Cargo (tonnes)	AC	HP	Damage Threshhold
Airship, basic	20,000 gp	12 km/h	10	20 (4)	1	13	300	–
Galley	30,000 gp	6.5 km/h	80	–	150	15	500	20
Keelboat	3,000 gp	1.5 km/h	1	6	0.5	15	100	10
Longship	10,000 gp	5 km/h	40	150 (50)	10	15	300	15
Rowboat	50 gp	2.5 km/h	1	3	–	11	50	–
Sailing Ship	10,000 gp	3 km/h	20	20 (4)	100	15	300	15
Warship	25,000 gp	4 km/h	60	60 (12)	200	15	500	20

Mounted Combat

A Knight charging into battle on a Sleipnir, or a Black Mage casting spells from the back of a Chocobo all enjoy the benefits of speed and mobility that a mount can provide.

A willing creature that is at least one size larger than you and that has an appropriate anatomy can serve as a mount, using the following rules.

Mounting and Dismounting

Once during your move, you can mount a creature that is within 2m of you or dismount. Doing so costs an amount of movement equal to half your speed. For example, if your speed is 10m, you must spend 5m of movement to mount a horse. Therefore, you can't mount it if you don't have 5m of movement left or if your speed is 0.

If an effect moves your mount against its will while you're on it, you must succeed on a DC 10 WIS (Animal Handling) ability check or fall off the mount, landing

in a space within 2m of it. If you're knocked prone while mounted, you must make the same ability check.

If your mount is knocked prone, you can use your reaction to dismount it as it falls and land on your feet. Otherwise, you are dismounted and fall prone in a space within 2m.

Controlling a Mount

While you're mounted, you have two options. You can either control the mount or allow it to act independently. Intelligent creatures, such as dragons, act independently.

You can control a mount only if it has been trained to accept a rider. Domesticated horses, chocobos and similar creatures are assumed to have such training. The initiative of a controlled mount changes to match yours when you mount it. It moves as you direct it, and it has only three action options: Dash, Disengage, and Dodge. A controlled mount can move and act even on the turn that you mount it.

An independent mount retains its place in the initiative order. Bearing a rider puts no restrictions on the actions the mount can take, and it moves and acts as it wishes. It might flee from combat, rush to attack and devour a badly injured foe, or otherwise act against your wishes.

In either case, if the mount provokes an opportunity attack while you're on it, the attacker can target you or the mount.