MRPG Mounts
Various rideable creatures exist in the Mage Wars RPG universe. Some must be tamed(or pre-tamed versions can be bought from venders) others are etherial or magical and must be purchased from vendors or found as loot.
Mounts are available to characters at all levels. Etherial or purchased mounts may have minimum level requirements.
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Equipment
Regardless of species, every mount will require both a saddle and a bridle. A mystical "mount bag"(Note: Find a better name for this later) allows the animal to be placed into the owners inventory.
Various other accessories are available, such as shoes to increase speed, and saddle bags to provide a little more storage. Some of the bridles may improve attack power.
Regular Mounts
Horses are the most common but a wide variety will exist. A normal, basic mount must be captured and trained or purchased from a breeder. The mount will follow the player around and wait patiently outside of dungeon.
Etherial Mounts
Etherial mounts actually come as items by default but take up very little inventory space. They do not need be fed or otherwise cared for and are always loyal. However, they cannot melee.
Flying Mounts
While technically available at all levels, a flying mount will be very difficult to obtain early in the game, and progressively easier as the player advances. Flying mounts are more difficult to train initially but easier to maintain, and ethereal mounts are also available. Flying mounts are typically faster than the bottom-tier of skyships but cannot fly indefinitely.
Unlike ground-bound mounts, some flying mounts will be able to use ranged attacks for the purposes of aerial combat. Though these will appear as spells, for the purposes of combat the creature will use Weapon Proficiency, Ranged.
Mounted Combat
(Note: See MPNP Combat Instances and Rounds for combat details).
Being on horseback(or llamaback, turtleback, etc) will allow you to move and attack using your mount's speed stat(this goes for whatever that stat is). Characters are unable to melee attack from horseback unless their weapon size is Medium or above. Characters using ranged weapons may attack regardless of size.
Mounts also melee. Every mount is considered to have Weapon Proficiency, Empty-Hand and makes regular attack rolls. In PnP, the player decides when his mount attacks. In the MMO, the mount will just attack as quickly as it can.
