Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Never any Horses in D&D crpgs

Heheh well cats are cool! I'm all for more feline camp familiars, and not pissing off Bastet lol

I just want to look at the BG3 EA the way my rescue ranger looks at grass
or the way she looks at Mr. Ed, of course, of course
But instead its more like the look she gives when its raining outside... heheh

My Dog

Fun article from a few years back
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/29464691_Dogs_make_us_human

Horses were the last domestication partnership, well after the hound dog and the honey bee and all the rest. It was comparatively recent and the effects were sweeping and undeniable. They're all over our earliest myths and at the dawn of history wherever they rode in and kicked shit up. The point about the Americas is interesting, you can see how dramatic the introduction of the horse was for altering pretty much everything about how humans behave just from the more recent examples. Once humans figured out the saddle and how to charge at speed, it upended everything at a gallop. Trying to imagine a medieval themed fantasy game world without them takes a lot of extra energy and mental gymnastics hehe. I don't know, they certainly gave us a cow at Candlekeep. I'd like to see a charger and a mule plotline like Apuleius with cult mystery comedy.

ps. speaking of cats and dogs though, I wish the game approached the "find familiar" and "animal companion" thing in a way that was a bit more engaging than just a regular random summons or a couple cutscenes at camp. As a wizard it'd be cool to choose between rolling with like say a fat orange tom, or a classic black Egyptian, or maybe a few different options to customize through dialog. A sub-creation screen similar to the "who do you dream of" to determine the look of our animal companions in other ways would be awesome. I'd like as a ranger (or anyone really) to have a dog or wolf I could name. Or for dogs to have a Mastiff or a Shepard or Hound. Stuff like that. Some stuff that doesn't need to be all druid involved, but more classic town for the regular animals. Questlines too. For the birds Mellencamp the chicken was pretty classic hehe.

A stronghold with a barn would be rad. They could play up animals and their interactions, or have factions of their own like with the shadow angle. I can imagine how the game might do some lip service without having to create a ton of new mechanics. But I would certainly like at some point to be able to charge into the fray on horseback at higher levels, but I'm sure it gives their animators night mares lol