Mounts & Vehicles

A good mount helps you move quickly through the wilderness and primarily carries 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 vehicle can move weight up to five times its base carrying capacity, including the vehicle's weight. If multiple animals pull the same vehicle, they can combine their carrying capacities.

Other mounts, like flying creatures (pegasi, griffons) or aquatic mounts (giant sea horses), are rare and typically not for sale. Acquiring such mounts often involves securing an egg and raising the creature, 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 armor shown in the Armor table in this chapter can be purchased as barding. The cost is four times the equivalent armor 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 to remain mounted. An exotic saddle is required for riding any aquatic, flying, or other suitably unique mount.

• 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 vehicle in difficult circumstances.

• Rowed Vessels: Keelboats and rowboats are used on lakes and rivers. When going downstream, add the speed of the current (typically 3 miles per hour) to the speed of the vehicle. These vessels can’t be rowed against any significant current but can be pulled upstream by draft animals on the shores. A rowboat weighs 100 pounds for adventurers carrying it over land.