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Estiar@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
There’s a lot of hidden costs and infrastructure needed for magical flying beasts. Not to mention limited capacity. Little can compete with the horse drawn cart when it comes to capacity for price though.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 years ago
TheFriar@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Big horse killed my baby
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
They are opportunistic carnivores after all
ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Is that what Bojack Horseman is all about?
TheFriar@lemm.ee 2 years ago
No, my baby _loooved_heroin.
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 2 years ago
All magic comes with a price.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 years ago
What can I get for tree-fiddy?
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Well, it was about that time when I noticed that Rumpelstiltskin was about 8 stories tall and Crustacean from the Protozoic era…
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It just costs 1 gold coin a month…
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 years ago
I have giant hummingbird mounts in my game, but guess what? They need nectar from giant flowers, or just barrels full of sugar water, and/or they sometimes pick fights with giant insects in order to try and eat them. (Fun fact, hummingbirds eat small insects IRL) They’re dead useful and loads of fun, but it exacts it’s price.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I’m so very glad that I never tried to enlarge my pseudodragon familiar to try and ride him into battle. Never even thought about the fact that pseudodragons cannot pay attention for shit.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Big chocobo disagree with you
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Large chocobo is pretty neat but can’t compete with my spherical sheep mount
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 years ago
True
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Plus, not every species can be domesticated. Gryphons and dragons are independent and not herd animals. So they may not understand the concept of following a leader, which is an important part of domestication. And if they did, you’d probably have to best them in combat before they’d do it.
psud@aussie.zone 2 years ago
But you can talk to them and make friends with them
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 years ago
This assumes two things: That I am capable of making friends and that I would then not feel weird asking to ride on my new friend.
Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social 2 years ago
Is it not normal to ask if u can ride ur friend?
uis@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Estiar@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
I could never ask Fluttershy to haul things for me. At that point, I would start carrying things for her
uis@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Gladaed@feddit.de 2 years ago
This, but also for coal power in the 80s and 90s.
Cypher@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Boats beat out horse drawn carts by an insane amount.
It’s why trade hubs and major cities were practically always on a major river and/or in a favourable location for a port.
I find most campaigns severely lack river transportation
EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
Yep, not having a bunch of your trade going to feeding and caring for your horses makes a huge difference.
psud@aussie.zone 2 years ago
Boats can also move much more than a horse and cart. More than a pair of bullock even
cynar@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Someone’s never owned a boat.
There are 3 idioms that come to mind.
A boat is a hole in the water you pour money into.
A boat owner is only happy twice. When they buy a boat, and when they sell it.
“You don’t want to buy a boat. What you want is a friend with a boat!”
EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
A boat for personal use and a boat for trade use are two very different things.
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 years ago
For trading, boats have always been better in regards to the amount of stuff you can carry, even back before sails were invented. Also, unlike roads, water doesn’t need maintenance, it just needs to be at a high enough level that the boat won’t crash into rocks or whatever.