<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=334821.msg15938788#msg15938788">Quote from: pdragon on 01-08-2021, 21:35:48</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">You know instead of piling on more expenses than you know we can afford, you could just say no.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>So I didn't say no.<br/><br/>In fact I said the opposite of it but living things, particularly pets and mounts come with a cost.  That cost is usually reserved for people/characters that have some coin to spare.  Adventurers usually have coin to spare as well but your party isn't even that quite yet.  There's plenty of time to get mounts.  Even outlandish ones that don't fit the setting.  Even inconvenient ones that are going to be work for you to own and stable when you're not using them.  If you can't afford the additional costs that come with owning something (like an animal) then maybe there's an opportunity to reconsider the purchase of a mount.<br/><br/>You could also use skills to lower the asking price.  You could also use roleplaying out something clever to get the mount.<br/><br/>But it sounds like you have already made up your mind.<br/><br/><br/><br/>More of a concern is this...<br/><br/>1 - It's not lost on me that a bison was settled on by the two of you considering the low-grade controversy around it and some starting campaigns having having a herd of bison to deal with because the PCs bought them all up using the Rules As Written clause.  50 gold for a 5 hit dice / CR 4 mount/pet is broken.  Anyone who is not trying to "win" would recognize that.  I know this because my friends and I would have done something like this as well.  Of course we were in sixth grade at the time but so it goes.<br/><br/>2 - Your tone.   It could be that the medium leaves a little to be desired and what you wrote isn't laden with the truculent tone it appears to.  But it sure seems that way.  The good news is that you can do the following.  You can change your tone or you can change the game you're writing in.<br/><br/>