Dungeon Pets as Steeds

Dungeon Pets as Steeds

A number of Dungeon Pets are cute and cuddly creatures small enough to hold in your arms or ride on your shoulders. But Dungeon Pets don't have to be small creatures. They can be large enough to ride on, to use as steeds. In the last two weeks, I draw two new monsters for my weekly Monster drawings that fit into this category and I wanted to share.

The Water Horse

How often has your adventurer bought a horse and rode it out to the middle of nowhere, tied it up to a tree or bush and entered a dark dungeon, only to return and find that some monster has come along and eaten your steed as a mid-day snack? Too often I say.

The Dungeon Pets: Water Horse is a steed like no other. Just like any horse, you can ride your water horse out into the unknown seeking fortune. However, y=once you find a dungeon to explore you can pull out the Water Horses special container and say the command word. Upon this command, the Water Horse will retreat into its vessel, where it will remain until summoned again. No longer will you return from searching a dungeon laden down with loot to find that you ave to leave some of it behind because you no longer have a horse to help carry the treasure back to town. With a simple command, the Water Horse will pour out of its container, ready to be of use to its master again.

Forest Hound

Maybe Horses are not your preferred mode of transportation, Maybe where you will be journeying will be too difficult for a horse to traverse with ease, slowing your progress down to a crawl. The Forest Hound, an element-kin of the earth plane, is a great pet option for traveling through difficult terrain. This large dogged beast won't allow pesty undergrowth, dense foliage, or troublesome footing slow down it and its owner. It will ignore all these difficulties as if they don't exist so that its owner can get to the dungeons and ruins as soon as possible.

Hex Chicken

This colorful fowl with a small saddle on its back is not only easy to transport in its normal small size but also can be commanded to grow into a larger size so that the owner can ride it like any other steed. The little magic saddle that comes with all of these Hex Chicken will shrink and grow with the chicken, giving the owner a comfortable seat for those long rides.


You can check out the Kickstarter Campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/black-pyramid/dungeon-pets