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Combat/Summoned Pets & Combat Mounts

This thread covers the stance taken on combat pets/summoned creatures. As always, consult the lore on if it has any specifics which may differ or change from this. This thread serves as a guide for general use for all things related to pets/mounts, mundane and magic. Unless otherwise specified within lore, this applies to all lorepieces and the world of LOTC. 

 

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Combat Pets/Summoning

Combat pets are animals/creatures that exist without summoning, often index entries that have been tamed by a character or “befriended” by something like a druid. Summoned creatures are a variant of combat pet that a magic has summoned, which typically can be done wherever/whenever depending on conditions of the caster. These are generally acceptable with lore, so long as they follow the “Dependent” structure of pet listed below.

 

Combat Mounts

Combat mounts are either combat pets designed to be a mount or a larger summoned creature with the same intention. In lore submissions, we require these mechanically function the exact same as a horse. As well, depending on size, they may not participate within combat in any form outside of riding/mobility.

 

Swarms

Swarms are generally ill-advised due to how difficult they may be to represent in lore. Thus, we advise they are generally avoided with lore submissions. However, if it is a must have for a lore piece, we advise swarms be as well defined and clear as possible, with relatively easy counters or little affect outside of annoyance or psychological damage. 

 

Independent vs Dependent

The primary issue with having combat pets or summoned creatures is when they are independent to the caster. This means that they do not need to be sustained by the character and are able to act without the character’s constant direction. For example, an Independent combat pet/summon would be one which acts on it’s own, while a Dependent combat pet relies on it’s caster to act.

 

 


 

 

Independent Combat Pets/Summons

Independent pets/summoned creatures are capped at the size of a standard wolf or dog. Anything larger may be tamed and befriended, but cannot under any circumstance be utilized within combat. A character may utilize one independent combat pet per combative encounter, as to prevent people with individual “Wolf Packs” or “Murder of Crows” as we’ve seen negatively used in the past. Pets should be based off of regular IRL animals that make sense to tame or lore creatures which allow taming. Claiming you have found/tamed an IRL variety of creature that is normally rare is entirely disallowed. 

 

Independent combat summons can be rather strong, and it is best advised that one has a heavy cost to summon or bring so to combat, as to even the playing field to be fair to both parties, while still interesting and having some advantage to having a combative pet at use.

 

 

Dependent Combat Pets/Summoned Creatures

Dependent summoned creatures within magics are advised to be no greater in size than an average descendant. Having a dependent summoned creature fight for you should have some kind of negative impact on the character while the creature/animal is still present, whether it be eating their focus so they are unable to fight themselves or draining their energy so they are incapable of doing much besides moving around. 

 

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