FREQUENCY: Rare

FREQUENCY: Rare ([Cold Wilderness Mountains], [Cold Wilderness Hills])
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Cold Freshwater Surface])

FREQUENCY: Rare ([Temperate Wilderness Mountains])
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Temperate Wilderness Hills])
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Temperate Freshwater Surface])
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Temperate Saltwater Surface])

FREQUENCY: Rare ([Tropical Wilderness Mountains])
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Tropical Wilderness Hills])
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Tropical Freshwater Surface])
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Tropical Saltwater Surface])

NO. APPEARING: 2-16
ARMOR CLASS: 5
MOVE: 18"/36" (MC: C, D when mounted)
HIT DICE: 3+3 <(wings)>
% IN LAIR: 10% (rocky crags && similar places) (23 Hippogriffs: mountains or cliffs, TPL32:4th, REF4.57)
TREASURE TYPE: [Q] (x 5)
NO. OF AttACKS: 3 ~ 16
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-6/1-6/1-10
SPECIALATTACKS: Nil
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Nil
INTELLIGENCE: Semi-
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
SIZE: L
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: III | 60 + 4

SAVES: 13.14.15.16.16

Hippogriffs dwell only in places uninhabited by men, generally nesting on
rocky crags and similar places.

They are fierce fighters and will defend
themselves resolutely. As the hippogriff is an omnivore, it will never be
found with pegasi. Griffons will attack and eat hippogriffs on occasion.
The hippogriff is able to fight well with its two great fore claws and
powerful beak, however, and they are not easy prey. If encountered in
their lair (nesting area) they will attack immediately. There will be one
nest for every 2 creatures, each nest containing 1 or 2 eggs or fledglings.
Hippogriff eggs are valued at 1,000 g.p. each on the open market,
fledglings at 2,000 to 3,000 g.p..

Aerial Combat: 36", class C (class D when mounted).
Hippogriffs fight in much the same manner as griffons.

Riding.Airborne.Hippogriff.DMG: Hippogriffs are not so difficult to train as griffons,
but neither are they as dependable in a pinch.
A training process basically similar to that previously described will be necessary,
though occasionally an animal trainer can substitute for the master for short periods if he or she is tied up elsewhere.
Once broken, hippogriffs may possibly serve more than one master.
They are omnivores, and thus somewhat less expensive to feed thon griffons.

Gundwynd

NORMAL LOAD: 400#
MAXIMUM LOAD: 600#
MOVE RATE: 18 miles per half-day
MC: D
STAMINA: 15 turns aloft, 3 turns rest

Bombay wrote:
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...
Looking at the DMG/MM it appears that in a nest of Hippogriffs there will be 1-2 Fledglings.
We were trying to come up with how many might be breed in a controlled enviroment compared to the wild. Questions have come up with "How many would she lay", "How many times a year might she lay Eggs", "How long would it take for those born, to be at the age they themselves can be breed". Has anyone in your campaigns done such? Could you give any further insights into something like this?
 
 

Not an LA game question, but I;ll answer it anyway--off the top of my head as someone that raised ho9rses for a few years>

Assume that a hippogriff is rather like a horse, so one clutch of eggs per year is the maxumum. In captivity, breeding success will be around 50%--the creature is not meant for domestication.

On average for each mare there will be one and a half hippigriff chick-foals every other year, so three of them in four years.

Maturity, and thus capacity to be treained as a mount for a foal is five years.
The useful working life of a hippogriff c. 12 years.

Cheers,
Gary
 

Mr. Reaper wrote:
Gary, you should have referred him over to Tim Kask, heh :wink:

(second part of this post)
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewt ... 867#457867
 

Heh...

I had forgotten Tim's lengthy treatis on hippogriffs...and the gag about a dwarf in horse barding.
The latter cracked up up many a time back in those halcyon days.

I had to laugh at Tim's description of the fanazines, their contributors and quality of the material therein.
Most of the mental midgits that berate me for what I wrote about their material are irate that I dared to respond to their drivvel and do so with far more effect that their drek.
I did indeed take considerable joy in using a battle axe, not a rapier, when responding to their sophomoric attacks.

Cheerio,
Gary