Friday, May 8, 2020

Motorcycle Tortoise?

I am, next month, learning to ride a motorcycle. I have wanted to do this since I was a child. I have been playing the Pathfinder RPG for a long time and they have an archetype for the alchemist called a construct rider. It allows for a mechanical (aka motorcycle) druid animal companion mount. A druid animal companion could be a tortoise…


Tortoise Animal Competition

SourcePRG:B4
STARTING STATISTICS
Size Medium; Speed 10 ft.; AC +6 naturalAttack bite (1d4); Ability Scores Str 14, Dex 8, Con 16, Int 2, Wis 13, Cha 9; SQ low-light vision
7TH-LEVEL ADVANCEMENT
Size Large; Speed 10 ft.; AC +8 naturalAttack bite (1d6); Ability Scores Str +4, Dex –2, Con +2; Bonus Feat Great Fortitude

As for the Construct Rider: A construct rider assembles a construct mount shaped like a riding animal. … The GM may approve other animals as mounts.

This construct mount acts in most ways as a druid animal companion, using the character’s alchemist level as his effective druid level. A construct mount is a construct, but uses the appropriate animal companion’s statistics, gaining Hit Dice, skills, feats, and Strength and Dexterity adjustments as the alchemist advances in level. A construct mount has no Constitution score, and instead gains bonus hit points appropriate for a construct of its size. It has an Intelligence score (and skill points), a lower base attack bonus, and better saving throws than a normal construct of its HD. The mount has all the immunities of a construct (except immunity to mind-affecting effects, since it has a mind). A construct rider can use Craft (alchemy) instead of Handle Animal for all purposes involving his construct mount, though the check still takes a –5 penalty due to the construct mount’s unusual nature.

To create a construct with a mind and body that are constantly changing and improving, the construct rider must manufacture vast quantities of clockwork or animating reagents. As such, the construct rider can never gain the mutagen or cognatogen ability, even from a discovery or another class. ... Since I do not like to use the mutagen class ability I feel this is a bonus.

I have been playing with the idea of my Occult Detective having a motorcycle like this but then I felt inept in the fact that I basically knew almost nothing about riding a motorcycle. I thought my Mother would not approve. When I told her a few days ago that I was taking the Basic Rider course at Hudson Valley Community College. She said that she had wanted to learn to ride a motorcycle but then I came along. Perhaps more on this as another time...

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