Mounts (Especially Large Ones)

[Aldren]

In the past week alone, I've come across three different characters, run by three different players (assumedly), who are bringing mounts (especially large winged griffons and hippogriffs) into places they should not realistically be going (shops, underground mines and tunnels, ruins of buildings, underwater quest areas).

Please bear in mind that not only is this something discussed in most of the quests involving your characters receiving these mounts as a reward, this is something pretty unrealistic for your character to be accomplishing. If I were an enormous seven-foot tall bird-lion with a wingspan of 20+ feet, I would not want my master to drag me into a mining tunnel sized for dwarves. There is a point to suspending disbelief in order to better enjoy the game but there are exceptions that make realism an easy enough concept to accomplish through treating your animals how you should realistically be treating them.

These are my opinions solely but I believe is something to consider when RPing with your beasts of burden.

[Tyeslan]

Thank you for posting this, Aldren. I've seen it myself with various characters. It goes along with the just because you can, doesn't mean you should thought.

[Bronson]

I definitely agree. It's one of those things that aren't enforced by code, so you just have to hope people are doing right. On that note however, would it be possible to add code per room on what size can enter it? I'm aware this would take a lot of time, but it would prevent this from happening.

[Harroghty]

That (room size restriction) is possible, but not feasible on a grand scale.

In general, I patch holes whenever I see abuse of code in that fashion. Be it so simple as riding your horse into an inn or a winged tiefling strolling plain as day through a small village. I would far prefer that players police their own (via IC reactions) because making code changes to address little role-play faux pas just saps time that could be far better spent.

[Orplar]

I'd thought this mostly ran off the Honor code. Just because our coding 'lets' you do something doesn't mean that you should.