# Horses and Their Kin
*The Stable, Mounts, Barding, and Mounted Combat for Exodus NDS. Source: https://exodusnds.com/sourcebooks/the-stable/horses-and-their-kin*
The animals most riders will ever own. Every world with grass has some of these, under its own names.
The differences between them are what a buyer pays for. A Riding Horse and a Heavy Warhorse are the same Scale and the same Speed. One costs twelve times as much, because it will walk toward a spear.
##### Donkey
Ass, burro, moke
1
1
8
0
0 / 0
10
2 / 2 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1
20
80
Common
Equine, Light
Sure-Footed, Pack Animal, Temper 1
The cheapest animal that carries a load. It carries baggage or a small rider and will not carry an adult in armour. It goes where a horse will not and stops where it chooses.
##### Mule
Hinny, pack mule, sumpter
2
1
10
2
0 / 0
16
2 / 2 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 1
20
200
Common
Equine, Medium
Sure-Footed, Pack Animal, Steady, Temper 1
Stronger than a donkey and steadier than a horse. It is the pack animal of every army and the mount of people who value arriving. It ignores one step of the travel penalty for hills and mountains. **Temper 1** is stubbornness: it applies only to being driven into obvious danger.
##### Pony
Cob, hill pony, pit pony
1
2
9
1
0 / 0
10
2 / 2 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1
20
150
Common
Equine, Light
Small Mount, Hardy
A small, tough horse. It is the right mount for a small rider and a serviceable pack animal for anyone. A rider of ordinary size counts double against its Carry.
##### Riding Horse
Hack, palfrey, rouncey, saddle horse
2
2
11
2
0 / 0
16
3 / 2 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 1
30
300
Common
Equine, Medium
Swift, Temper 1
The ordinary horse of roads and farms. It is fast, willing, and frightened of nearly everything it has not met before. **Temper 1** is that fright.
##### Courser
Racer, hunter, hot-blood
2
2
10
1
0 / 1
12
3 / 3 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 1
35
900
Restricted
Equine, Light
Swift, Sprinter, Temper 2
A horse bred for speed and nothing else. It wins races and outruns pursuit. It is light-boned, highly strung, and poor at carrying weight.
##### Desert Horse
Barb, sand horse, dry-country horse
2
2
10
1
0 / 0
12
3 / 3 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 1
35
700
Restricted
Equine, Light
Swift, Enduring, Desert-Bred, Temper 1
A small, fine horse from dry country that keeps its pace for days. It treats desert as open country when travelling and needs water once a day in place of twice.
##### Draft Horse
Cart horse, plough horse, heavy horse
2
1
16
3
0 / 0
24
4 / 2 / 1 / 3 / 2 / 1
20
350
Common
Equine, Medium
Draft 2, Steady, Poor Combat Mount
- **Attacks:** Kick (Unarmed; Damage 6; Crit 3; Knockdown)
The biggest and strongest of horses, bred to pull. It is calm at work and counts as two animals in a team. It was never taught to fight: **Poor Combat Mount** adds 2 Bane Dice to Riding checks to control it in battle, and it will not charge.
##### Light Warhorse
Charger, hobby, lancer's horse
2
2
12
2
0 / 0
18
3 / 3 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 1
30
1500
Military
Equine, Medium
Battle-Trained, Swift
- **Attacks:** Trample (Unarmed; Damage 3; Crit 4; Knockdown)
A fast horse schooled for war: scouts, horse archers, and light lancers ride it. It carries a rider in mail and its own light barding.
##### Heavy Warhorse
Destrier, great horse, cuirassier's horse
2
2
15
3
0 / 0
28
4 / 2 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 1
25
3500
Military
Equine, Heavy
Battle-Trained, Shock Mount
- **Attacks:** Trample (Unarmed; Damage 4; Crit 4; Knockdown)
The knight's horse: strong enough for a rider in full plate, a lance, and plate barding of its own. It is a poor travelling animal and a worse pack animal, and a seller cares who is buying.
##### Mountain Horse
Garron, hill horse, sure-foot
2
1
12
2
0 / 0
18
3 / 2 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 1
25
400
Common
Equine, Medium
Sure-Footed, Hardy, Steady
A stocky, short-legged horse of high country. It is not fast. It ignores one step of the travel penalty for hills and mountains and does not lose its footing.
