> > And I think that the power of the
> >BHT lies in the Mounts NOT in the Riders. Reading up on their too-
too
> >brief entry in HW:RPiG is enlightening - I really think the Riders
are
> >more superfluious than a player character might to admit.
>
> I played in a (admittedly very early HW playtest, and an ad
> hoc bit of fun not anything to be taken very seriously) game that
> Robin Laws ran on the last day of one of GloranthaCon in LA in
which
> we played Black Horses as PCs, and the riders were followers. I
> recall the horses going through riders at rather a quick rate.
> Cheers
> David
I got to play in this as well (though not with Robin running it).
Very strange adventure. It really did prove the use of followers in
HW (the riders).
It may not have been canonical but it was fun as all heck.
Jeff