D&D: So Your Party Needs a Mascot – Here Are the Five Best Pets
Look every party needs an official mascot. Something with big eyes and boundless energy that symbolizes the party vibe.
D&D might be a game of fantasy adventure. But it’s really a game about adopting the weird little guys and weird big guys that you come across. Whether that’s goblins. Or gray renders. Sooner or later your party is gonna adopt something.
And that’s when you get yourself a mascot. If you’re going to do that, you may as well pick from the best. Here are five best buds to be any party’s banner.
Blink Dog
Let’s start with a classic. Blink Dogs are dogs from the Feywild who are lawful good. Absolutely every last one of these teleporting little doggos is among the goodest of boys. And on top of that, they’ve got Intelligence 10 and Wisdom 13, which might make them smarter than some of the party.
Combo that with the ability to magically teleport at random times? You’ve got a perfect mascot.
Chwinga
These are tiny little elemental spirits that live in plants, rocks, rivers, and other wild spaces. They are perfect weird little guys, they’re elementals who make everything around them more lush and vibrant. And to top it off, they are absolutely fascinated by humans and humanoids. Anyone that wears armor, uses tools, and even cooks, is a mystery to them.
They’re the perfect little curious mascot, and it’s built into their nature.
Cranium Rat
Rats are smart creatures who make for extremely loving friends. So take a rat’s natural loveliness and then layer in psionic abilities, like the ability to communicate telepathically? It just doesn’t get better than that. Unless you have a bunch of them, in which case they get even smarter and more powerful.
Flail Snail
It’s a snail. With a head like a flail. And a shell that naturally repels magic, or absorbs the spell and makes it into a burst of destructive force. Plus it can sort of hypnotize anyone coming near you with its scintillating shell.
Purple Worm
Taming one of these is basically the plot of Dune. But if you manage it, you’ve got the absolute best mascot. An unstoppable, all-devouring worm. Just try and keep it fed, though.
What’s your favorite pet?
