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** The third-party D&D setting book ''Nyambe: African Adventures'' follows the lead of the ''[[Saga of the Exiles]]'' and includes chalicothere mounts. Here, however, it's clearly stated that they require special saddles.
* Likewise, ''[[Rifts]]'' features just about everything, from [[Cool Horse]]s to Dinosaurs to giant beetle-like monsters to bears and even giant chickens (Fun Fact: Cossacks refuse to ride the giant chickens). Plus [[Mechanical Horse|Robot and Cybernetic horses]]. ''Magic'' robot horses, too. Some species, such as Psi-Ponies and Blood Lizards, can even be chosen as player characters.
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' has tons of these: cyber-horses, boars, cyber-boars, giant lizards, daemons that look like weird worms, flies or metal rhinos...
** Just the beasts [[Redshirt Army|Imperial Guard]] Rough Riders use: Krieg Steed (hairless genetically modified horse), Mukaali (reptilish camel-emu thing), Kashann ride hunting lizards ("have a hide thick as a flak vest and a bite that'll take your arm off"), Gantor Rough Riders have some raptor-like spiky lizard, bold enough to be used against Tyranids. The Savlar Chem-Dogs (a regiment taken from the inmates of a [[Polluted Wasteland|toxic nightmare]] of a prison planet) include Chem-Riders who tend to saddle up bizarre, vile-looking mutant critters, Emperor knows what, there isn't even name given for them.
*** In addition, the chief source of meat in the Imperium is the Grox - a large, moderately ill-tempered lizard-like creature prone to stampeding anyone who doesn't get a hint and leave its pasture. It's occasionally used as a mount, though more often
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** Space Wolves sometimes ride Fenrisian Wolves.
** The Kroot ride raptor-like Knarloc, sometimes Great Knarloc and Krootox (knuckle-walking devolved Kroot the size of a rhinoceros). In the latter two cases the mount also carries on its shoulders a heavy gun (or a huge crossbow with explosive arrows).
** The Orks have squiggoths - much like squigs (that are made mostly of toothy maw and viciousness), but large enough to ride... in a howdah.
▲** As usual it's overshadowed in the [[Rule of Cool|over-the-top]] department by its sci-fi brother, but ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' Fantasy also has a variety of fantasy mounts, including wolves, boars, giant spiders (pony-size), gigantic spiders (rhino-size), cold ones (featherless giant velociraptors), pegasi, sauropod dinosaurs, griffons, woolly rhinoceros', small carnasaurs, various sorts of daemonic mounts (including the metal rhino ones), and naturally, dragons.
* In ''Warzone'', some human soldiers ride on horse-sized bipedal dinosaurs/lizards in the jungles of Venus.
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