# About This Book

*The Stable, Mounts, Barding, and Mounted Combat for Exodus NDS. Source: https://oldwest.exodusnds.com/sourcebooks/the-stable/about*

Seventy-one mounts of land, air, and water: horses of ten kinds, camels and elephants, riding bears and raptor-runners, pegasi and wyverns, hippocampi and sea serpents, and the breeds of one whole world. With them: twelve kinds of barding and its fittings, nineteen pieces of tack, howdahs, and chariots.

**A mount is a second character the rider is responsible for.** It has its own Wounds, its own temper, and its own opinion about fire. This book gives every mount one stat line that says how big it is, how fast it goes, what it carries, and what armour it can wear, and one set of rules for riding it into a fight and getting it home.

*This book stands alone.* It supplies what the Exodus NDS core rules leave to a Universe: riding, mounted combat, flying and swimming mounts, training, upkeep, and barding. It is the companion to **The Armourer** for what the animal wears, and to **The Fantasy Armory** for what the rider carries. It requires only the core rules.

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## Credits and Notices

**The Stable**
An Exodus NDS Sourcebook
First Edition
© 2026 Kaosweaver, Inc. All rights reserved.

**Credits**
Writers and editor: Paul Davis
Layout: [Homebrewery](https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/)

**Rules.** This book is a rules supplement for the *Exodus NDS Core Rules*, which are open under the ORC License. The supplement itself is not open: it is © 2026 Kaosweaver, Inc. Where it repeats a core rule, only the rule as written in the Core Rules is open.

**Copyright.** The text, setting, names, characters, tables, stat blocks, layout, and trade dress of this book are © 2026 Kaosweaver, Inc., and so are its artwork and maps to the extent the law protects them. The claim covers how things are written and drawn. It does not claim ideas or methods of play. Nothing here limits a right the law gives you, such as quoting for a review.

**Trademarks.** *Exodus*, *Exodus NDS*, and the Kaosweaver, Inc. dragon logo are trademarks of Kaosweaver, Inc.

**Use at your table.** Print it, copy it, play from it, and share the unmodified book with friends. **Making something with it?** Just ask. To publish, sell, stream for money, translate, or build a supplement, adventure, video, or fan project on this book's setting, names, characters, or art, ask first at [exodusnds.com/license](https://exodusnds.com/license). Kaosweaver, Inc. is generous with permission and usually asks no fee. We do not allow wholesale copying or passing the work off as someone else's.

**Animals in the game.** The animals in this book are game pieces in a story. Their numbers are simplified for play, and nothing here is advice on the keeping, riding, or training of any real animal.

Icon imagery uses [Lucide](https://lucide.dev), Copyright (c) 2026 Lucide Icons and Contributors, licensed under the ISC License. The full license text is printed in the Licensing chapter.

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