Pennant Mount

Ultimate Equipment Guide II

Author Greg Lynch, J. C. Alvarez
Publisher Mongoose Publishing
Publish date 2005

The pennant mount can be built into a new saddle or added to an existing saddle. It consists merely of a metal tube attached to the back of the saddle, perfectly suited to holding a pennant pole. Using a pennant mount allows a mounted warrior to continue to fly his colours in the midst of combat. It offers significant advantages over the more traditional method of flying colours on the tip of a lance, or of maintaining a standard bearer to follow a warrior into battle, trying to survive the fray while holding a pennant pole high. A lance might be broken, or the pennant might come loose on a successful strike. Likewise, a standard bearer makes a tempting target for the enemy. Colours flying from a pennant mount, however, are as out of harm’s way as it is possible to be on a battlefield, and offer a tempting target to no one.

Pennant Mount: +5 gp to price of saddle; 1 lb.