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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aulirophile" data-source="post: 5436097" data-attributes="member: 86312">Worth noting that the mount rules in the DMG are almost entirely errata'd.MountsSize: Your mount must be larger than you.Adjacent: You must be adjacent to a creature to mount it.Willing: You can use a creature as a mount only if it is willing.Saddles:  The rules assume that you ride a creature with a saddle. If you lack a  saddle, you take a -2 penalty to attack rolls, AC, and Reflex defense  while mounted.Mounted Combat: Anyone can simply ride along with a  beast of burden without using the Mounted Combat feat. The Mounted  Combat feat allows you to make the most of a mount’s abilities. When you  have the Mounted Combat feat and you ride a creature, you gain access  to any special mount abilities it confers to its rider. (Not every  creature has these abilities.) While you are riding a creature with  Mounted Combat, the creature can make any Athletics, Acrobatics,  Endurance, or Stealth checks using your base skill check bonus rather  than its own if yours is better.Mount and Rider<img src="http://www.wizards.com/dndinsider/compendium/images/bullet.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />    Space:  The rider and mount both occupy the mount’s space. However, the origin  squares of the rider’s powers and other effects do not change to the  mount’s size. Whenever the rider uses an effect that has an origin  square (such as a melee, a ranged, an area, or a close power), the rider  first picks where that square is located in the mount’s space, and the  effect uses that origin square. For example, if a Medium rider uses a  close burst attack power, the rider chooses a single square within the  mount’s space, and the burst emanates from that square. This rule means  that if the burst targets each creature within it, rather than each  enemy, it can hit the mount.<img src="http://www.wizards.com/dndinsider/compendium/images/bullet.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />    Targeting  the Mount and Rider: Even though the mount and rider occupy the same  space, they are still separate creatures and are targeted separately.  For example, an attack that targets only one creature can target either  the mount or the rider, not both. In contrast, area and burst attacks  can affect both mount and rider, since the two are in the same space.<img src="http://www.wizards.com/dndinsider/compendium/images/bullet.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />    Mount  Benefits: Many mounts offer special attacks or benefits they can use or  grant to their riders. These abilities range from flat bonuses, such as  an AC bonus to the rider, to special attacks that the mount can use.  The Monster Manual details the benefits that many creatures grant if the  rider meets a minimum level and has the Mounted Combat feat. If the  rider doesn’t meet a mount’s prerequisites, he or she can ride it but  doesn’t gain the mount’s special benefits.<img src="http://www.wizards.com/dndinsider/compendium/images/bullet.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />    Provoking  Opportunity Attacks: If the mount’s movement provokes an opportunity  attack, the attacker chooses to target either the mount or the rider,  since the two of them move together. However, if the mount or the rider  provokes an opportunity attack by using a ranged or an area power, the  attacker must target whichever one of them provoked the opportunity  attack.<img src="http://www.wizards.com/dndinsider/compendium/images/bullet.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />    Forced  Movement: If the mount is pulled, pushed, or slid, the rider moves with  it. If the rider is pulled, pushed, or slid and the mount isn’t, the  rider can have the two of them move together. Otherwise, the rider is  dismounted and falls prone in the destination space of the forced  movement.<img src="http://www.wizards.com/dndinsider/compendium/images/bullet.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />    Teleportation:  If either the mount or the rider is teleported, the other does not  teleport with it. If the mount is teleported without the rider, the  rider is dismounted and falls prone.Mounts in Combat<img src="http://www.wizards.com/dndinsider/compendium/images/bullet.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />    Mount (Move Action): The rider mounts a creature adjacent to it and enters its space.<img src="http://www.wizards.com/dndinsider/compendium/images/bullet.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />    Dismount (Move Action): The rider dismounts, moving from the mount’s space to a square adjacent to it.<img src="http://www.wizards.com/dndinsider/compendium/images/bullet.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />    Initiative:  The mount and rider act on the rider’s initiative count, even if the  mount had a different initiative before the rider mounted it. The two  continue to act on the same initiative count after the rider dismounts. A  monster and its mount have separate turns, whereas an adventurer and  his or her mount have a single turn. <img src="http://www.wizards.com/dndinsider/compendium/images/bullet.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />    Actions  (Adventurers Only): An adventurer and his or her mount have one  combined set of actions: a standard action, a move action, and a minor  action. The player chooses how the two creatures use the actions on the  adventurer’s turn. Most commonly, the mount takes a move action to walk  or fly, and the adventurer takes a standard action to attack. The  adventurer and the mount also share a single immediate action each round  and a single opportunity action each turn. If the adventurer dismounts,  the two still share one set of actions on that turn, but have separate  sets of actions thereafter.<img src="http://www.wizards.com/dndinsider/compendium/images/bullet.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />    Mount  Attacks: The mount takes a -2 penalty to attack rolls unless the rider  has the Mounted Combat feat. While not being ridden, a typical mount  (such as a riding horse) rarely attacks on its own, unless it has been  trained for battle, is defending itself, or feels unusually protective  of its rider. Left to its own devices, a typical mount avoids combat.<img src="http://www.wizards.com/dndinsider/compendium/images/bullet.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />    Charging:  When the rider charges, the rider and mount move up to the mount’s  speed and then the rider makes the charge attack. When the mount  charges, it follows the normal rules for a charge.<img src="http://www.wizards.com/dndinsider/compendium/images/bullet.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />    Squeezing: When the mount squeezes, the rider is also considered to be squeezing. <img src="http://www.wizards.com/dndinsider/compendium/images/bullet.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />    Falling  Prone: If the mount falls prone, the rider is dismounted and falls  prone in an unoccupied space of the rider’s choice adjacent to the  now-prone mount. However, if the mount is flying when it falls prone,  the rider isn’t dismounted unless the mount lands and falls prone  itself.    A rider who is knocked prone can immediately make a  saving throw. On a roll lower than 10, the rider is dismounted and falls  prone in an unoccupied space of the rider’s choice adjacent to the  mount. On a roll of 10 or higher, the rider is neither dismounted nor  knocked prone.    A rider who voluntarily drops prone falls prone in an unoccupied space of the rider’s choice adjacent to the mount.</blockquote>

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