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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 5436138" data-attributes="member: 63">What, no teleporting Pern dragon-riders? Shucks.It's much weaker (and more balanced) than 3e, when a low-level ranger on a warhorse could wreck a small army of hobgoblins. There are enemies in front of us? Hoof-hoof-bite! Now the horse 5-ft. steps away from the hobgoblins, so I can rapid shot them with impunity. You attack me? I make a ride check to duck behind my horse and get +4 AC. Funny how the rules make no mention of how often you can do this. I'm flanked, eh? Well I'll duck on this side of the horse against the first attack, then behind the other side of the horse for the second attack.The best, though, was the round where by random chance we had three horses arrayed side by side, with 5 ft. gaps between them:---------HH-HH-HHHH-HH-HH---------And the DM, who was ridiculously adherent to the rules as written, agreed to let me fast mount as a free action (ride DC 20 when I had a +17 bonus), fast dismount, fast mount the next horse, fast dismount, fast mount the third horse, and then have that horse make a full attack.</blockquote>