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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cheshire_grin" data-source="post: 4474869" data-attributes="member: 54244">I take it you completely ignored the cited historical records that pretty much showed exactly that? There is a reason jockeys and cavalrymen are not large people; weight matters even to a horse.The problem is, in real life, strength scales linearly with size, while mass scales exponentially. That is, twice as big means twice as strong -- but four times as heavy. You run into wildly diminishing returns very quickly.Now, if you want to argue for story purposes that the D&D milieu should support a heavy warhorse, in heavy barding, with a dragonborn on its back in plate, should roll along at precisely the same speed as a palfrey with a jockey in cloth, then be my guest; that's at least a defensible position. But IRL heavy cavalry wasn't used because of speed advantages over men on foot; it was used because the mass of the horse plus the mass of its armor made it a) very hard to stop the horse once it got moving, b) terrifying to stand in front of, and c) a terrific platform from which to kill lightly armored peasants. Having a mounted full-plate knight moving 2 squares/round doesn't seem unreasonable to me (but they should also get the commensurate advantages: extra charge damage, fear effect, etc).</blockquote>