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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gargoyle" data-source="post: 6372363" data-attributes="member: 529">I can read that both ways...for instance you could interpret his comment as that the mounts should be treated more like the animal companions, so that they cannot act independently while being ridden, just as a ranger's animal companion cannot act independently while the ranger is present and conscious.  But I agree with your implication, I don't think that was what he meant.  He probably means that the ranger can let his animal companion act independently at any time, giving it to the DM to control temporarily, having it's own initiative, and it's own actions like a PC.If they allow for rangers to let their animal companions to act independently using the same rules as mounts, it's an extra burden on the DM, but I'd be ok with that for the sake of consistency and verisimilitude, and I might even just do that as a house rule for those reasons, and also just to make the player happier, cause I'm cool like that.</blockquote>