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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Runestar" data-source="post: 4974817" data-attributes="member: 72317">You could start out as a centaur. This means you are always mounted, and so can benefit from spirited charge (note that races of faerun states you may take spirited charge without having to meet the requirements). It also means your mount is much less vulnerable to attacks (since you are effectively your own mount). In addition, when you swap out your mount for charging smite...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Are you sure the damage is exponential? I thought dnd math explicitly discouraged that sort of progression. But your calculations also seem a tad off.Lets say I am a paladin18 with spirited charge and a lance (dealing triple damage in a successful charge). Rhino's rush should increase this to x4 damage, not x6 (you double only the base damage).In addition, using the unapproachable east version of valarous (has it been reprinted elsewhere?), it has this clause stating "like a mounted warrior using the spirited charge feat", so my interpretation is that it basically gives you the spirited charge for free (and so should not stack with spirited charge). So if my base damage with a lance is 1d8+75 (quite conservative, charging smite and PA already each add +36 damage), I would deal 4d8+300 damage). Still more than enough to 1-shot any PC though.  On a side note, can a mounted paladin used charging smite?</blockquote>

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