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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WHW4" data-source="post: 5958261" data-attributes="member: 63382">ad·ja·cent/əˈjāsənt/Adjective:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Next to or adjoining something else:  "adjacent rooms".</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(of angles) Having a common vertex and a common side.</li> </ul>Yes, a rider is adjacent to the mount; even "more adjacent" (if that's a term, heh) than you normally are when in combat (generally five feet away from someone in melee range). Now that might change if, say, you were fighting like an oliphaunt or dinosaur. You may be unable to reach the rider (in which case he isn't adjacent to you is he?)Yes, you can cleave the rider after you slay the mount. You are literally cleaving through someone to the next target; It gets it's own attack roll, but the modifiers are all the same. Thematically it's a continuation of the first swing. No, I am not aware of any rule against cleaving a target that shared a space with another creature. They may have cover or some other situational bonus or penalty, but they should be imminently able to be attacked just like every other adjacent target.</blockquote>