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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4458959" data-attributes="member: 29398">Easy.  Mr. Paladin leaves the party, and his player and the DM sit down during the week over a beer and sort this out before the next session, while the main party goes without its Paladin for a while.  In other words, the main session carries on as usual (with the Paladin's player running a different character), knowing that by next week the Paladin will either have his mount or not, and will be back in circulation once the rest of the party catches up in game-world time.This is a much better question.  I've always kind of seen the mount's role as more a matter of looking imposing while riding into town, and for jousts and tournaments, than being involved in hard field work.  And, if the Paladin ever gets involved in an army war, the mount again adds to the aura of imposingness.  But it's quite true, horses and dungeons don't mix well; other than the horse providing food for the opposition. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />You're running aground on the 4e design paradigm of the PCs being special flowers, and the world and its rules revolving around the Party.  Me, I'd just add a few lines of text in the call-for-warhorse write-up explaining how horses and dungeoneering don't often mix, and leave it alone.Lanefan</blockquote>

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