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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6876898" data-attributes="member: 6787650">That's kind of like arguing that flight is actually useless: it takes a very special campaign to make it useless all the time. Horses can fit into a 5'x5' dungeon corridor (at half speed and penalties to attack/defense), and there are options (Find Steed, Phantom Steed) for getting a Large mount even in places where a horse isn't allowed or won't fit, like a 2' x 3' corridor made for gnomes.How often in your games do you actually find Medium creature taking penalties for "Squeezing into smaller spaces"? If that happens frequently, then you're right, a horse wouldn't work in that game, and neither will Large monsters like most of the stuff in the MM, and suddenly Sanctuary, Sharpshooter and spells like Fog Cloud (or other methods for cancelling disadvantage) become amazingly good because your whole game is going to take place in chokepoints. I've never even heard of anyone playing such a game though. More frequently (at least) a healthy portion of the game takes place in reasonably open areas. Many games take place in wide-open areas where flying mounts like Gryphons and Giant Eagles would work, if you had a way to acquire one.</blockquote>