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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 3177939" data-attributes="member: 7533">Take two light horses, and one medium-sized rider with basic equipment (laets' say a total carrying weight between 150 and 450 pounds -- most adventurers -- which is medium encumbrance for a light horse).A light horse with light encumbrance can walk 6 miles per hour for 8 hours.A light horse with medium encumbrance can walk 4 miles per hour for 8 hours, or hustle at up to 8 miles per hour. Now remember, the rules for overland movement say...So, here's how the remount works...The unecumbered horse walks at 6 miles per hour, while the encumbered horse hustles at 6 miles per hour.  That way, you end up moving at 1.5 times the base movement rate, but you spread the non-lethal damage for hustling over two or more horses. That allows you to go a little bit faster for much longer periods of time.Without the remount, you could travel 32 miles in 8 hours without tiring the horse...  Or 40 miles in 5 hours, and end up with a fatigued horse with 15 points of non-lethal damage (4 more, and he falls unconscious) that would take 5 hours to recover.With a remount, you can travel 48 miles in 8 hours -- switching horses every hour -- and end up with two fatigued horses with  6 or 7 points of non-lethal damage each (it's 10 points altogether, some can be recovered during the hours horse walks), which recovers in 2 or 3 hours.</blockquote>