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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cor Azer" data-source="post: 4771420" data-attributes="member: 870">Actually, the intention was to have the boars attacking quite frequently, mostly just running around and charging/goring stuff. One goblin rider would be doing archery stuff (spending his move action to light his arrows on fire), while the other would be trying to spear stuff (using a ready action to attack when the boar runs past a PC).I was thinking the boars would actually be the major threat of the fight; I intend the goblins to be annoying, and not simply mooks, but not the same threat as their hulking mounts.A PC rider shares with his mount, but I seem to recall the DMG suggesting that mounts count towards the XP for the encounter, particularly if they're providing more than just extra movement. And there's a similar note that if a PC has a mount of significance (again, more than just movement) that its XP be added to the encounter total to take it into account.Combining the goblin riders with their boar mount as one creature could also become messy if I have the goblins scrambling onto different boars each turn. I'm expecting the goblins to be knocked off fairly easily, but the boars may keep moving away (or the goblins may be knocked further away*), so to protect themselves, the land-bound goblins may move to get on a different boar, particularly later in the combat when some of the goblins have been killed and the boars aren't carrying their full complement of two riders.* The fight is also going to be taking place during a bit of a goat stampede as a hazard. The goats will be running in random directions, hitting PC and monster alike, and pushing them all over the place.Now, I admit I might be planning the combat to be more complicated than it needs to be, but I think it'd be cool, and I hope my players might find the frantic happens to be fun (at least on such a one-off encounter; I certainly wouldn't try something like this is every fight).</blockquote>

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