Mounted combat: Do you bother?

[frankthedm]

(I once considered riding my horse up onto the battlements of a city we were defending and having her make a leap off the top to chase after a badguy who had just escaped that way but was convinced it would be a Bad Idea by the funny looks I was getting from the GM & other players...). *sigh* It's so hard to be stupidly heroic with people looking at you that way..

Do you think you could have handled the fight solo?

 

[Shemeska]

I've never had mounted combat in any game that I've run. They either get off their mounts, or have been high enough level to fly and/or teleport, making typical mounts superfluous. Plus, I've never had a paladin in any game of mine who would have had a mount. No paladins. I wonder why. *fiendish grin*

 

[Voadam]

How often does mounted combat come up in your games? Do you ever bother creating characters focused on it? How have you dealt with the high-level issues? (Specifically, if you aren't a paladin or a druid, any mount you have is going to die in the first high-level area effect or breath weapon its exposed to, save or no save.)

This assumes standar warhorses and similar beasts as mounts. Dragons or the like are an entirely different story.

I'm about to start playing a mounted-combat-focused marshal in a campaign, and as much as I like the image, I can't help but wonder if I'm just throwing two feats out the window.

Rarely with the paladin summoning his mount being the only thing. No. Haven't adjusted at all besides switching whole heartedly to the 3.5 pokemount for paladins.

 

[Jubilee]

(I once considered riding my horse up onto the battlements of a city we were defending and having her make a leap off the top to chase after a badguy who had just escaped that way but was convinced it would be a Bad Idea by the funny looks I was getting from the GM & other players...). *sigh* It's so hard to be stupidly heroic with people looking at you that way..

Do you think you could have handled the fight solo?

It wasn't that I couldn't have taken on the guy on my own - it was that my horse has a great jump check & I have a terrible jump check + my horse is faster than I am, so IF the horse survived the jump AND I managed to stay on horseback, I would have been able to catch up with the fleeing villain (who had a head start on me). I could have lept off the wall on my own, but I wouldn't have been able to catch up to the guy (even if I survived the fall), because he had too much of a head start.

So the villain got away.

/ali