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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Duncan Haldane" data-source="post: 2904850" data-attributes="member: 514">I play/DM several living campaigns, and mounted combat is... interesting.The players of characters with mounted feats often complain that too many modules don't allow them to use their mounts.I've seen a player with a high-level mounted archer type, who is quite deadly - gets to where he wants to be on the field quickly, etc.I have a 4th level character with ride and handle animal, and he owns a lance, but has none of the feats, so I'm happy to get the chance to use it, but don't care if it doesn't happen.If you are playing a mounted marshall I hope your DM lets you use your feats.  But it also depends on the other character's specialities.BTW, if you read the D&D faq it has recently included some rulings that made Ride-by attack almost useless, as you cannot overrun, must continue in a straight line, etc, which basically means that unless you down your opponent, you can't use the ride-by.Another point, if you are interested in doing more mounted combat in your game(s), I would suggest you read Skip Williams "Rules of the Game" articles on mounted combat - it's a pretty good overview of the whole mounted combat situation.Mass Fly on mounted PCs = fun, as they can then separate into pairs of rider and mount <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=":-)" />Duncan</blockquote>

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