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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 6297389" data-attributes="member: 1165">That's one of the unclarities, yes. I wasn't aware you had a monk. (Your other responses often mentioned them.) A thri-kreen couldn't fit on a horse, even though a kreen is only Medium. Also, a kreen wouldn't ride a horse because that's "playing with your food". And I don't see why a monk would ride a horse in combat (in flavor terms). But yes, mechanically, this is just mushy...I want to say no to the former and yes to the latter, but the horse is technically capable of shifting or just moving at speed +2...I think I'd use whichever roll is worse. (Or group skill check? With the horse as an extra participant?)All those warlord powers should only work on creates that can see and understand you... but they don't. By RAW you can do it.Yes. It's like a theme.0So if a wizard is riding a horse and casts Fly...The designers obviously didn't put a lot of thought into this out of the box. That's why I had to consult the Rules Compendium. (Currently one of my PCs rides a climbing lizard. Last session, someone dominated the lizard, which made shared actions kind of weird. I decided that the shared actions trait was lost while it was dominated...)Cavalry are high-offense, low-defense anyway. I'm not sure how useful a mounted bodyguard is in real-life, so it doesn't bother me that a mounted "knight" isn't a good defender. Frankly I ignore class names anyway. (For my game, the generic knight has an ability similar to the caravan guard, where it selects a "liege" ahead of time. If you attack the liege, the knight gets to charge you as a reaction. Worse, if it uses a lance, it also knocks you prone. But my PCs never got to face any yet. This might be more important than it looks: I often create "monsters" that have abilities taken straight out of PC abilities. So NPC "knights" [who are more likely to be commoner mercenaries in flavor terms] often have a Defender Aura and can use Threatening Glower. My players hate that ability so much!)It's like a 30th-level fighter walking into town and hiring a henchman. You should get someone who won't instantly die on the first adventure.<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=":)" />The rules just aren't clear on this. At some point, the DM has to use common sense. Or tell a player that sorry, your character can't do that. (IMO, a horse shouldn't be able to use a Movement Technique, regardless of RAW. Still, I'm pretty sure a rogue riding a horse could use Tumble on the horse. Or Tactical Trick. *Sigh* )I really like this idea. As far as I'm concerned, a horse should only do two things in combat: give you a speed boost (or maybe just a charge/run speed boost) and give you bonus damage on a charge. Maybe 1/encounter Trample. I don't want it attacking, making opportunity actions, doing things a horse can't do, listening to people other than the rider, etc.I think you can prompt the use of Trample. But I'm not 100% sure, as I haven't read Mounted Combat in a while.Another unclear area.Or buy better mounts. IIRC more powerful mounts have the same cost as a magic item of their level. Sadly, they don't get healing surges. Maybe magic healing barding?</blockquote>

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