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<blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 251315" data-attributes="member: 114">I notice that in the PHB p138 the actual sentence says &quot;For simplicity, assume that you occupy the back part of the horse&quot;.I prefer a different assumption <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I assume that the warrior occupies the front part of the horse because (a) he is leaning forwards into the attack rather than leaning backwards away from it (b) it makes a whole range of AoO situations much more simple to adjudicate.You might want to consider trying this out - I mention it since the PHB statement is just saying &quot;assume&quot;, which makes it sound as though they didn't particularly think through the implications of &quot;front or back&quot;, and considered them to be completely equivalent so you might as well pick one at random!Of course, many people will want to stick with the &quot;letter of the law&quot; here, and that is fine. I just wanted to mention an interesting solution which can arise from within the spirit of the law.Cheers</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Plane Sailing, post: 251315, member: 114"] I notice that in the PHB p138 the actual sentence says "For simplicity, assume that you occupy the back part of the horse". I prefer a different assumption :) I assume that the warrior occupies the front part of the horse because (a) he is leaning forwards into the attack rather than leaning backwards away from it (b) it makes a whole range of AoO situations much more simple to adjudicate. You might want to consider trying this out - I mention it since the PHB statement is just saying "assume", which makes it sound as though they didn't particularly think through the implications of "front or back", and considered them to be completely equivalent so you might as well pick one at random! Of course, many people will want to stick with the "letter of the law" here, and that is fine. I just wanted to mention an interesting solution which can arise from within the spirit of the law. Cheers [/QUOTE]

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