Please Explain Mounted Rules and Combat

[irdeggman]

If I'm not mistaken, Intelligent mounts are different as you are not required to control the mount. The size issue is important because a creature much to small for it's mount will not be able to physically impact a mount enough to control it. If the mount is intelligent you ca just tell it what to do.

Besides, if your dragon mount spooks when you cast a spell you'll have bigger issues that not being able to control it in combat.

The size issue is what I trying to make the parallel to.

If a halfling has trouble riding a horse then a human would likewise have trouble ridign a dragon.

Unless I am mistaken there are some dragon rider prestige classes out there that have the assumption it can be done without a size difference penalty.