Pouncing Tiger - Dead Dragon

[Darklone]

Honestly. It still makes as much sense to me as putting a pixie cohort with Mounted Combat on your helmet to deflect attacks against you. Perfect by the rules. Hahahaha.

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

Honestly. It still makes as much sense to me as putting a pixie cohort with Mounted Combat on your helmet to deflect attacks against you. Perfect by the rules. Hahahaha.

That's fantastic. I've got to ask my GM about that... I wanna make him mad enough to throw dice at me.


The mental image of a tiger leaping onto someone, rider on the back, works for me.

Ought to mention, it's a high level paladin and the (celestial) tiger is his special mount... if that makes any difference? Not my character neither. I'm just being curious in case it comes up imc.


Although someone bought up another question all together. Does the mount even get to attack on a ride by? I'd assumed it worked like spring attack for the mount and rider... Am I wrong?

 

[Tilla the Hun (work)]

I have to ask... what *if* you modified your original question as follows:

Paladin with Ride-By-Attack mounted on Celestial Tiger which has the feat Spring Attack...

How many attacks can they do? Probably only two, or one each, but the mount can move it's full movement, and the two attacks can occur anywhere along the move, right? Now, is pounce listed as a standard action, move action, or as an attack? If it's just an attack, sure, use it (per the rules) but I suspect a close reading of 'pounce' will indicate it's not just an attack but more analogous to grapple, in which case I'd have a problem with seeing it used in conjunction with spring attack... I mean, really, move - grapple - move away???

 

[Sherlock]

The problem with the Pounce is that it requires a charge attack to work. Can you Charge and Spring Attack at the same time?


Edit: After looking over Charge, I would have to say that you cannot Charge and Spring Attack at the same time. Charge is a full round action.

 

[Diirk]

No.

 

[Nail]

I have to ask... what *if* you modified your original question as follows:

Paladin with Ride-By-Attack mounted on Celestial Tiger which has the feat Spring Attack...

How many attacks can they do?

That's better, at least.

With just the Ride-By Attack feat, the mount doesn't get to attack at all.

With Spring Attack, the tiger gets to attack....once. Just once, and no Pounce or Rake kids. After all the Pounce is from a charge, and you can't charge using Spring Attack.

Pounce (Ex): If a tiger charges a foe, it can make a full attack, including two rake attacks.

You could Overrun, I guess......

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

With just the Ride-By Attack feat, the mount doesn't get to attack at all.

Why not?

AR

 

[Pax]

Because, Altamont, the Mount has to obey the normal rules for combat TOO.

In order for your mount to attack "with" you during a Ride-By Attack, your mount would have to have the Spring Attack feat (entirely possible with high-HD mounts, special mounts for Windriders, Paladins, etc, or similar cases).

 

[Nail]

....what Pax said.

The mount is using a double move. It has no actions left.....and BTW: it's not the mount charging. "You" are charging.

Benefit: When you are mounted and use the charge action, .....