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<blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3070266" data-attributes="member: 22882">To be fair to Merric's players, the horse being stronger than the rider IS counterintuitive.&nbsp; The PCs may have thought that, since they downed the rider, they could handle his mount without much difficulty.&nbsp; It's not like killing a Dragon Highlord in Dragonlance and having to deal with his dragon, which would clearly be more dangerous; the typical PC probably sees 'evil warrior, funky horse' and thinks 'blackguard, fiendish servant' - and with the exception of a few builds that ALSO involve dragons (and may not work RAW for blackguards, I don't recall offhand), the blackguard is much more dangerous than his fiendish servant.Or, or more likely, they may have thought that, since they killed the rider, they still had to take his stuff! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I wager if it had gone the other way around (killed the horse but the rider was alive), the PCs would have been much more likely to retreat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MoogleEmpMog, post: 3070266, member: 22882"] To be fair to Merric's players, the horse being stronger than the rider IS counterintuitive. The PCs may have thought that, since they downed the rider, they could handle his mount without much difficulty. It's not like killing a Dragon Highlord in Dragonlance and having to deal with his dragon, which would clearly be more dangerous; the typical PC probably sees 'evil warrior, funky horse' and thinks 'blackguard, fiendish servant' - and with the exception of a few builds that ALSO involve dragons (and may not work RAW for blackguards, I don't recall offhand), the blackguard is much more dangerous than his fiendish servant. Or, or more likely, they may have thought that, since they killed the rider, they still had to take his stuff! ;) I wager if it had gone the other way around (killed the horse but the rider was alive), the PCs would have been much more likely to retreat. [/QUOTE]

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