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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5095915" data-attributes="member: 22779">But, how is mounted knight an odd ball character in a D&amp;D setting?&nbsp; Isn't mounted knight a pretty much bog standard archetype in a fantasy setting?But, mounted knight, or mounts of any kind are very difficult to use.&nbsp; You cannot use a mount (unless you go the small rider/medium mount route) in a very large number of standard adventure &quot;areas&quot;.&nbsp; No mounts in dungeons, castles, jungles, waterborne adventures, or mountains just to name a few.&nbsp; Like the example of the heavy armor guy in the all stealth party, it isn't that the player is being a jerk and creating really odd ball characters.&nbsp; It's that sometimes, standard fantasy archetypes don't work all that well in a group situation.To answer The Human Target, I also don't think there's a lack of mounted rules.&nbsp; There's certainly enough rules there to cover most any situation where you can ride a mount.&nbsp; However, that's, in my mind anyway, not the issue.&nbsp; The issue is that many standard D&amp;D situations preclude the use of mounts.To me, this was the basic reason for the paladin's summonable mount.&nbsp; It was a totally meta-game thing to let him have a mount when he needed one and could use it, but didn't screw him over by forcing him to waste game time protecting the thing when the party went off into Non-mount territory.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 5095915, member: 22779"] But, how is mounted knight an odd ball character in a D&D setting? Isn't mounted knight a pretty much bog standard archetype in a fantasy setting? But, mounted knight, or mounts of any kind are very difficult to use. You cannot use a mount (unless you go the small rider/medium mount route) in a very large number of standard adventure "areas". No mounts in dungeons, castles, jungles, waterborne adventures, or mountains just to name a few. Like the example of the heavy armor guy in the all stealth party, it isn't that the player is being a jerk and creating really odd ball characters. It's that sometimes, standard fantasy archetypes don't work all that well in a group situation. To answer The Human Target, I also don't think there's a lack of mounted rules. There's certainly enough rules there to cover most any situation where you can ride a mount. However, that's, in my mind anyway, not the issue. The issue is that many standard D&D situations preclude the use of mounts. To me, this was the basic reason for the paladin's summonable mount. It was a totally meta-game thing to let him have a mount when he needed one and could use it, but didn't screw him over by forcing him to waste game time protecting the thing when the party went off into Non-mount territory. [/QUOTE]

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