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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5100576" data-attributes="member: 22779">Wow, and the straw is flying fast and thick.Show me ONE TIME I said the player had to be mounted ALL the time.  Once.  One single time.  What I did actually say, is that if the concept is that the character is a mounted knight, he should be mounted a majority of the time.  How is that silly or outrageous?  That a mounted character should be on his horse 50+1% of the time?  I'd even settle for 60% as a nice amount.  Instead, I'm told that it's totally unreasonable to assume that a character concept will enter into play more than a minority of time.Sorry, again, if you actually take the time to respond to what I'm saying and not what you think I'm saying, we could avoid this.I am NOT SAYING the player should hog the spotlight.  Not in the slightest.  I guess, this being the Internet, I have to specifically define each and every point since understanding from context apparently eludes some people.What I AM SAYING is that when a specific character takes some sort of action, (obviously not hogging the spotlight which is a totally different issue) that that action should reflect the character's concept a majority of the time.Thus, if I'm playing an archer, I should be shooting arrows more than half the time in combat.  If I'm playing a sneaky thief, I should be doing some scouting when scouting is called for.  If I'm playing a wizard, I should be casting spells more than　50% of the time when it's called for.Rel's solution does work rather nicely to be honest, but, only if the players are groovy with it.  I think it can work, particularly for the scouting rogue concept - most people just want to do their schtick, the specifics of how they accomplish it aren't all that important.  So, most reasonable players will be fine with not rolling a Hide or Move Silently or Stealth (or whatever you do in your system) every thirty feet and dragging the game down like that.But, the rogue still gets to do his schtick, when it's called for, 100% of the time.  Every time there is a situation where being a scout is called for, he's the go to guy and does his thing.Our mounted knight, OTOH, only gets to fight on the back of his horse once in a while (apparently) in many campaigns, and he should just suck it up and not complain.  Other than Rel's solution, which I'm not sure it works so well if the player actually wants to fight from horseback, I've yet to see any solutions that don't boil down to "tough noogies - you picked a concept that is limited, live with it."There is another option as well.  Create your campaign for the PC's.  Instead of creating the campaign first, you create the PC's first and then build the campaign to that.  Thus, you ensure that there is ample terrain for the mounted guy to get his groove on.Or, maybe that's too railroady.  I dunno.</blockquote>

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