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<blockquote data-quote="mvincent" data-source="post: 3007365" data-attributes="member: 27034">From the Rules of the Game:&quot;A mount and rider share the same space on the battlefield.For all game purposes, you and your mount function as a single unit on the battlefield. Your mount continues to use its own space and reach while carrying you. You effectively use your mount's space and your own reach (or whatever extended reach your weapon gives you) while mounted. While you're mounted, any attack that can reach a square in the space you and your mount jointly occupy can affect you or your mount (it doesn't make a difference which square). Likewise, you measure your reach for your melee attacks and the range for your ranged attacks from any square you and your mount jointly occupy. &quot;The reasoning for this is that the mount could conceivably twist itself to allow the rider to be in any portion of the occupied space in order to attack (and be attacked in return). It is also much simpler. The DM is of course free to make realistic adjudications though i.e. the rule might be applicable for a gnome lancer mounted near the head of a gargantuan dragon, but not for someone sitting in a bunker mounted on the small of the dragon's back... the latter is more like freely occupying a space already occupied by a creater three or more sizes larger than you (also allowed by the rules).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mvincent, post: 3007365, member: 27034"] From the Rules of the Game: [I]"A mount and rider share the same space on the battlefield. For all game purposes, you and your mount function as a single unit on the battlefield. Your mount continues to use its own space and reach while carrying you. You effectively use your mount's space and your own reach (or whatever extended reach your weapon gives you) while mounted. While you're mounted, any attack that can reach a square in the space you and your mount jointly occupy can affect you or your mount (it doesn't make a difference which square). Likewise, you measure your reach for your melee attacks and the range for your ranged attacks from any square you and your mount jointly occupy. "[/I] The reasoning for this is that the mount could conceivably twist itself to allow the rider to be in [I]any[/I] portion of the occupied space in order to attack (and be attacked in return). It is also much simpler. The DM is of course free to make realistic adjudications though i.e. the rule might be applicable for a gnome lancer mounted near the head of a gargantuan dragon, but not for someone sitting in a bunker mounted on the small of the dragon's back... the latter is more like freely occupying a space already occupied by a creater three or more sizes larger than you (also allowed by the rules). [/QUOTE]

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