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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Haggerty" data-source="post: 58283" data-attributes="member: 89">That's why I suggested spending two months to make a Handle Animal check to train the horse to attack on command without a rider.  Anyone with the requisite skill and time (or money to hire someone with the skill and time) can do that, not just paladins and druids.I too suggested that horses use tactics in line with their intelligence...  they should not be purposefully flanking a target to give the rogue a sneak attack.And I can't move this thread, I'm not a mod...  Should I be feel complimented by the implication?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'll admit that I misread your post...   I was originally under the impression that, except for warhorses owned by paladins and druids, you did not let warhorses purposefully attack at the rider's behest, even in battle.  I was wrong.Also, I did not mean the post to sound as insulting as it did...  I forgot my <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> .  It just bugs me when people make rulings without doing the research, and it happens far too often.  No hard feelings, eh?Anyway, I think we're in agreement that warhorses would not normally attack of their own accord in the absence of a rider.  I disagree, however, with the idea that only horses belonging to classes that get animal companions can train them otherwise.  And since this character has very obviously not trained his horse to attack on command, he should not yet be allowed to command it so.  In my opinion, the horse in that situation, spurred to duty by the clash of weapons and scent of blood, would lash out at any target that presented itself, whether friend or foe...  Except for, perhaps, his owner.</blockquote>

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