You could allow your warhorse to act as an Mount”, so attacking isn’t allowed, and Trampling Charge requires the horse Your warhorse can’t trample people while you ride it. Some people will inevitably make this mistake, so I’ll mention it here: Lances, and some extra stuff if you take the Mounted Combatant feat. You just get the improved move speed of the mount, a minor advantage with Unfortunately, not all of those advantages exist in 5e’s rules. To hold their shield uncomfortably high if they have one. Is easy, while your opponent is forced to strike upward at you, and possibly In addition to superior mobility, striking downward at a foe Even in single combat, being mounted presented a A unit ofĬavalry was more mobile and frequently much more lethal than infantry with World War I, cavalry was a defining component of any military. Historically, horses have provided a massive tactical advantage.

See page 198 of the Player’s Handbook, or download a current copy of the If you want to read the text in its original form,

Thanks to the magic of the SRD, I’ll reproduce parts of the rules textīelow for easy reference. Leans on the rules heavily enough to need this article but doesn’t use a This is technically a house rule, I have never encountered a group that

This article generally assumes that you are using a grid in combat. Is the actual meat of the mounted combat rules. Which is devoted entirely to getting on and off of your mount, and the third One which is almost entirely flavor text, and one of Text for mounted combat is half of a page in the Player’s Handbook split Mounted combat is simultaneously simple and confusing. Where am I while mounted? How does reach work while mounted?.How do I determine if a mount is “intelligent”?.Can an intelligent creature be a “controlled” mount?.I have updated the document below to address the Significance and history of mounted combat in fantasy and in Dungeons andĭragons in general. They don’t get into the rules until roughly 17:30 after discussing the The segment starts roughly 10 minutes into the episode, but (the official Dungeons and Dragons podcast) did a Sage Advice segment on Roughly 6 months after I initially published this article, WotC’s Will hopefully answer any question you’ve ever had about mounted combat in Going to break down 5e’s mounted combat rules in excruciating detail, which How about riding around on a party member’s shoulders? Well, settle in. Mighty steed? If you don’t like horses, how about a pegasus or a dragon? No? Do you like horses? Do you like the idea of charging into battle atop a

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