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    \$\begingroup\$ +1. This is a great approach, using narrative to explain it. Congrats! \$\endgroup\$ Commented yesterday
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    \$\begingroup\$ So I ask my trained warhorse to move and it just stands there without even trying to move? I think a trained mount would actually happily charge through whatever is trying to grapple it (they charge through ranks of trained pikemen for example) maybe that would be mechanically well modelled by say bothering to try and escape from the grapple using the special action the grappled condition grants. \$\endgroup\$ Commented yesterday
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    \$\begingroup\$ @SeriousBri, right. The narrative verisimilitude is flimsy at best, incoherent at worst. If I spur my steed it’s not going to just wait until the grapple is broken. Not to mention, if all I need to do is let go of the reins, the answer to OP’s question is practically “yes”. \$\endgroup\$ Commented yesterday
  • \$\begingroup\$ @SeriousBri Generally, we accept that when someone has successfully grappled a creature, they are strong enough, for that time in combat, to have found a way to keep the creature from moving, even if the creature could normally overpower it in a raw STR vs. STR score; this is the nature of why a creature with 30 str can roll a 2 and still be grappled by a creature with 10 str who rolls a 15 in the first place. If the level 2 with 10 strength can narratively justify holding a troll with 20 str in place, why would the horse be more special than the troll? \$\endgroup\$ Commented yesterday
  • \$\begingroup\$ It generally isn't, and as a controlled mount, has further restrictions that limit its options during your turn. I would agree with allowing a handle animal check on the rider's part to encourage the horse to free itself, or even to use their own action to break the hostile grapple, but I wouldn't violate the RAW restriction on the controlled mount's actions without some sort of preliminary check, and it should almost certainly be an action economy tax of some kind, since that's the nature of the restriction. 2/2 \$\endgroup\$ Commented yesterday