Questions tagged [mounted-combat]
For questions about combat involving a rider mounted on another creature, such as a horse or other riding animal.
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Can a controlled mount escape a grapple? (2024)
A grappled creature can use its action to escape.
A controlled mount can take only three action options: Dash, Disengage, and Dodge.
If a creature grapples a controlled mount can the mount attempt to ...
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Can a controlled mount escape a grapple? (2014)
A grappled creature can use its action to escape.
A controlled mount can take only three action options: Dash, Disengage, and Dodge.
If a creature grapples a controlled mount can the mount attempt to ...
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By RAW, do caltrops force saves from mounts and their riders?
Technically, the riders of mounted creatures do not use move actions directly, they instead use the Command and Animal action to motivate their mount to move. This means that a rider is unaffected by ...
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Can you make a melee attack in mounted combat after your mount has taken a double move?
The rules are clear about ranged attacks and spell casting during double moves.
If you have your mount double move, it's moving before and after you cast.
You can use ranged weapons while your mount ...
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Ride-By Attack Options
A Ride-By Attack goes as follows:
When you are mounted and use the charge action, you may move and attack as if with a standard charge and then move again (continuing the straight line of the charge)....
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If my mount were to attune to a headband of intellect, could I teach it common (to full understand and work with me as an Intelligent creature)?
My DM allowed me to get a Griffon as a mount, but with a 2 INT, it has been hard to work with it in combat (aside from Dash/Dodge/Disengage actions). Using one of its 3 attunement slots for the ...
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Does a controlled mount's initiative revert when dismounted?
The general rule for Combat - Initiative is that:
Initiative remains the same from round to round.
However, a controlled mount's initiative changes to match its rider's:
The initiative of a ...
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If a mount provokes opportunity attacks, can its rider be targeted?
Re: Mounted Combat, the 2014 PHB states:
if the mount provokes an opportunity attack while you’re on it, the attacker can target you or the mount.
However, the 2024 PHB makes no such caveat in the ...
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How does Cloak of Displacement interact with mounted combat?
The Cloak of Displacement says:
While you wear this cloak, it projects an illusion that
makes you appear to be standing in a place near
your actual location, causing any creature to have
disadvantage ...
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Mounted targets interaction with spells
I'm looking for information on how spells interact with/affect mounted targets. Examples I'm most interested in (since I suspect it might vary between spells):
Invisibility. Are mounted target ...
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How does a player piggy-backing another player work in combat?
One of my PCs (a halfling) has recently taken to riding on the back of another one of my PCs (a dwarf). I allowed this, as I didn't think it had any problems and it allowed the group to go faster - ...
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Does a freshly mounted creature get a new turn? [duplicate]
The rules for mounted combat say:
The initiative of a controlled mount changes to match yours when you mount it. (...) A controlled mount can move and act even on the turn that you mount it.
What, ...
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Is there a way to keep the versatile bonus while mounted, like a feat or anything?
I have a player who wants to wield a Warhammer in one hand while mounted, and is trying to keep the d10 for dice? Is there a feat or bonus that does it? If not would it be a problem balance wise if I ...
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If you're mounted and forced to make a melee attack, do you attack your mount?
I'm a new DM running a 5e combat encounter in which the NPC attacker is mounted on a Riding Horse.
One of the players' characters has just cast Confusion, which indicates that
Each creature in a 10-...
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What are the rules for two people riding the same mount?
What happens if two people try to ride the same mount? Is this a viable strategy? I'm interested both in what happens in exploration mode and when they enter combat.
If specifics are needed, assume ...
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