A Knight's move


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Have you ever thought to yourself "Blimey, I do wish I could jump around my allies heads like a checkers piece on speed"?

No? Good. You are an upstanding citizen. Read no further. Have a nice day!

If you did though here's what we'll need the following:

-Undersized Mount
-A way to reliably make a DC20 Ride check
-Blatant disregard of RAI

With undersized mount, you can treat any medium creature as mount. With quick mount/dismount, you can mount any adjacent creature your size, and then dismount on an adjacent square.

Technically also works if you are a halfling, I guess.

Okay, so that's the core idea. I want to expand upon it. You could use Friendly switch to pull people around. I also couldn't find any rule saying the thing you mount has to be friendly. So could you mount the enemy wizard? Or just use this to get into a flanking position much, much easier.


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This is hilarious, I do not care if it follows the rules exactly, if you brought this my table I would accept it. I am just imagining a person jumping on a wizards back and yelling piggy back. Good on you mate, you are doing great work!

Lantern Lodge

So basically you want to recreate the The Jockey from Left4Dead2 as a PC?


Basically yeah.

The one big limitation is that you need to have a move action left to use free mount/dismount, and I'm not exactly sure how it'd interact with your normal movement.

To elaborate: you can normally take a move and a standard action. You can also take a free action at any time. What I'm thinking is, with Friendly switch you could do the following:

move to ally->move over to other side of ally using free mount-dismount (since you have another move action left in the form of a standard)->continue your first move action (as you just took a free action to interrupt it, you did not actually stop it)

In case that's how it works, you can then move back into the space of the ally with friendly switch, then do it all over again.

However, you could not do this if you already took both your standard and your move. So you can't make an attack, then jump around, but you can ride all around, and then make an attack.


Fast Mount under Ride includes this sentence: "You can attempt to mount or dismount from a mount of up to one size category larger than yourself as a free action, provided that you still have a move action available that round." Does that technically mean you have to be at least one size smaller to use it?


I was hoping this had something to do with Bob Seger.


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I was thinking you could somehow swap places with your mount an infinite number of times per turn, meaning you swap, mount, swap, mount...

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