Charging on a flying mount.


Rules Questions

Liberty's Edge

So...are there any restrictions?

You have to charge in a straight line (barring Wheeling Charge) but does this have to be ruler straight, or just in a singular direction? Could a flying mount start 30ft in the air, charge 20 feet forward and 20 feet down (at an angle) to let his rider hit a target with reach and then, using ride-by attack, fly up and forward (at an angle) taking them both completely out of melee range with zero penalties?

Just seems a little too juicy to be true. Working on a tiny fighter/hunter with an eagle mount and this + lance and lunge would keep both of them from ever getting hit in melee, barring low ceilings/enemies with greater than 10ft reach making AoOs/ranged attacks.


mounted combat is very strange. You'll get probably 3 differing answers to this.

What I'll say on this topic though. Going at an angle down is okay, but once you picked that line you then couldn't go up at all.


Osmin wrote:

So...are there any restrictions?

You have to charge in a straight line (barring Wheeling Charge) but does this have to be ruler straight, or just in a singular direction? Could a flying mount start 30ft in the air, charge 20 feet forward and 20 feet down (at an angle) to let his rider hit a target with reach and then, using ride-by attack, fly up and forward (at an angle) taking them both completely out of melee range with zero penalties?

Just seems a little too juicy to be true. Working on a tiny fighter/hunter with an eagle mount and this + lance and lunge would keep both of them from ever getting hit in melee, barring low ceilings/enemies with greater than 10ft reach making AoOs/ranged attacks.

You have to continue the straight line of the charge. You can't go in another direction, so wouldn't be able to fly up. You would have to continue down at the same angle as before the attack.

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Benefit: 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). Your total movement for the round can't exceed double your mounted speed. You and your mount do not provoke an attack of opportunity from the opponent that you attack.

Flyby Attack (in the Bestiary) lets you move, attack, then move again. But it can't be used with a charge - it only allows a standard action to be taken in the middle of a single move action. Spring Attack also lets you move, attack, then move again, but also can't be used with a charge (it is its own full round action).

Liberty's Edge

Straight line....on an angled charge, wouldn't that mean stopping a couple of spaces later when you couldn't go down any further?


if you were to not stop at attack point and they weren't on a mountain that you were flying along, yes.

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