Amplified Rage + Bestial Mount + Ferocious Mount + Solo Tactics

[thepuregamer]

ok, lets say your character has 5 lvls of barbarian and 3 lvls of inquisitor and has all 4 abilities listed in the title.

Does his mount count as being in an adjacent square? If you think in 3D, he could be considered to be in the square 5 ft above the ground and the mount is in the square below. If so, is our mounted barbarian getting an extra +4 str while raging?

Note ferocious mount ability passes rage onto your mount and solo tatics ability makes it so your mount does not need to have the feat for you to activate amplified rage.

[spoiler=amplified rage from orcs of golarion source]
Whenever you are raging and adjacent to a raging ally who also has this feat or flanking the same opponent as a raging ally with this feat, your morale bonuses to Strength and Constitution increase by +4. This feat does not stack with itself (you only gain this bonus from one qualifying ally, regardless of how many are adjacent to you).

[Magicdealer]

You and your mount effectively occupy the same area. Much like other discussions about space, such as a 6' tall human reaching into a second 5' square, the units of area are designed to simplify combat.

Thus, a human takes up a 5ft square. A horse takes up 10ft.

To some extent a dm call is due here. I would personally lean towards allowing the horse to count as adjacent for purposes of this combo. Mainly because it requires a lot of investment to pull off, and doesn't provide that much reward in return. Heck, the character in question could purchase a wolverine and train it to rage on command.

But I can also see the interpretation that the human is astride in the middle of the horse, sharing the space, and thus the horse doesn't count as an adjacent ally, but instead as one the character is sharing the space with.

James Jacob weighed in with a relevant comment. Copy/paste:

James Jacobs wrote:

The rules as written indicate that the rider and the mount share the space they take up on the board, so yeah; they'd both provoke attacks of opportunity. You could certainly house rule it that a rider can be in ANY of the squares his mount occupies, so in this case it'd be possible for a rider to be out of reach of an AoO even if his mount is not... but that's not the rules as written.

You can find the full post here

According to that, since you and your mount share space, they wouldn't be considered adjacent.

[thepuregamer]

yeah, James mentions that the rules say they share their space, but where does the prd say this? I have been trying to find it in the combat section and some other sections but have not been terribly successful.

[Mike Schneider]

If you can Cleave between a rider and his mount, then they are ipso facto adjacent.

[Skylancer4]

Mike Schneider wrote:

If you can Cleave between a rider and his mount, then they are ipso facto adjacent.

By RAW you might not be able to do a cleave between the two however. There are at least a few places where creatures can share to same square and wouldn't be "adjacent" apparently. First mounts/riders, second creatures of more than two size categories difference, third the squeezing rules (which were more prominent in 3.5 with the feat that allowed you to maintain that condition).