One of my players plays a Gnome Paladin (lvl 9) with a medium size boar mount.
He plans to have reduce person cast permanently on his Gnome.
Will this affect his ability to ride his mount?
What, small weapon damage isn't bad enough for him? Remeember if he does that he'll be reduced to using Tiny weapons which go one die step smaller in damage. And you don't even want to think about how far south his CMD will go.
Is having a +1 size AC worth that much?
He does this for the +2 Dex, which he needs for Improved Precise Shot. He does almost all of his damage with smite evil and deadly aim anway - the tiny weapon will not bother him much.
One of my players plays a Gnome Paladin (lvl 9) with a medium size boar mount. He plans to have reduce person cast permanently on his Gnome. Will this affect his ability to ride his mount?
The only problem I can see, per the Ride rules, is that he will not be able to use the fast mount and fast dismount aspects of the ride skill:
You can't use fast mount or dismount on a mount more than one size category larger than yourself.
One of my players plays a Gnome Paladin (lvl 9) with a medium size boar mount.
He plans to have reduce person cast permanently on his Gnome.
Will this affect his ability to ride his mount?
As others have said he won't be able to fast mount/dismount if the boar is medium sized.
Now if you could have some way for the Paladin to cast Reduce Person on the boar, then it could be made permanent (say via a scroll of it UMD'd by the paladin).
But perhaps you don't need to bother with fast mount/dismount,
James
Thanks all, that was helpful.
The boar will stay size medium of course. It has been very effective in melee so far.