Mounted Combat / Moving without using Movement

[Varthanna]

Hi all, I have two quick questions I didn't find looking through the rules:

1) If a mount moves through a threatened area and provokes AoOs, can the enemy take their AoO against the rider, instead?

2) If someone is tied behind a mount (a horse for this example), and the horse moves, pulling the person along behind them, does the person provoke AoOs?

I know you dont provoke if you are Dragged or Bullrushed, and most other types of forced movement call it out as not provoking, but I couldnt find anything on these matters.

[AerynTahlro]

1) Yes. Both the mount and the rider are entering & leaving the threatened square. The enemy could take the AoO against the horse or the rider (or both with Combat Reflexes and sufficient dex)

2) Hm.. I would say that it does provoke an AoO. The person being pulled is still entering & leaving a threatened square. The horse isn't performing a combat maneuver in pulling the person along, so I'd just classify it as unwilling movement (think along the lines of Command, you could have a target run past enemies provoking AoO's).

[Kantrip]

1) I would rule "Yes". You have the Ride skill with "cover" as an immediate action to allow a character drop down to the side and attempt a ride check to use the mount for cover. If the AoO didn't include the rider as a target the skill would be unneeded.

2) I would say "No" on this one. The idea behind Dragged and Bullrushed not provoking is to prevent generated AoO's when it's not the character's turn. Being dragged behind a horse would fall into that.