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"When you attack a creature smaller than your mount that is on foot, you get the +1 bonus on melee attacks for being on higher ground. If your mount moves more than 5 feet, you can only make a single melee attack. Essentially, you have to wait until the mount gets to your enemy before attacking, so you can't make a full attack. Even at your mount's full speed, you don't take any penalty on melee attacks while mounted."
Can a mount's rider make a single melee attack if the mount makes two move actions during a round, whether move (mount), move (mount), attack (rider); or move (mount), attack (rider), move (mount).
Argument in favor of Yes: A rider can make a single melee attack if the mount moves more than five feet, and there is no penalty on the melee attack if the mount moves it's full speed. While there is no in-game definition of full speed, this is an indication of a double move. The mount and rider have a different pool of actions and these can be interspersed in the shared initiative count as desired.
Argument in favor of No: A rider can make a single melee attack if the mount moves more than five feet, and there is no penalty on the melee attack if the mount moves it's full speed. While there is no in-game definition of full speed, this is an indication of the full distance of a single move. The statement about waiting for the mount getting to the enemy before attacking refers to the shared initiative count; while actions can be interspersed, the mount and rider are constrained by the total time of the six second round such that the combined sequential actions cannot exceed the total of the actions normally allotted to a single character.
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Mounted Combat needs to have a playtest for a new method of handling it, just like stealth received.
I think that would be a bit overboard, Cheapy. A few small clarifications and everything will be peachy-keen.
Last I heard it's on the back burner, but they intend to follow up eventually. Who knows when that'll be, but I'm hoping it'll be around the time of the 6th printing of the CRB. There are already going to be a lot of good changes there.
More refined mounted combat rules would definitely be nice, especially since there's a class that specializes in it.
What's this about updated sneak rules? Is there somewhere I can find these?