Fun Question - Can an Ogre Pass Thru The Eye Of A Needle?


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Lantern Lodge

You have a Large Ogre with the Undersized Mount feat riding a Large Wolf with the Narrow Frame feat. An opponent runs into a building using a standard 5' doorway and the Ogre pursues at the Wolf's full movement. The Wolf easily passes through the doorway without slowing as the Narrow Frame feat allows it to move in a 5' space without taking the half-movement restriction of squeezing. The Ogre does not have Narrow Frame or any other similar ability/feat to move at normal speed while squeezing, so would normally have to move at half speed while squeezing through the doorway, but the Ogre is not moving, the Wolf is.

What happens?

1. The Ogre's player argues that the Ogre is not "moving" so is not slowed while squeezing through the doorway - the Ogre and Wolf pass through the door.

2. The GM decides that the Ogre is moving even if the Wolf is using its action to move (as per the Mounted Combat rules), then describes a hilarious situation where the Ogre forcefully dismounts himself as his Wolf zooms through the doorway while the Ogre gets stuck (and everyone has a good laugh).

3. Something else?

Shadow Lodge

I would make him make a ride check to hold on


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Mounted Combat section of CRB Combat chapter wrote:
You move at its speed, but the mount uses its action to move.

Either the mount slows to half speed or the ogre is dismounted and the mount continues through the doorway. I would say that this is a choice that the ogre's controller has to make and there may be an associated Ride check.

Grand Lodge

I just re-read the Narrow Frame feat, it only negates the AC penalty, it still slows you down.

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