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Movement During a Charge: You must move before your attack, not after. You must move at least 10 feet (2 squares) and may move up to double your speed directly toward the designated opponent. If you move a distance equal to your speed or less, you can also draw a weapon during a charge attack if your base attack bonus is at least +1.
You must have a clear path toward the opponent, and nothing can hinder your movement (such as difficult terrain or obstacles). You must move to the closest space from which you can attack the opponent. If this space is occupied or otherwise blocked, you can't charge. If any line from your starting space to the ending space passes through a square that blocks movement, slows movement, or contains a creature (even an ally), you can't charge. Helpless creatures don't stop a charge.
If you don't have line of sight to the opponent at the start of your turn, you can't charge that opponent.
You can't take a 5-foot step in the same round as a charge.
The subject can tread on air as if walking on solid ground. Moving upward is similar to walking up a hill. The maximum upward or downward angle possible is 45 degrees, at a rate equal to half the air walker's normal speed.
A strong wind (21+ miles per hour) can push the subject along or hold it back. At the end of a creature's turn each round, the wind blows the air walker 5 feet for each 5 miles per hour of wind speed. The creature may be subject to additional penalties in exceptionally strong or turbulent winds, such as loss of control over movement or physical damage from being buffeted about.
Should the spell duration expire while the subject is still aloft, the magic fails slowly. The subject floats downward 60 feet per round for 1d6 rounds. If it reaches the ground in that amount of time, it lands safely. If not, it falls the rest of the distance, taking 1d6 points of damage per 10 feet of fall. Since dispelling a spell effectively ends it, the subject also descends in this way if the air walk spell is dispelled, but not if it is negated by an antimagic field.
Nothing in the description of movement during a charge says it doesn't work with air walk.
Nothing in the description of air walk says you can't charge.
Conclusion: A creature under the effects of air walk can charge normally.
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All this for PC's/intelligent creatures/etc.
If it's a mount/AC doing the charging then, per the spell text (just checked the PRD, still there in PF), it must be Handle Animaled. Either easily w/ the approp. trick or pushed w/o.
For an actual mount or animal companion, yes. For a horse-like construct via phantom steed, I'm not so sure it's necessary.
For an actual mount or animal companion, yes. For a horse-like construct via phantom steed, I'm not so sure it's necessary.
Agreed. As it's a corner case I think it might best fit as an "Etc."
I would say, with the "Can't fight" note of the Phantom Steed spell I would check with a GM first as to how broadly he defines that covering (there were threads before on the RAW of them charging, I forget how they ended).