Compression and Mounted combat

[Hobokhajiit]

Say if I gave my mount a belt of the weasel, would I be able to ride it indoors whilst it's under the effects of compression but not squeezing?

[Dr Styx]

Your Mount has Compression, you don't. you would be prest against the ceiling.

[Velisruna]

You can still ride it but you would still take the squeezing penalties even if your mount doesn't. You share your mounts space so in spaces less than your mount's size normally you both would be squeezing. With the compression ability, your mount doesn't squeeze until you get to even smaller spaces but if you don't have that ability yourself, you still occupy more space than is available and are squeezing.

[Hobokhajiit]

Alrighty then, two belts of the weasel shall be needed.

[Gauss]

Velisruna wrote:

You can still ride it but you would still take the squeezing penalties even if your mount doesn't. You share your mounts space so in spaces less than your mount's size normally you both would be squeezing. With the compression ability, your mount doesn't squeeze until you get to even smaller spaces but if you don't have that ability yourself, you still occupy more space than is available and are squeezing.

This is incorrect.

If your mount takes up less space then so do you. You take up your mounts space, no more, no less.

If you are medium sized and riding a medium sized mount (possible within the rules) then you are occupying a medium sized space.

[Velisruna]

Gauss wrote:

Velisruna wrote:

You can still ride it but you would still take the squeezing penalties even if your mount doesn't. You share your mounts space so in spaces less than your mount's size normally you both would be squeezing. With the compression ability, your mount doesn't squeeze until you get to even smaller spaces but if you don't have that ability yourself, you still occupy more space than is available and are squeezing.

This is incorrect.

If your mount takes up less space then so do you. You take up your mounts space, no more, no less.

If you are medium sized and riding a medium sized mount (possible within the rules) then you are occupying a medium sized space.

Your mount still takes up the same amount of space. It just isn't squeezing as compression alters when you are squeezing or not. You also never take up more space than your mount as you share the space your mount occupies.