How Does Trick Riding Work?

[Emmit Svenson]

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Mounted Combat: Once per round when your mount is hit in combat, you may attempt a Ride check (as an immediate action) to negate the hit. The hit is negated if your Ride check result is greater than the opponent's attack roll.

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Trick Riding:While wearing light or no armor, you do not need to make Ride skill checks for any task listed in the Ride skill with a DC of 15 or lower. You do not take a –5 penalty for riding a mount bareback. You can make a check using Mounted Combat to negate a hit on your mount twice per round instead of just once.

You may only make one immadiate action per round.

Does Trick Riding give you a 1/round free action that works like the immediate action from Mounted combat? Does Trick Riding allow you to spend an immediate action to both make a ride check to avoid an attack, and make another later in the same round? Does Trick Riding allow you make two checks when you use the Mounted Combat action to negate a single hit? Or is Trick Riding actually unusable?

[SlimGauge]

Emmit Svenson wrote:

Does Trick Riding allow you to spend an immediate action to both make a ride check to avoid an attack, and make another later in the same round?

This. The first check to avoid a hit on your mount works just like Mounted Combat states. The immediate action is spent.

If your mount takes a second hit in the same round, Trick Riding allows you to make a second check (having already spent your immediate action). But you had to have the immediate action to spend for the first one to even get to the second one.