Are there any plans to better clarify the rules on Mounted Combat? JC talked to Greg Tito a while back on his show about Mounted Combat, which is good, but it doesn’t write it in stone for the rules. Is there something in particular in the mounted combat rules you're unclear on?
— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) January 19, 2020
1/?. Opportunity Attacks (OA). “You…don’t provoke an OA when when someone or something moves you without using your movement, action, or reaction.” But with mounted combat there is a grey area. Although the PC specifically is not moving, the PC is moving by… 2. …controlling the movement of the mount. So, the PC can have the mount take the Disengage attack and the PC can do a drive by attack and not take an OA because the mount is moving them? I wish there were concrete rules on OA's with mounted combat. Thx Dan.
— D. Mellow is not well (@goodgulfgas) January 19, 2020
PHB pg 198, “Controlling a Mount.”
“…if the mount provokes an opportunity attack while you’re on it, the attacker can target you or the mount.” Right, but what if you have the mount take the disengage action? The mount wouldn’t take an OA, but the rider would, or wouldn’t they. The rider is being moved by the mount, but it’s only because the rider is directing the mount to do so. Could all be cleared up with a sentence.
— D. Mellow is not well (@goodgulfgas) January 19, 2020
The rules cover it. Directing the mount doesn't use the rider's action, reaction, or movement.
If the mount Disengages, there is no opportunity attack provoked.
— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) January 20, 2020
The rules cover it, but it’s a few rules that need to be pieced together. Squeeze what you just wrote into the PHB.
“Directing the mount doesn’t use the rider’s action, reaction, or movement. If the mount Disengages, there is no opportunity attack provoked (by the rider).” If it took any of those things it would explicitly say so. 🙂
— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) January 20, 2020
If it took any of those things it would explicitly say so. 🙂
— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) January 20, 2020