🐢 Mounted Combat

🦣 A knight charging into battle on a warhorse, a wizard casting spells from the back of a griffon, or a cleric soaring through the sky on a pegasus all enjoy the benefits of speed and mobility that a mount can provide.

🦏 A willing creature that is at least one size larger than you and that has an appropriate anatomy can serve as a mount, using the following rules.

🎠 Mounting and Dismounting

🛵 Once during your move, you can mount a creature that is within 5 feet of you or dismount.

🏍️ Doing so costs an amount of movement equal to half your speed.

🚲 For example, if your speed is 30 feet, you must spend 15 feet of movement to mount a horse.

🚴🏻‍♂️ Therefore, you can’t mount it if you don’t have 15 feet of movement left or if your speed is 0.

🚵🏻‍♀️ If an effect moves your mount against its will while you’re on it, you must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw or fall off the mount, landing prone in a space within 5 feet of it.

🏇🏻 If you’re knocked prone while mounted, you must make the same saving throw.

🦒 If your mount is knocked prone, you can use your reaction to dismount it as it falls and land on your feet.

🐫 Otherwise, you are dismounted and fall prone in a space within 5 feet it.

🏇🏻 Controlling a Mount

🎠 You can either control the mount or allow it to act independently.

🐴 Intelligent creatures, such as dragons, act independently.

🐪 You can control a mount only if it has been trained to accept a rider.

🐎 Domesticated horses, donkeys, and similar creatures are assumed to have such training.

🐐 The initiative of a controlled mount changes to match yours when you mount it.

🐏 It moves as you direct it, and it has only three action options: Dash, Disengage, and Dodge.

🦌 A controlled mount can move and act even on the turn that you mount it.

🦙 An independent mount retains its place in the initiative order.

🦤 Bearing a rider puts no restrictions on the actions the mount can take, and it moves and acts as it wishes.

🐘 It might flee from combat, rush to attack and devour a badly injured foe, or otherwise act against your wishes.

🦖 In either case, if the mount provokes an opportunity attack while you’re on it, the attacker can target you or the mount.