Timeline for How do I determine if a creature is too intelligent to be a controlled mount?
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| Sep 10, 2019 at 23:00 | comment | added | Rikkard | This suggests that a mount summoned with either of these spells supersedes the normal rules for intelligent and unintelligent mounts. Maybe the discrepancy between an INT 6 riding horse and an INT 10 Pegasus made them rule one way for mounts summoned, avoiding the confusion a ruling on the intelligence score a mount must have to be considered intelligent would have in the case of these spells. In the end, this makes control undead the only (non-spell) rule i found that explicitly mentions an Intelligence threshold for creatures to be considered intelligent. | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 22:30 | comment | added | Matt Vincent | Crawford Tweeted: "Find steed / find greater steed—when you ride the mount in combat, you decide whether it follows the rules for a controlled or an independent mount." twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/970111071955464198 | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 22:12 | comment | added | Rikkard | I think you might have exposed a double standard between creatures that aren't mounts, and creatures that are mounts in 5e. | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 21:54 | comment | added | Rikkard | Great point, the find steed spell gives the player an unusually intelligent mount, contrasting it against its regular counterpart. Jeremy Crawfords remarks: "The mount summoned by the find steed spell serves the summoner. It isn't an independent creature." Unfortunately Wizard's of the Coast has developed a reputation to bend the rules specifically for spells (the jump spell letting you jump farther then your movement would allow for example). So Jeremy Crawford's advice on this topic could be seen in the "but only if you use magic" category, further validating your point. | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 21:22 | comment | added | NotArch | It might help to look at find steed which is an unusually intelligent mount with an INT of 6. | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 20:59 | comment | added | Rikkard | Couldn't find anything, Everytime the intelligence of a creature is mentioned though the stat is used as an indicator on how to roleplay it. Making it seem that an intelligence of let's say 10 is universal among creature types. | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 20:51 | comment | added | NotArch | I like what you found, but I do wonder if there's a specific vs general case here where intelligent undead are different than intelligent [other creature type]. | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 20:46 | history | answered | Rikkard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |