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17 questions linked to/from Does a controlled mount share its rider's turn?
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Mounted combat - move, attack, disengage, move. Possible? [duplicate]
Paladin, Mounted Combatant feat, Great axe, riding a Warhorse.
I'd like to ride 30ft to the mob, bash him with my axe, have the steed disengage, and ride 30ft back.
Can I do this?
Jeremy seems to ...
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RAW, can you break up turns between a rider and their controlled mount? [duplicate]
Can't seem to find clarification on this, it always just directs me to the Mounted Combat rule.
Mounted Combat
[...] The initiative of a controlled mount changes to match yours when you mount it. It ...
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Can a rider move using his mount, attack from his mount, then have the mount dash away?
I seem to have misunderstood the mounted combat rules. Reading them again it seems that the mount and rider are treated as separate entities but share initiative (this assumes a controlled mount, not ...
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Is there a 5e equivalent of the mounted lancers in 3.5?
I'm porting some content from 3.5e to 5e, and I've come to a part that has a group of npc paladins doing mounted combat with lances. Checking the 5e rules for lances, I don't see anything about doing ...
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Is initiative ordinal or numerical?
Is the term “initiative” in D&D 5e combat the number that you roll, or your order in the combat turn?
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When a controlled mount takes the Disengage action, does the rider still provoke an opportunity attack if he or she does not also Disengage?
Per the rules for mounted combat:
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,...
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About "dropping" a weapon after an attack
Let's say that after making an attack with my lance by stabbing it into an enemy, I leave the lance there (stab it into the enemy and just let go). Is this considered dropping the lance? And as such, ...
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What happens when two creatures actually share the same turn?
Related to this Q/A ("Does a controlled mount share its rider's turn?") where there doesn't seem to be a consensus on whether or not the rider and their mount actually share a turn.
I am left ...
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How does the Sentinel feat interact with the Mounted Combatant feat?
When a character with the Sentinel feat hits with an opportunity attack against an opponent with Mounted Combatant, does the mounted opponent need to stop moving?
The Sentinel feat (PHB, page 169) ...
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Does a Steel Defender mounted by an artificer still get its actions, if commanded?
Playing a human artificer battle smith with the spell Enlarge/Reduce, I want to use the Steel Defender as a mount. It is a medium size construct that becomes large size under the effects of the spell.
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Can you use your own movement separately from your mount's movement?
SevenSidedDie and myself came up with a quandary concerning Mounted Combat, or any mount at all, actually. When moving while riding, a mount that has been trained to take a rider or is otherwise ...
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Am I allowed to double-dip on my mount's turn, granting it extra dashes?
Here's a very silly situation that I'm sure would be easy to rule around, but as an exercise to understand the rules better, I'd still like to know how this works. It might even just be a variation of ...
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How does a Gnome Battle Smith artificer (UA) riding his iron defender control it?
I don't see any reason a gnome Battle Smith artificer (from the May 2019 UA) couldn't ride his iron defender RAW--it's got the appropriate anatomy and is one size larger.
But how is it "Controlled"? ...
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Moon Beam Damage Calculation for Multiple Targets
In D&D-5e, suppose my character casts moonbeam and two enemies start their turn inside the beam's radius. Would each creature's damage be calculated separately (2d10 for one and 2d10 for the ...
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Can I use Two-Weapon Fighting on my mount's turn?
Can I use the Ready action on my turn to specify that I will make a melee attack once in range of an enemy, use my mount to get to the enemy, attack the enemy with one melee weapon, and then also ...
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