You can see the combat potential within each mount you ride and know how to pull it out while riding it. You gain the following benefits:
- You gain proficiency in the Animal Handling skill if you don't already have it.
- You have advantage on Wisdom (Animal Handling) when attempting to train a Beast as a mount.
- With one hour of work or when you finish a long rest, you can bond with a trained mount that has a CR less than your proficiency bonus. While atop a bonded mount, you can use a bonus action to instruct your mount to take an action from its stat block. You can't have more than one bonded mount at a time. If you bond with a mount while you already have a bonded mount, you lose your bond with the previous mount.
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Posted Dec 27, 2021but what does the bond do?
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Posted Dec 30, 2021Maybe the wording wasn't clear, but the bond allows the player to use its bonus action to instruct the mount that was bonded (that shares the bond with the player) to take an action from it's stat block. Essentially, the bond is intended to allow a controlled mount to fight alongside its rider, which is otherwise something that is not possible with the rules as written in the Players Handbook. For more information on controlled vs independent mounts, you can look to Chapter 9 of the PHB. Hope this clears some things up!