A large creature, such as a warhorse, is 10x10. Which I take to mean 10ft tall by 10ft long. On a battle map where every grid is 5ft, would a large creature take up 4 squares (suggesting it is 10ft long by 10ft wide) or just two squares to represent length? I need to know to work out how mounted combat would work. If it is 4 squares then to reach any target would require the rider to use their movement to climb over their mount?
Don’t think of it as direct size. A warhorse is indeed size large and it Controls a 10ft square, or two x two squares on a battle grid. Your horse isn’t that big, it’s just the area it controls. Imagine you on the horse moving about slightly in that big square as you fight. You as the rider can reach all 12 squares around it with a 5ft reach.
Yes. A mounted combatant is treated as being a creature of the mount's size, so if you had a weapon with a 10ft reach, you would threaten everything within 10ft of the horse. If you enlarge the horse, your threat range increases accordingly.
Yep. My paladin with a glaive and the Mounted Combatant, Polearm Master and Sentinel feats was quite a force on an open field. Could reach 32 squares around him
If the large creature is placed on a square grid, takes up 4 squares. If the large creature is placed on a hex grid, takes up 3 hexes. Most playable characters are entitled to at least 5 foot reach, however, the extension of reach is greatly determined by the information inside the stat block as the others inside this thread have mentioned.
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A large creature, such as a warhorse, is 10x10. Which I take to mean 10ft tall by 10ft long. On a battle map where every grid is 5ft, would a large creature take up 4 squares (suggesting it is 10ft long by 10ft wide) or just two squares to represent length? I need to know to work out how mounted combat would work. If it is 4 squares then to reach any target would require the rider to use their movement to climb over their mount?
Don’t think of it as direct size. A warhorse is indeed size large and it Controls a 10ft square, or two x two squares on a battle grid. Your horse isn’t that big, it’s just the area it controls. Imagine you on the horse moving about slightly in that big square as you fight. You as the rider can reach all 12 squares around it with a 5ft reach.
Previous editions have distinguished between [Tall] and [Long], but in 5e, all monster tokens are square, (or cubes in 3D).
With a reach weapon you would be able to reach an additional row of squares?
Yes. A mounted combatant is treated as being a creature of the mount's size, so if you had a weapon with a 10ft reach, you would threaten everything within 10ft of the horse. If you enlarge the horse, your threat range increases accordingly.
Yep. My paladin with a glaive and the Mounted Combatant, Polearm Master and Sentinel feats was quite a force on an open field. Could reach 32 squares around him
According to Dungeon Master's Guide, page 251...
If the large creature is placed on a square grid, takes up 4 squares.
If the large creature is placed on a hex grid, takes up 3 hexes.
Most playable characters are entitled to at least 5 foot reach, however, the extension of reach is greatly determined by the information inside the stat block as the others inside this thread have mentioned.