I've been doing some looking around to find information about a Centaur Cavalier idea I had (certainly not the first to have it), but I can't find any answers to my question. I've seen that Centaurs don't count as mounted for the sake of using a lance, understandable. However, could it still be counted as mounted when playing as the Cavalier subclass for the fighter? I've also seen that Cavalier abilities don't necessarily specify that you have to be mounted to use them, and I'm aware that being my own mount would make some parts of the ability pointless such as "Born To The Saddle". So my question is it worth being a Cavalier? Or would it make more sense just to be a different kind of fighter?
From what I can see, there is no technical aspect of the Centaur race that forbids or restricts it in any way from riding a mount in the same way that any other race would.
It may look a little "odd" though. :)
There's also nothing that would allow it to function as mounted, without being mounted.
In reference to whether it's worth it to still play a cavalier when you can't be mounted, I would say yes since there aren't really any cavalier skills that actually require (or play better) you to be mounted.
well given some of them reference and are about staying on ur mount or landing safely if thrown off, some abilities/features would need to be rework to be useful and not basically wasted, "born to the saddle" being the main if only one needed, would basically be a homebrewed variant
Yeah but Born To the Saddle is more fluff anyways. It's not exactly taking the place of anything since you also get the Unwavering Mark ability at the same level. Same as the Horizon Walker's Detect Portal ability which they get at the same time as Planar Warrior. They'll likely not be detecting portals all day long, but it's there if you want it.
I'm looking for an all centaur group who wants to form Voltron.
I don't think centaurs can ride on each other because the rules say a mount has to have theright anatomy to be ridden.
He was referring to the UA version. Equine build originally had a line that read something like "you can serve as a mount for a medium or smaller creature."
"Proper anatomy" is subjective, and obviously a DM was not going to let 3+ centaurs ride each other, but RAW didn't prevent it.
WotC removed the line though, so now centaurs can only be mounts to small creatures unless DM says otherwise (I still don't think they would let centaurs ride each other).
I've been doing some looking around to find information about a Centaur Cavalier idea I had (certainly not the first to have it), but I can't find any answers to my question. I've seen that Centaurs don't count as mounted for the sake of using a lance, understandable. However, could it still be counted as mounted when playing as the Cavalier subclass for the fighter? I've also seen that Cavalier abilities don't necessarily specify that you have to be mounted to use them, and I'm aware that being my own mount would make some parts of the ability pointless such as "Born To The Saddle". So my question is it worth being a Cavalier? Or would it make more sense just to be a different kind of fighter?
Centaurs don't count as mounted RAW. This would be a question to ask your DM.
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D&D Beyond FoundersFrom what I can see, there is no technical aspect of the Centaur race that forbids or restricts it in any way from riding a mount in the same way that any other race would.
It may look a little "odd" though. :)
There's also nothing that would allow it to function as mounted, without being mounted.
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Centaurs can let Medium creatures ride on them.
Centaurs are Medium Creatures.
I'm looking for an all centaur group who wants to form Voltron.
Sadly that bit got removed in the final version...also I'm playing a centaur as a mount for a gnome pc, movement is.... frustrating.
In reference to whether it's worth it to still play a cavalier when you can't be mounted, I would say yes since there aren't really any cavalier skills that actually require (or play better) you to be mounted.
well given some of them reference and are about staying on ur mount or landing safely if thrown off, some abilities/features would need to be rework to be useful and not basically wasted, "born to the saddle" being the main if only one needed, would basically be a homebrewed variant
Yeah but Born To the Saddle is more fluff anyways. It's not exactly taking the place of anything since you also get the Unwavering Mark ability at the same level. Same as the Horizon Walker's Detect Portal ability which they get at the same time as Planar Warrior. They'll likely not be detecting portals all day long, but it's there if you want it.
I don't think centaurs can ride on each other because the rules say a mount has to have theright anatomy to be ridden.
He was referring to the UA version. Equine build originally had a line that read something like "you can serve as a mount for a medium or smaller creature."
"Proper anatomy" is subjective, and obviously a DM was not going to let 3+ centaurs ride each other, but RAW didn't prevent it.
WotC removed the line though, so now centaurs can only be mounts to small creatures unless DM says otherwise (I still don't think they would let centaurs ride each other).
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