I've been playing D&D for about a year now so I still consider myself new. I at a Paladin Dwarf. I have a ram to summon. I don't know if I'm interpreting the PHB right but. Can you command a steed to attack if you are not mounted on it. My DM tells me no. But he's pretty stingy about giving us certain things that would give us an advantage.
Find steed is different from normal mounts. If a normal steed is controlling its own actions, it would be reasonable for the GM to often (usually) say it chooses not to attack, if a battle starts up next to a normal riding horse I would say it is more likely to flee than attack.
However find steed creates a stead that is intelligent (it understands your language) and is unusually loyal. I would rule that an unusually loyal mount does as you say (verbally or telepathically), a GM could say that a detailed "go to 10 foot south then 20 foot West and then 10 foot North [avoiding an opportunity attack] then attack the wizard" would be more than a free action for you but I would expect you to at least be able to order your steed to attack and the GM decides how your steed fulfils your command.
Thanks. It makes sense you could if it understands your language. Which mine does.
Yep, Find Steed is pretty neat. Anything you summon will be bumped up to minimum 6 Intelligence, understand one language of your choice (probably one you speak), and can communicate with you telepathically if you're within 1 mile of it.
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That sounds right to me. Nothing in the text says you cannot command it while not mounted and the rest of the text implies you can by describing how intelligent and loyal the steed is and how you fight as a single unit.
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I've been playing D&D for about a year now so I still consider myself new. I at a Paladin Dwarf. I have a ram to summon. I don't know if I'm interpreting the PHB right but. Can you command a steed to attack if you are not mounted on it. My DM tells me no. But he's pretty stingy about giving us certain things that would give us an advantage.
Yeah, your steed should be able to attack if you allow it to control it's own actions, according to :https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/combat#MountedCombat
Canto alla vita
alla sua bellezza
ad ogni sua ferita
ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty
To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me
The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
Thanks. It makes sense you could if it understands your language. Which mine does.
Find steed is different from normal mounts. If a normal steed is controlling its own actions, it would be reasonable for the GM to often (usually) say it chooses not to attack, if a battle starts up next to a normal riding horse I would say it is more likely to flee than attack.
However find steed creates a stead that is intelligent (it understands your language) and is unusually loyal. I would rule that an unusually loyal mount does as you say (verbally or telepathically), a GM could say that a detailed "go to 10 foot south then 20 foot West and then 10 foot North [avoiding an opportunity attack] then attack the wizard" would be more than a free action for you but I would expect you to at least be able to order your steed to attack and the GM decides how your steed fulfils your command.
Yep, Find Steed is pretty neat. Anything you summon will be bumped up to minimum 6 Intelligence, understand one language of your choice (probably one you speak), and can communicate with you telepathically if you're within 1 mile of it.
Canto alla vita
alla sua bellezza
ad ogni sua ferita
ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty
To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me
The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
I wondered this a while ago while playing a Paladin, and found this from Jeremy Crawford (rules designer of d&d) - https://www.sageadvice.eu/2016/08/05/can-i-command-my-find-steed-mount-attack-seperately-while-not-mounted/
That sounds right to me. Nothing in the text says you cannot command it while not mounted and the rest of the text implies you can by describing how intelligent and loyal the steed is and how you fight as a single unit.
"Not all those who wander are lost"