I'm pretty sure saddles are implied to include stirrups; here's their rules text:
Saddes. A military saddle braces the rider, helping you keep your seat on an active mount in battle. 1t gives you advantage on any check you make to remain mounted. An exotic saddle is required for riding any aquatic or flying mount.
Thing is, you don't make checks to remain mounted - you make Dex saves:
If an effect moves your mount against its will while you're on it,you must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw or fall off the mount, landing prone in a space within 5 feet of it. If you're knocked prone while mounted, you must make the same saving throw.
I'm assuming most people house rule this so saddles, you know, do something, and I'm wondering how people are ruling this at their tables. I've included all the options that make sense to me: keeping the RAW, committing to Dex saves, committing to the only Dex skill check that makes sense, committing to a raw Dex check so proficiency won't apply, and committing to a non-Dex skill check because it seems thematically appropriate. Since odds are you use some other ruling at your table, I've included an Other in the poll, and I hope people comment with how their table handles saddles.
My campaign has non-mounts (we're riding magic items) and my GM wants to port the mounted rules over to nerf the items with dice rolls. I'm trying to help him work out which rolls are particularly popular and why.
Like DxJxC, this isn't something that has ever come up in any of my games ever, so my answer comes from a place of "what I would do" rather than "what I do." But I would make "stay mounted" rolls Dexterity (land vehicles) checks, and the saddle would confer advantage on such checks.
Like DxJxC, this isn't something that has ever come up in any of my games ever, so my answer comes from a place of "what I would do" rather than "what I do." But I would make "stay mounted" rolls Dexterity (land vehicles) checks, and the saddle would confer advantage on such checks.
I'd also throw an animal handling check (instead of a dex save) into the mix. If a character is proficient in the skill, to let them get some use from something they'd invested in.
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I'm pretty sure saddles are implied to include stirrups; here's their rules text:
Thing is, you don't make checks to remain mounted - you make Dex saves:
I'm assuming most people house rule this so saddles, you know, do something, and I'm wondering how people are ruling this at their tables. I've included all the options that make sense to me: keeping the RAW, committing to Dex saves, committing to the only Dex skill check that makes sense, committing to a raw Dex check so proficiency won't apply, and committing to a non-Dex skill check because it seems thematically appropriate. Since odds are you use some other ruling at your table, I've included an Other in the poll, and I hope people comment with how their table handles saddles.
NGL, mounts have vary rarely come up in my games, and mounted combat and checks to stay on never came up.
My campaign has non-mounts (we're riding magic items) and my GM wants to port the mounted rules over to nerf the items with dice rolls. I'm trying to help him work out which rolls are particularly popular and why.
Like DxJxC, this isn't something that has ever come up in any of my games ever, so my answer comes from a place of "what I would do" rather than "what I do." But I would make "stay mounted" rolls Dexterity (land vehicles) checks, and the saddle would confer advantage on such checks.
Bold, yet fair. I like it.
Interesting, that's further afield than I thought people were going to go.
It does seem sensible to do this.
No saddle = disadvantage if a roll is required
Saddle = normal roll
Military Saddle = advantage in the published situation(s).
Would you two (Kotath and Farling) keep the relevant dice roll a Dex save, or change it to something else?
I'd also throw an animal handling check (instead of a dex save) into the mix. If a character is proficient in the skill, to let them get some use from something they'd invested in.