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I hate D and D 5S mounted combat rules
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and it it's not for the weird
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interactions with initiative it's not
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for the weird interactions with movement
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my biggest gripe with 5 mounted combat
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rules is simply how it handles space and
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positioning ask yourself if you're
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playing on a grid when you mount a horse
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where does your character go because
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there's no specific explanation there
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you move into your Mount space but you
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don't cease to be a creature in your own
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right you don't adopt your mount's space
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which means your character still needs
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to exist on one of the squares of your
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mount's space so let's say that you're a
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human you're medium size you occupy one
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5T Cube and you mount a horse which is
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large size so 10t Square 10t Cube
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whatever uh you as the writer must exist
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in one of the spaces inside that horse's
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space so if we're looking at things in
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three dimensions the horse occupies four
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cubes on the ground and four cubes up
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high because it is large size where does
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your character go which of those cubes
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are you by the left foot are you by the
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right hunch are you up high are you down
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low what happens when the horse moves
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what happens if the horse turns where is
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your character the best approximation I
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can think of is your character character
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effectively te- poses somewhere in space
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around your horse but there's no clear
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answer and Jeremy Crawford back when
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Dragon talk was still a podcast Jeremy
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Crawford went on the podcast and discuss
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the mounted combat rule for 20 30
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minutes something like that never
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explained any of this where does your
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character go we got an entire new
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version of the 5e rules they didn't
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touch Ed combat one word they had the
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opportunity to fix it and they did
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nothing I hate 5es mounted combat rules
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so much that I started a podcast which
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is now in its fifth season
