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Archnon
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Mounted Combat and Mounted Archery

Post by Archnon » Sat Dec 21, 2019 8:09 am

I was just wondering what feats are required to play a mounted archer. The wiki says:

The Mounted Combat feat adds +1 melee Attack Bonus instead of the normal bonus. Mounted archery remains unmodified.

But I am not noticing any downgrade from using a bow on horseback without the mounted archery feat. My attack bonus does not drop. Is this feat completely obsolete? If this is so, the wiki should be updated.

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Re: Mounted Combat and Mounted Archery

Post by snobby-princess » Sat Dec 21, 2019 12:24 pm

I would like to add a question to this as well, in that, does the type of horse matter for these bonuses or is that just cosmetic (pack horse vs heavy war horse)?

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Re: Mounted Combat and Mounted Archery

Post by Jagel » Sat Dec 21, 2019 5:54 pm

Did you check the combat dialouge? No idea but some modifiers do not appear on the character sheet.

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Re: Mounted Combat and Mounted Archery

Post by Archnon » Sat Dec 21, 2019 6:11 pm

Jagel wrote:
Sat Dec 21, 2019 5:54 pm
Did you check the combat dialouge? No idea but some modifiers do not appear on the character sheet.
Yep :) This was the first thing I checked! I was getting the bonus from mounted combat feat but no penalty from using a bow.

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Re: Mounted Combat and Mounted Archery

Post by Royal Blood » Sat Dec 21, 2019 11:02 pm

The type of horse can be relevant to speed. I -think- they all have the same HP. But like elves on elven steeds are much much faster than on a pack horse for example.
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Re: Mounted Combat and Mounted Archery

Post by Kalos » Sun Dec 22, 2019 8:45 pm

Royal Blood wrote:
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Re: Mounted Combat and Mounted Archery

Post by Archnon » Sun Dec 22, 2019 9:18 pm

Still wondering on this. Any devs/Admin/DM out there with an answer to this question?

What purpose do these feats serve? Is this a bug or did the feats get changed not long ago?

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Re: Mounted Combat and Mounted Archery

Post by The Kriv » Wed Jan 01, 2020 5:13 pm

As I understand it... when you use a bow while mounted, you suffer a -4 attack penalty. The "Mounted Archery" feat reduces this penalty from -4 to -2.

If there are additional benefits, I am unaware of them.
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Re: Mounted Combat and Mounted Archery

Post by Zavandar » Mon Jan 06, 2020 9:56 pm

From what I have heard, the penalty for riding has been removed. Mounted combat adds one, with mounted archery adding another. You actually end up with a bonus to ab on horseback with these feats
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