huttj509
2010-05-02, 09:27 PM
Having trouble finding rules for this.
Situation: Big Bad flew into castle courtyard on a dragon and went to kill king. Party reaches courtyard and fights dragon. Halfling, realising the dragon has a saddle, wants to shadow step (swordsage maneuver, don't recall exact name) into the saddle. Well, I decide to allow it, because the maneuver doesn't say otherwise and it earns awesome points, but there was nothing for the mount TRYING to throw someone off that I could find. Closest was a DC 5 ride check for staying on a mount rearing up from being struck in battle, which seemed WAY too low.
It became moot, as I ruled that if the fighter/swordsage wanted to leap into the air and strike the dragon while the rogue was in the saddle (another maneuver), there'd be a 20% chance of hitting the halfling, and the fighter rolled a 16% (halfling said 'go for it'). One unconscious halfling later he slid out of the saddle and was no longer riding, but still wanna know thoughts on how to adjucate such a situation.
Situation: Big Bad flew into castle courtyard on a dragon and went to kill king. Party reaches courtyard and fights dragon. Halfling, realising the dragon has a saddle, wants to shadow step (swordsage maneuver, don't recall exact name) into the saddle. Well, I decide to allow it, because the maneuver doesn't say otherwise and it earns awesome points, but there was nothing for the mount TRYING to throw someone off that I could find. Closest was a DC 5 ride check for staying on a mount rearing up from being struck in battle, which seemed WAY too low.
It became moot, as I ruled that if the fighter/swordsage wanted to leap into the air and strike the dragon while the rogue was in the saddle (another maneuver), there'd be a 20% chance of hitting the halfling, and the fighter rolled a 16% (halfling said 'go for it'). One unconscious halfling later he slid out of the saddle and was no longer riding, but still wanna know thoughts on how to adjucate such a situation.