Mounted Combat - Mount Morale

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Karjus
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Mounted Combat - Mount Morale

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It would be nice if mounts potentially got a morale bonus based of its riders skill.
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Or if interacting with your mount - petting, brushing, and other props, would give morale bonuses to your steed.

It's a bit silly, but can bards give morale to steeds? Likewise, can physickers give morale therapy to steeds?
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Karjus wrote: Thu Jun 22, 2023 11:41 am It would be nice if mounts potentially got a morale bonus based of its riders skill.
I know this isn't what you meant, but it also serves to answer Dennis' question as well. It also makes me chuckle.
Your mount can receive a morale bonus based on its rider's skill. That skill just happens to be storytelling. To be clear, bards can boost their morale. I call it horse whispering. However, physickers cannot, as theirs is more mundane.
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Karjus wrote: Thu Jun 22, 2023 11:41 am It would be nice if mounts potentially got a morale bonus based of its riders skill.
I want to make sure I'm parsing this request correctly: Do you mean that mounts would get a potential reroll to their attacks (trample, kick, etc.) based on the rider's Riding skill, with their occurrence similar to how morale rerolls work? That is to say: A Riding skill roll to determine the chance that one's mount might get a reroll when it performs one of its mount attacks?
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Correct. I think just applying rerolls to mount abilities might be a touch too strong, but having skill at as potentional pseudo morale and give a chance of a reroll might be a good compromise?

Mounts do exceptionally well early on, but their abilities really start to suffer later on against opponents of like level. Probably better to have the bonus only apply to the active attacks, and not the passive as well. Justify this as the rider actually taking the effort to focus their mount which is why the skill is important.

Could possibly be done so it varies instead of just 1 reroll?
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