Riding Movement – Action

Riding rules apply to riding a horse, mule or other trained mount.

While riding, Tears expended for movement or actions are spent by the mount, and riding checks are made instead of Vigor checks for athletic moves.

Mounting Cost:

	Saddled	Fast Mount (Saddled)*	Unsaddled	Saddling
Low	3S	10S	10S	5S
Mid	2S	7S	5S	3S
High	1S	5S	3S	2S
Expert	1S	3S	1S	2S

Mounted Penalties

Mounted Penalties apply to any skill or versus action

	1 Handed	2 Handed
Low	-2 Skill, +2 Difficulty (If applicable)	Unable to Perform
Mid	-1 Skill, +1 Difficulty (If applicable)	-2 Skill, +2 Difficulty (If applicable)
High	+1 Difficulty (If applicable)	-1 Skill, +1 Difficulty (If applicable)
Expert	No Penalty	+1 Difficulty (If applicable)

Riding Maneuvers

Taking certain actions with a mount requires an additional check, usually failure will result in the animal simply just not taking the action.

Riding Maneuvers is done using a Sweat Check alongside the movement actions.

Walk is base movement, Run is a single + movement, Gallop is using both + movements in the same round

	Walk	Run	Gallop
Turn (Change direction mid Round)	None	1AP	2AP
Jump	6AP	2AP	3AP
Stop / Gallop	None	1AP	2AP
Face Harm / Fear*	2AP	4AP	6AP

Skill Modifier

Low: 1x

Mid: 1.5x (Round Down)

High: 2x

Expert: 3x