2.49 Riding skill

Governing characteristics: CO, WP

Represents: The skill of riding a mount or driving a vehicle pulled by a team without falling off.

Broad specialisms:

• A particular type of mount (e.g. horses, camels, elephants, dragons, birds, wolves, etc.) or vehicle (chariots/carts, sleds, etc.)
• Remaining mounted
• Fighting when mounted
• Riding/driving speed
• Steering a vehicle
• Pacifying a mount/team

Narrow specialisms:

• A particular individual mount or team
• Remaining mounted when struck
• Remaining mounted when riding over obstacles
• Remaining mounted when mount rears or bucks
• Remaining mounted when travelling long distances at speed
• Attacking/parrying with a particular type of weapon when mounted
• Combat speed when mounted
• Dodging when mounted
• Judging another's Riding skill
• Judging what a mount or team is about to do
• Judging quality of a mount or team
• Training mounts

Use with the following characteristics in dice rolls covering:

The type of mount and riding equipment (in particular, saddle and stirrups) may provide modifiers to Riding dice rolls.