Seperate Riders From Mounts

[Thundersnow]

Remember when a certain newly-appointed southern captain dismounted before entering the caverns? Let's expand on that. Every rider should be able to dismount, fight and maneuver as its own distinct unit. Also, mounts should be able to function as quite powerful (if unruly) units of their own when losing their rider somehow.... Rampaging Gryphon after its dwarfish rider is shot off by a lucky volley of arrows, anyone? When a (potential) rider comes upon a masterless mount, the rider may climb into the saddle of the bewildered beast if it is of a kind which the rider is able to ride. This brings up the question of if the elvish druids who raised them as mothers can ride them perhaps even more handily than the burly dwarves? Elven steeds should similarly be shareable, as the elf-raised horses know the forest well enough to grant any non-elvish rider the ability to pass through the trees. Wolves of the goblins should become (through fell magic) able to attain huge sizes, the largest even allowing a troll to ride. Naturally, lawful characters should find it difficult if not impossible to tame chaotic beasts, and vice-versa, although neutral characters enjoy no hindrances with either. Hell, I'll bet a large enough drake carry a smaller rider like straight-outta DragonLance, G.

Which brings us to riders taking passengers on their mounts.....

[zookeeper]

You can do that if you want. It won't happen in mainline. So this thread is strictly for discussing it for UMC use.

[Turuk]

Agreed with zookeeper, there is nothing stopping you from doing this on your own to include in a UMC campaign. In fact, there is already a campaign where the player puts his units on horses (I cannot remember it, maybe someone will post here to point it out for you).

Rampaging Gryphon after its dwarfish rider is shot off by a lucky volley of arrows, anyone?

Even this can be done, have an event that fires when the Gryphon Rider dies that replaces it with a regular gryphon.


All it would take is doing the three sprites for each unit (mounted rider, dismounted rider, and creature) as well as the coding for their interactions. As noted already, be aware that the chance of the inclusion into mainline is nonexistent.

[Iris]

Unless the UMC in which that is used has a chance of going into mainline. That's usually close to non-existent, but it's something.

[DEATH_is_undead]

Isn't this a FPT? I've seen it before...

[Iris]

Isn't this a FPT? I've seen it before...

Frequently Proposed Truck?

Sure...

[DEATH_is_undead]

Isn't this a FPT? I've seen it before...

Frequently Proposed Truck?

Sure...

Truck? How about 'Topic' ?

[governor]

FPI (I = Idea) my young padowan.

lol.

[Limabean]

sounds like a great idea........if you make everything.
sprites, coding, etc. seems like a lot of effort for not such a large gain. If you think differently then do it.

[Turuk]

As this is venturing off-topic a bit, can be done, and therefore is not a new idea... I am putting a soft-lock on this. So if you post anything more, make it relevant or applicable to the author's original post. If if this is taken in the direction of someone actually wanting to do the work for this, feel free to continue to discuss at length.


Updated the FPI list to include this suggestion--Thrawn

[Dragon280]

I think this would unnecessarily increase the complexity of the game.

[Turuk]

I think this would unnecessarily increase the complexity of the game

Read the post above yours.

Locked.