D&D 5E Travel Questions !

[maritimo80]

Our group we have some questions we would like to ask for help from all of you please:


1. A character riding a camel or horse in a desert (difficult terrain) walks with half drive or be mounted walks with the normal movement? Are there any animals that ignore difficult terrain?


2- A character can move mounted Slow (Travel pace PHB 182) and use Stealth?


3- A character forcing the march (forced march PHB 181) MOUNTED for example 12 hours a day have to roll exhaustion test as if you were standing? Or de Mount check exhaustion ?

 

[Beleriphon]

Our group we have some questions we would like to ask for help from all of you please:


1. A character riding a camel or horse in a desert (difficult terrain) walks with half drive or be mounted walks with the normal movement? Are there any animals that ignore difficult terrain?

I don't think there are, short of flying mounts. That said, I'm not sure that desert is necessarily difficult terrain. Parts certain could be, but there's no reason to assume all of it would be.

2- A character can move mounted Slow (Travel pace PHB 182) and use Stealth?

Don't see why not. Any creature moving at the slow pace can use stealth.

3- A character forcing the march (forced march PHB 181) MOUNTED for example 12 hours a day have to roll exhaustion test as if you were standing? Or de Mount check exhaustion ?

The mount should be making the exhaustion checks, not the characters.

 

[The Grassy Gnoll]

I think for point 1 you can use your common sense - horse in deep sandy desert, difficult terrain, but camel not.
Re point 3, I'd check mount and rider. Forced March on a horse is essentially a canter or a gallop and it's knackering for the rider, too.

 

[aramis erak]

I think for point 1 you can use your common sense - horse in deep sandy desert, difficult terrain, but camel not.

I concur.

Re point 3, I'd check mount and rider. Forced March on a horse is essentially a canter or a gallop and it's knackering for the rider, too.

Which said gaits can be painfully jarring if you're seated, so the rider usually stands in the stirrups, and that's tiring.

But, really, the high speed gaits aren't sustainable long term (at least not laden)... at best, it's a sustained trot, pace, tölt, or rack. the only way the Pony Express maintained a galloping pace was changing horses every few miles.

Then again, even a sustained trot will leave one sore - either from being paddled with the saddle, or from standing in the stirrups.