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Polkageist · 11-09-2021, 08:32 AM

While riding the horse may not be 'restful' as it were, simple overland traveling without meaningful encounters certainly can include rest periods that satisfy recovery of FP/EP.

With Recover Energy the Wizard needs 15 minutes in that hour to recover enough FP to maintain the mount. Those can come in 5 minute chunks, so stopping to rest for five minutes three times in an hour is pretty reasonable. Everyone's going to need these breaks, not just the wizard, to get a snack, drink some water, stretch fatigued limbs, see men about horses, that sort of thing.

Oh yeah, and if Create Mount is known at skill 15 or greater then the energy discount reduces the maintenance cost to 2 which is now only 10 minutes in an hour or two five-minute breaks.

So unless the Wizard is going all-out hell bent for leather riding non-stop (ironically something that the created mount can do being an entity of magic and not a real animal) then using Create Mount indefinitely for overland travel is very feasible. Given they have reasonable skill levels in Recover Energy and Create Mount, assume that during any given random encounter they'll start down the FP used to maintain the spell (or roll a 1dX, where X is the FP to maintain and pay accordingly).

11-09-2021, 08:32 AM	#5
Polkageist Join Date: Sep 2007	Re: How would you make this spell? D&D edition While riding the horse may not be 'restful' as it were, simple overland traveling without meaningful encounters certainly can include rest periods that satisfy recovery of FP/EP. With Recover Energy the Wizard needs 15 minutes in that hour to recover enough FP to maintain the mount. Those can come in 5 minute chunks, so stopping to rest for five minutes three times in an hour is pretty reasonable. Everyone's going to need these breaks, not just the wizard, to get a snack, drink some water, stretch fatigued limbs, see men about horses, that sort of thing. Oh yeah, and if Create Mount is known at skill 15 or greater then the energy discount reduces the maintenance cost to 2 which is now only 10 minutes in an hour or two five-minute breaks. So unless the Wizard is going all-out hell bent for leather riding non-stop (ironically something that the created mount can do being an entity of magic and not a real animal) then using Create Mount indefinitely for overland travel is very feasible. Given they have reasonable skill levels in Recover Energy and Create Mount, assume that during any given random encounter they'll start down the FP used to maintain the spell (or roll a 1dX, where X is the FP to maintain and pay accordingly).