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Originally Posted by johndallman
Riding isn't like sitting in a car. You need to use your legs fairly continuously to keep from being jolted to a pulp. This is simple enough that you learn it in your first day's familiarisation, but it's why people who have never ridden at all find the first day so bad.
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But it takes years to become a good rider. Use IQ-based Riding skill to determine another rider's level of skill!
If you want to treat riding animals as something other than cars/tanks with hooves, then the GM can be downright sadistic with use of riding skill.
Riding animals can be unpredictable and even the best mount can stumble. Those are the situations where a high level of Riding skill becomes critical if you want to keep your seat. (Rodeo sports like bull-riding or bronco-busting could be modeled as Hard techniques based on the appropriate variation of Riding skill.)
If you want to be brutally realistic, Riding skill might be required to realize just how much you can "push" your mount without injuring or killing it, especially if you're in difficult terrain, extreme weather, and/or in a hurry. Realistically, horses and similar creatures can literally run themselves to death.