Talk:Riding

Kicking the steed

What use is this? It just drops me from the saddle and hurts me pretty bad. And despite this, pressing space will take it as 'Yes', when by all logic it should mean 'No', like with pretty much everything else.

If your mount is tame enough (and your character level is high), kicking or whipping it will cause it to move faster, or gallop, for several (20-30) turns. It will also wake up your steed if it has gone to sleep (like from a trap), and will make it recover faster if it has been paralyzed. For the most part it isn't worth it, unless your mount is extremely well-fed, and you have a pressing need to get away from or catch up to a fast monster. Dragons, which are slow and eat a lot of corpses, and usually only ridden by high-level PCs, are probably the best candidate. I don't know if kicking or whipping does damage to the mount (probably does), but dragons, mumak, and the dino-rhinos all have thick enough skin that it won't hurt them anyway. See steed.c#kick_steed if interested in the source code for this. MysterX 11:52, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

How do I get back off?

How do I dismount?