Riding (Agility)

Sooner or later, characters in a fantasy campaign are going to want to use mounts. These are most likely horses, but the same skill is used for riding anything from donkeys to giant insects. In most settings, it can be assumed that everyone knows the basics of riding a saddled horse, and a skill check is only required for pursuits, races, or riding in dangerous conditions.
Your character should use this skill if…
• Your character flees from pursuers who are also mounted, or fast enough to potentially catch up.
• Your character tries to joust at a tournament.
• Your character competes in a friendly (or not so friendly) race.
• Your character tries to catch up to enemies with a significant head start.
• Your character’s mount panics during a storm, and your character needs to get the creature under control.
Your character should not use this skill if…
• Your character travels without any immediate danger.
• Your character makes an attack from horseback. The additional difficulty brought about by attacking from a horse should be factored into the combat check’s difficulty, generally in the form of one or more black dice.
• Your character tries to tame a wild animal. In this case, your character uses the Survival skill.