I strongly suggest taking the Tough and Heavy Armor Master Feats. If you're gonna tank, might as well do it with piles of HP and the feature that allows you to shrug small amounts of the most common damage types.

Making a kobold cavalier who doesn’t exactly ride a mount, I’ll make his strength and athletics high enough to reliably climb larger creatures and start attacking them from their backs and use a whip to hit enemies that may try to bypass me and my unwilling mount. He’s a little folkhero don quixote, brave but very poor with rusty equipment, a pick modified for battle, and a large shield that he strapped to his back because he can’t hold it properly. In place of a helm he has a big iron pot

I think there may be one overlooked thing about the Unwavering Mark Feature. The 5ft part only applied to the Disadvantage on attack against anyone other than you. The following part is separate and thusly quite effective for a Mounted Cavalier. For starters, you ride up to the enemy, strike at it and mark it, then have your mount Disengage as you ride away. Being out of that enemies reach, it will likely go attack someone else. Now on your next turn you can ride back over to them, attack them, and Bonus Mark attack them with Advantage and extra damage. Now, only thing I don't alike about this feature, and this goes for Warding Maneuver as well, is that you can only perform them a number of times equal to there respective Ability Mods per Long Rest. This just feels a little to limiting and think they should have added Short Rest as well.

13:54 Great Weapon Fighting doesn't work with the lance, because it doesn't have the two-handed property. Dueling however works when on horseback. The Great Weapon Master feat also doesn't work with the lance.

my cavalier is a dwarf that found a FoWP griffon and a dwarven thrower. his ability to tank from range and deal out the damage is amazing.

Okay, i just thought to look this up cause i'm currently in a Rime campaign playing an orc beastmaster/cavalier. For plot reasons, i use the Tasha's rules but my beast is an Owlbear, with actual stats. I see what you're saying about style cause i go sword and board since i essentially see Mr. Peppers(my owlbear) as an additional tank. I use him to tank one group while i handle the other. Cause i use an axe one of my party said i was pretty much Paul Bunyan🤣

Sidestepping the whole mounted combat issue, I'm working on a centaur cavalier. Backstory is he's a farmboy who dreams of being a knight. We'll start off with a pitchfork [trident] and a shield before working his way up through polearm master with a spear [to keep enemies within 5'.]

my DM just introduced a Ancient griffin to my cavaleir....im here to maybe learn a few tricks to make the best of this privilage!

potential build. goblin riding giant spider. uses whip and shield. dueling fighting style. the plus two helps with damage and to hit. possible multiclass to add to it

I love your channel. Your explanations and content are wonderful. I would like a second Demon Lord, Yeenoghu and explained because of an upcoming homebrew campaign and he’s the BBEG. Once again, I love your content and keep it up.

Concerning the 5ft distance problem with the lance: you could just ride an elephant or something like that, which makes it imposible for most creatures to be directly adjacent to you. They only can attack the mount than and your priority is to boost up your mounts tank ability. With the Mounted Combat feet you still have advantage on all attack rolls. That's not bad. Also with unwavering mark they always have disadvantage against your mount. You literally always have the high ground. Obi Wan would be proud of you.

Mine was originally a college of glamor bard but I wanted to use this subclass so the mafia she’s apart of sent her a dog as like a guard and she decided to ride it instead

I loved my cavalier build for Descent to Avernus! Our DM was amazing for it as well! Here was my build and equipment by the time we went to Avernus! Inventory: Plate Armor, Shield of the Hidden Lord (+2), Bead of Nourishment(for the Horse), a Lance made of Adamantine (very effective later on for spoiler reasons), Longsword of Wounding, Leather Lance Holster/Bucket attached to saddle (Leatherworking Tool Proficiency - allowed swapping to my lance with 2 free actions rather than interacting with the backpack) My mount was a Warhorse with Plate Barding Race: Human Variant - Feat: Mounted Combatant Fighting style: Dueling (helps when I use a lance one handed on horseback, or using the longsword with a shield) Cavalier Martial Archetype Lvl 4 Feat: Shield Master - shield master shove is great for a bonus action while mounted as you can shove them away, or shove them prone. Best is dex saves vs fireballs and such using your reaction to take no damage. Nice when your horse takes no damage from Mounted Combatant. Lvl 6 Feat: Martial Adept - Maneuvering Attack (Great to move your mount after you attack) and Lunging Attack (nice bit of range on a lance) Lvl 8 Feat: Fighting Initiate - Superior Technique (+1 superiority die) - Menacing Attack (Can cause them to be afraid giving them disadvantage vs you, and depending on your placement and your friends, keep them from moving directly towards your friends). Lvl 12 Feat: Piercer (+1 DEX) Crits with piercing damage roll an additional dice. You can reroll the result of your piercing attacks. I had a lot of fun playing the character and running around the hells on horseback! I definitely think you need to run with a Cleric who can revivify your horse (or bring more horses or a druid) but definitely a blast to play!

I have a cavalier built with a 10ft reach weapon. Understand that i should be using a sword and board, but the flavour speaks to me. Might even work mounted, but haven't gotten a ride yet

I had made a halfling cavalier riding a mastiff, the problem i faced while creating it was the fact that aoe spells just annihilate mounts

I played “Don Quixote” a halfling cavalier mounted on Sancho a large mastiff. The shield lance combo coupled with 80’ movement (dash) made Quixote a force to be reckoned with. RPing interactions with his mastiff was a lot of fun too.

I recently hit level 8 and my cavalier's long search for a mount has come to and end. Traditonal mounts are scared of him due to being a lycanthrope. I was given a Wyvern. Wavering Mark and Mounted Combatant Feat makes me quite formidable. I am looking into getting an item comissioned that has a summon steed spell (next dawn recharge) for areas my Wyvern cannot follow me.

Please,, what coud by the best option for a "mounted archer" build ? i like the halfling/gnome/dwarf on a climbing beast in order to get the high ground (insert kennobi's meme here) while dungeon crawling... however is the cavalier my obvious pick ?

I am looking forward to my Cavalier I'm Starting. Niche i know but a friend and I are making a pair of melee combatants where they are the paladin and I am the fighter. We play in Adventure League so we are built around relying on no one but ourselves to count on. I play the bodyguard while she plays the hammer damage dealer who can also heal in an emergency.

I thought about making a centaur cavalier who dual wields lances with the lv 4 feat, but you may have shown me the error here. Thank you

Could you do the drakken please

I'm about to start playing a Halfling cavalier and am looking for to it

People always play cavalier wrong. You move up on horseback to ten ft, lance them, then mark them. They either run and you get your extra attacks, or they try to engage you. If they do engage you, your mount can just disengage and you can keep slapping them with lance attacks until they die. You become a very annoying wasp they have to deal with, or youll simply obliterate them

Yeah no I won't be playing a cavalier anytime soon. I'm not sure but I think that dragon magazine did an article on the cavalier. Maybe that has a better mounted combat system. IDK but good luck with finding something like that Patrick.

I played a cavalier for about three levels and I was significantly underwhelmed and I switched

A knight protects the weak...it's a fantasy trope. So no, not a "very specific instance"

As an older gamer, I lost a bit of interest at the mention of "tanks" and "builds," but I will say that they put some thought into the class aside from "mounted person.. riding a mount." The character has a bonafide "defender" capability. Just.. please stop saying "tank." The MMORPG mindset is what made 4th edition hot garbage. There is no "aggro." Intelligent monsters and NPCs might very well ignore the "tank" to take out his/her allies and then swarm him. Min/maxing attribute scores also means someone will avoid playing certain classes if they can't get the best "build" possible, which is contrary to the roleplaying experience. A cavalier with Wisdom or other save stat as a "dump stat" could be taken out more easily with spells that target those stats. Just food for thought from a RPG dinosaur.