I think that Halfling or Gnome Cavaliers would be best - because their mounts can be medium creatures and therefore fit in dungeons.

This is really exciting. I've wanted this class for so long.

I'm very happy to hear about the changes they made to the Cavalier, I liked the aesthetic of a Cavalier, but didn't like that they were tied to Superiority Dice. However, I would like to see the Superiority Dice feature propagated, just to other classes, not other fighter subclasses. The Rogue would probably make a good candidate for it, something of a combat focused "Duelist"

i want to play a high charisma/strength cavalier with really low intelligence and make them like prince charming in shrek 2 :D

Eric was my favorite character in the d&d cartoon he was flawed but you realized deep down he really cared

Eric was my favourite character in the Cartoon. He wasn't meant to be likeable, but he had more character in his writing and voice acting than the others.

Finally, I can re-create Part 7 of Jojo as a paralized Jockey that shoot finger nails at my enemy to kill them.

It’s a shame that superiority dice propagation was argued against, because that would synergise well with Martial Adept and Superior Technique to have a non Battle Master way to get that stuff.

I look forward to building my Mongolian horde character

Eric had character development so I actually remembered him fondly. He reminded me of my players in the games I ran in high school.

I very much enjoy the fact that the cavalier martial archetype is included in 'Xanathar's Guide to Everything' and Jeremy Crawford's point regarding 'Dungeons & Dragons' as high fantasy.

The one thing I've really wanted to know is why the Xanathar book added the Cavalier, but didn't really expand much on the info provided for mounted combat.. I have a Cavalier I've been working on... but most mount animals seem really squishy and make me wonder just how to make them be viable as to not die in the first round of combat to a huge AOE burst against like a dragon or something.

I still love the acrobat... Dunno why that's not a subclass for rogue.

I'd love to see something capitalizing on flying combat ^^ might even try to do some myself

If my dm wills it I will play a mounted goblin on a wolf and basically play sir didymus from labyrinth

I'd love to see a wizard subclass in one of these videos sometime soon! Also loving these, super excited to get my hands on the book so I can play some of these awesome subclasses

In AD&D, Cavalier was available to Warriors in general, including both Fighters and Paladins

Currently a cavalier, and UA centaur. So far so good

The class has been weighed. The class has been measured, but will not have us to be found wanting .?

Oh, so the Knight and Cavalier were not the same subclass in UA? It seems I may be happy with the combination then!

i want the acrobat class though... she was so great in the classic cartoon XD

I know they didn't want it dependant on a mount, but I felt it needed a little more with it to really feel like a mounted warrior

Ideal fine cavalier class, knights od excaliburs legends and history of crusade. but I think that they are high class agent.

Can't wait to make my human Cavalier LeBron James

Love the cavalier, but was wondering where do they get their mount, and how does he keep track of it when he dungeon crawls?

Please do the protector paladin!

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I really want to see this guy do an Agent Smith impression.

Why is the extra attack linked to Str? No love for Dex Cavaliers?

his shirt is an optical illusion

I thought Eric was everybody's favorite character in that show. Everybody was pretty rude to him, but he still was the one always saving and protecting the group.

Those thoughts would have been nice for the Ranger Beastmaster, which is just nothing without his pet

Mounts, Mounts, Mounts!

Would like to know how to get hired to develop content for d&d, Pathfinder, starfinder, etc.

Stegosaurus, here's come Grung

whatever, man! people love Eric!

So they won’t eat it from a longbow?

I can see why they tried to give superiority dice to the Cavalier. Fighters desperately need a resource in their kit, which is why battlemaster and Eldritch knight get so far, even arcane archer to some degree although less so since their resource is a static 2 all the way to level twenty (a huge mistake in my opinion). The cavalier’s resource seems to be her reactions each round, which isn’t a bad idea, though it is a little dependent on actually getting to react to something.

Perhaps a remake of the D&D cartoon this time with character development?

He said the Cavalier is a combo of the UA Cav and Knight. Am I crazy or is there not already a Knight subclass in the SCAG.

Very happy to see during a flip through video that the Cavalier has taken in many if the Knights elements. With a better Sentinel at 10 level and a reaction every turn at 18th, this is truly the ultimate tank.

Arcane Archer

As I study this class, it feels like a super sticky tank. Mix in a little drunken master in here, I think you have a DMs worst nightmare, right there with the cleric. That or hoard breaker ranger.hmmm....

Isn't Oath of the Crown already a paladin oath?

Drow Cavalier with a Riding Lizard!!! Sign me up

So good bye forever Knights? Would like to see a remake of the Knight, maybe with another name for it history ):

Still waiting on that thief acrobat....

Hope they get some way to magic their mount in otherwise it a waste of so much gold to keep buying war horses.

When I heard the name I was hoping it was closer to the Pathfinder's take on the class. Sadly it wasn't, but I guess they can't copy that since it's from a different company.

If this class doesn't get a mount as a class feature, it's still a broken class.

My issue is that mounted combat is very hit and miss. Horses die very easily. The strongest Cavalry class is the Revised Ranger, with Paladin mixed in.

Primeval Guardian please and thank you :)

Rather liked the revised unearthed arcana version. Just needed to make a small enough character to take advantage of the mount skills in dungeons. My kobold riding a dragonborn he is dedicated to protecting (as a dragon shield is charged to do by his superior dragon) is just too much fun.

I really hope the knights ability Hold the Line and his marking ability made it into the class

What they did with the Cavalier and the Knight they should also do with the Artificer class and the Artificer Wizard subclass and turn the Mechanical Servant into a subclass for the (resulting) Artificer.

I would like to build a Cavalier where the PC is an awakened animal who is actually the mount, and the rider is treated like the "mount" mechanically some how.

Goblin Cavalier with some Ranger for a Wolf companion animal. There, I'm now a Cavalier Goblin on the back of a Wolf. Wolf is medium size and so I can take it inside with me for the mount bonuses LOL As long as the tavern owner doesn't throw a fit about my little snuggles. Disregarding the fact that little snuggles is bigger than me.

So I have the book nowadays, and if I'm honest I'd take the level 3rd ability and the 15th level and scrap the rest. The cavalier as a tank is the opposite of what I want. I want to be the storming hussar who just charges into the enemy lines crushing them underfoot then sets back and charges again. I'd have made them have a way to get in and out of combat not tanking.

Haven't looked at the class but man does it make me feel uneasy when he describes that they don't need the mount but it's just a bit of extra. I feel like as a player that could very easily go from feeling like I am playing my class wrong by not having that extra. I also doubt they would overtune something to add extra.

I for one am disappointed at the removal of the Superiority Dice. I just feel that the baseline Fighter should have kept the Martial Damage Dice from D&DNext.

I really hope. that Raven Queen would be in Xanatar, she had so great favor, but so....not interesting mechanics

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Be a small size cavalier and let your mount be your party's barbarian problem solved.

fucking crawford. the mount should be the main thing. will he be better at fighting mounted enemies than others? will he be able of getting his mount to attack, if say... he's riding a dragon? they just made the fucking knight and his 4e shit...

they fucked the cavalier fans... i wanted the 'kits of old'-style mobile hitter, with a lot of features intended to horse back, oly withou the battlemaster-style die. disappointing... seems im the only one tho. i just feel cheated: the cavalier UA won over the knight's UA, but they still released the knight anyway and just gave it the cavalier's name. and i know for sure they will never release a horse-back warrior, lance-wielding, shining-armored, wandering-knight-flavor-fitting subclass for fighter. maybe, just maybe something for the paladin, but and let's be real, they wont! AND i really wanted one for the fighter... xanathar's one doesn't get anything appliable to the horse until level 15(okay, the 7th level feat can be used to save the horse's ass), if it didn't get the "born to the saddle" they could have named it anything else and people would think "woah, they should have named it 'the cavalier' or 'the knight', man, just makes so much more sense then (insert any other subclass name here)". i would take al least two feats to make mounting with it worth, mounted combatant and charger, for sure... i curse jeremy crawford for the reminder of 5e's days...

Ok so let me get this straight: a Cavalier can ride....ANYTHING with four legs or more as a mount? Am I the only one who sees how over powered this is? Then again verity is the spice of life.... I'm going to have to think on this.

Saying they need to make the cavalier do things without his mount is like saying mages need to be able to cast spells in anti magic zones...

Okay it's actually so lame... Honestly you only have 1 class feature that involves a mount with the Cavalier but it's not even that big of a feature! It just help you get on your mount and helps if you fall off!! I was really hoping for at least some techniques that you could use with your mount...

Too bad the class doesn't really perform well