A lot of people who read Iron Heroes bemoan the fact that there isn’t a class devoted to mounted combat. I didn’t really have a problem with this; you could pretty easily make a decent mounted fighter out of the man-at-arms class by picking up the Mounted Combat feats. However, when I started crossing Iron Heroes over with Eberron, I noticed that there really wasn’t a class that did what I wanted as far as the Valenar elves went. What I wanted was basically a harrier, but on a horse; however, all of the harrier’s abilities function while on foot. So, I created a class template. A class template functions a lot like a monster template, except that you apply it to a specific class and it modifies that class, changing its abilities and focus somewhat. What I wound up creating was thematically very similar to the harrier, and with many very similar abilities, with the exception that they all depend on the character riding a horse instead of being on foot. I give you The Outrider.

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