Questions tagged [flight]
For questions about flight, generally referring to the ability to move in the third dimension (height) freely.
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Would the benefits of an aarakocra ranger's Natural Explorer feature apply when they are flying over their favoured terrain?
In a group I currently run, there is an Aarakocra ranger that likes to fly a lot. It's been fun overcoming some of the challenges this can bring to the table, but I have something coming up that I'm ...
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While flying, can I be in melee with the wolf rider, but not with the wolf mount?
My medium-sized character has a flying speed. I would like to attack a Halfling Beast Master with my shortsword. My reach is 5 feet, because I’m not a bugbear or have other crazy features that would ...
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Can you break your fall by flying?
If a character in Pathfinder falls could they break their fall by flying, or would they fall to their potential death?
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Are there any flying creatures with truesight?
Are there any flying creatures in the official rulebooks that have truesight?
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What happens when a Storm sorcerer uses Tempestuous Magic to fly 10 feet straight up?
Storm sorcerers have the Tempestuous Magic feature (XGtE, p. 52) at 1st level:
Starting at 1st level, you can use a bonus action on your turn to cause whirling gusts of elemental air to briefly ...
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How do you determine the area of effect of a flying dragon’s breath weapon? [closed]
When a dragon is flying over its target, how do you determine the area of effect on the ground? If it is breathing straight down, a 60' cone could create a 60' diameter circle, but that's not very ...
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Can I use Mage Hand to fly by Polymorphing myself and picking myself up with the hand?
Could I first cast Mage Hand, then Polymorph into a Tiny creature less than 10 pounds then use the Mage Hand to pick myself up and fly at 30 Ft per turn?
Polymorph says:
The new form can be any ...
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What happens to falling momentum (velocity) when a storm sorcerer uses Tempestuous Magic to fly?
Say a D&D 5e storm sorcerer with the Tempestuous Magic 1st-level feature (XGtE, p. 52) is falling from a height of 300 ft. They ready a spell to be cast just before they reach the ground, such ...
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If you cast Emergency Force Sphere while flying, is it a sphere or a hemisphere?
My wizard is flying 50' in the air via Overland Flight. He casts Emergency Force Sphere.
Is he surrounded by a full sphere or only a hemisphere?
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What are the rules for a hovering creature in combat?
I'm new to GM'ing and I ran into an (Pathfinder) issue that needs clarification.
My group faced a flying demon and I thought it could easily hover and fight.
Some of my experienced players pointed ...
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What happens to a flying creature when it's blinded?
If a creature is flying (magically or otherwise) and is suddenly subject to the 'blinded' condidtion - such as from power word blind - what happens?
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Can I Misty Step into Midair?
If I had a flying speed due to being Aarakocra or having fly cast on me, would I be able to use misty step to teleport to midair rather than staying on the ground?
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How can I make flying arbalester constructs with my artificer?
I am playing level 2 artificer and looking to create some Arbalester constructs. I am looking for a way to give them the ability to fly, and I'd like to be able to give them flying by level 4 at the ...
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What happens to a flying creature if levitated?
The levitate spell description states:
One creature or object you can see rises vertically, up to 20 feet, and remains suspended for the duration. The spell can levitate up to 500 pounds. An ...
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Would a Tenser's Floating Disk vertically follow its caster?
The Tenser's floating disk spell allows its caster to be followed around by a pretty useful force disk:
This spell creates a circular, horizontal plane of force, 3 feet in diameter and 1 inch thick,...
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Fall as a free action and then use fly skill to end falling as free movement
I had a character flying at 100 feet. I knocked an enemy to the ground. Their now farther away than a charge action could get me.
Is it possible to start falling as a free action, and then resume ...
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Overland Flight underwater?
Can you use a fly speed underwater? How does the spell Overland Flight interact with underwater movement?
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How much can an intelligent item with the fly ability carry?
One of the special abilities you can give an intelligent item is the ability to fly:
Item can fly, as per the spell, at a speed of 30 feet
I've always assumed that intelligent items have no ...
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Can you fly over a Medium enemy creature in a 10ft tall corridor?
Let’s say you, a Medium character, are in a 5ft wide, 10ft tall corridor, and that a Medium enemy creature stands in your way. You wish to go behind the enemy creature using your fly speed (either ...
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How long can creatures fly when being used as mounts?
So I'm in a D&D 5e campaign and I'm curious about this because there's some debate in my current campaign about travel mounts, particularly Griffon vs Magic Carpet. A person in our group thinks ...
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How much room does an Aarakocra need to fly/take-off?
How much room does an Aarakocra need to fly/take-off?
I've tried to list the factors I could think of below:
Inability to hover if speed reaches zero
Wingspan of 20ft
Medium sized creature.
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If an Eidolon has the Flight evolution, would the Boots of Striding and Springing increase its fly speed?
A summoner's eidolon can gain the Flight evolution, which says the following:
An eidolon grows large wings, like those of a bat, bird, insect, or dragon, gaining the ability to fly. The eidolon ...
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How much can a raven carry during flight?
I'm in a campaign where our party are spying on and trying to retrieve relics from Thay. I have a raven familiar and I was planning to use it for sending reports back to Waterdeep. (We are only level ...
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Do aarakocra have rules about gliding?
Are there established rules about gliding?
How far can I glide?
What is my Speed while gliding?
How much altitude do I lose per second while gliding?
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Does not having flight nerf a warlock's familiar?
Core Question:
Is restricting a warlock's familiar to not be able to fly (or turn into any animal capable of flight) too much of a nerf to its functionality?
Background:
I'm about to DM a new ...
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Trap that tests flight speed/skill
How can I design a series of traps that test a character's ability to fly quickly through their area?
The group I am GMing for will soon be entering the (abandoned) headquarters of a former faction ...
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Exploring with a permanent flyer
This question asks about how can a DM create suitable challenges for players with Aarakocra, who can fly at will. The question refers to challenges like pits and towers, which the Aarakocra can simply ...
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How can I, as a DM, keep an Aarakocra player in check?
Aarakocra in 5e have a flying speed of 50 feet. But there doesn't seem to have a whole lot of other specifications on flight.
How can I give characters challenges when many of them are avoided ...
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Can an Aasimar use a Lance one-handed while flying?
As the title says... Can an Aasimar use a lance one-handed while flying?
Lance: You have disadvantage when you use a lance to attack a target
within 5 feet of you. Also, a lance requires two ...
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How do I make sense of levitating while prone?
I was wondering recently, when I looked at this question, what exactly happens to you if you're prone and levitating.
How would levitate behave with prone creatures? If I were to cast levitate on a ...
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How can a pugilist deal with flying enemies?
I started playing D&D a couple of months ago and I'm getting used to my pugilist character in my GM's homebrew campaign.
But I always have a problem when we face flying opponents, and I know for ...
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Does a monk's Unarmored Movement speed increase apply to the fly speed gained from a Fly spell?
A monk's Unarmored Movement class feature increases the monks speed by 10 feet at level 2, and further at higher levels. According to this Sage Advice, this stacks with an Aarakocra monk's fly speed, ...
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Using ranged weapons along with Air Genasi levitate ability
Can an Air Genasi shoot a bow while using their racial levitate? How do the components of this spell work? A bow is a two handed weapon. I'm having a hard time figuring out my options for this Air ...
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If a power references your Speed, can it be your Flight Speed?
My player has a 4e Pixie Monk and his Daily power says he can shift his speed (which on his sheet says Speed 4 Flight 8) and I'm not sure if the card is specific to Speed or can he use his Flight ...
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Can someone flying with winged boots/boots of flying carry someone?
Can a person with winged boots carry another medium size creature, and if so, would it require any checks?
I found this info in the DMG, page 214:
Winged Boots
Wondrous item, uncommon (...
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When a creature with non-magical flying speed is knocked prone and falls, how do I determine the falling damage?
Xanathar's Guide to Everything provides new (optional) rules regarding Falling
Assuming I want "a flying creature to have a better chance of surviving a fall than a non-flying creature does" how does ...
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Does Eidolon flight work as the fly spell for running?
I am playing a unchained summoner and took the Inevitable Eidolon sub-type. At 4th level it becomes immune to fatigue and exhaustion. I have selected the fly evolution which grants the Eidolon a fly ...
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What happens when you fail a hover fly check?
The fly skill is clear about when a check is needed, and you cannot perform the intended action if failing the check. Further more, it states if you fail by 5 or more, you pummel to the floor.
Try ...
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Can my familiar fly with a small person?
The rulebook states that carrying capacity is the strength score times 15 (lbs). Find familiar allows me to get a hawk, which has a strength score of 5. This results in a carrying capacity of 75 lbs. ...
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Can you magically fly while Paralyzed?
While under the fly spell, if you are paralyzed for whatever reason, are you still able to fly around?
Paralyzed
A paralyzed character is frozen in place and unable to move or act. A paralyzed ...
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What spaces does a flyer threaten?
Would a small size character hovering above a foe spell caster threaten the square he is in and all squares he could reach with a 5 ft. Step?
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Would Gust of Wind (and other spells) cause flying creature to stall?
Flying creatures need a minimum forward speed to be able to fly.
Minimum Forward Speed: If a flying creature fails to maintain its minimum forward speed, it must land at the end of its movement.
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Does Hover while flying require any action?
In today's game it came up that combat start so I cast shield and flew towards combat. In the next round I wanted to cast enlarge person which is 1 round, however I was already flying. Clearly I wasn'...
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Does fighting from higher ground grant combat advantage?
Proving a negative is hard. I have been reading several pages from the Rules Compendium, but information about combat advantage is very scattered.
I'm specifically interested in flying, but if it's a ...
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Would a winged Aasimar fall if it cannot flap its wings?
I have a player who has an Aasimar character. My player argues that the book does not state the Aasimar has to flap its wings, and instead can hover because the wings don't use concentration. This ...
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Do I have to land at the end of my turn?
I was told by my AL DM that when you fly at the end of your turn you must return to the ground or at the end of the round take falling damage.
I can't find this rule set anywhere. All I can find is:
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How does wind affect flying speed of creatures?
Lately my players have been flying quite a lot, so it concerned me if there are more specified rules for flying. Could it be possible to use friendly winds to gain some sort of speed boost? Can wind ...
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Do non-flying creatures fall instantly if moved into the air against their will? [duplicate]
Situation A sorcerer in my party wants to use the cantrip "Lightning Lure" to pull a creature that isn't capable of flying into the sky while concentrating on the "Fly" spell. He uses his Metamagic "...
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Is level five permanent flight overpowered?
So a player has asked whether or not I would allow him to buy permanency flight for his character at level 5. He agreed to put a limitation on it similar to illusory flight, but it would still be a 60 ...
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Does the racial fly skill bonus stack with fly spell bonus?
What happens when you cast fly on a creature that already possess a natural means of flight? Take a creature that has perfect flight, which gives it a +8 racial bonus on fly checks, then cast fly at ...
