A carpet of flying can hover without making a fly skill check and gives a 5 bonus to other fly checks.
Carpet of flying dnd.
Sage advice is a little convoluted but at the end of the day it seems the broom is a special case or as jc says an oddball and you could dash on it.
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They typically came in three sizes a 5 foot 1 5 meter square a 5 foot 1 5 meter by 10 foot 3 meter rectangle and a 10 foot 3 meter square.
It can carry up to 400 pounds but its flying speed becomes 30 feet while carrying over 200 pounds.
A carpet of flying would have an ac of 11 because it s made of cloth and there s a table for hp.
Typically flying carpets were beautifully and intricately made.
This wooden broom which weighs 3 pounds functions like a mundane broom until you stand astride it and speak its command word.
You can speak the carpet s command word as an action to make the carpet hover and fly.
It moves according to your spoken directions provided that you are within 30 feet of it.
This rug is able to fly through the air as if affected by an overland flight spell of unlimited duration.
Four sizes of carpet of flying exist.
Feats craft wondrous item overland flight.
You can speak the carpet s command word as an action to make the carpet hover and fly.
It has a flying speed of 50 feet.
But the thing that makes the difference is that you use your movement to move the broom not an action.
As the name suggests it is a carpet that has been enchanted to fly.
If a flying creature is knocked prone has its speed reduced to 0 or is otherwise deprived of the ability to move the creature falls unless it has the ability to hover or it is being held aloft by magic such as by the fly spell.
Vox machina later found a new.
Plus if you use the rules for adamantine weapons in xanathar s guide any hit on it would be an auto crit.
A carpet of flying or just flying carpet is a magical item.
Flying creatures enjoy many benefits of mobility but they must also deal with the danger of falling.
The dm chooses the size of a given carpet or determines it randomly.
Not viable as a damage shield.
Now a broom of flying is a different story.
Vox machina s original carpet of flying was taken from lady allura s home the ivory tower after it was assaulted by a demonic entity 1 that original rug eventually lost its enchantment and was rendered a normal non magical rug.
The gm chooses the size of a given carpet or determines it randomly.
It was a rug that could fly through the air as if affected by a permanent overland flight spell.
A carpet of flying can carry up to double its capacity but doing so reduces its speed to 30 feet.
The size carrying capacity and speed of the different carpets of flying are shown on the table below beautifully and intricately made each carpet has its own command word to activate it if the device is within voice range the command word activates it whether the.
It then hovers beneath you and can be ridden in the air.