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The Flying Carpet spell costs 1 energy per square foot of the item being transformed into a flying vehicle.
Each square foot allows 25 lb. of lifting capacity.
How big is a saddle? Do you include the coverage of the blanket?
Without the blanket, it's about 7 square feet. The extra coverage of the blanket adds about 3 square feet.
Include the area of the accessories too and you get a total of about 12 square feet.
That will lift 300 lbs.
And you will look like someone riding an invisible flying horse.
For ten minutes.
12 energy to get in the air for the first ten minutes, 6 every ten minutes after that to stay there.
2,400 to make it permanent. G$792,000, or $36,000 in 1896 dollars. Not cheap at all.
How do you get in the air on a broomstick? I don't think there is enough sq ft to lift anybody larger than a small child.
ReplyDeleteThe rules as written do not say. They are definitely assuming a Persian rug for the item and not any of the alternatives listed.
DeleteBut I'd GM fiat rule that you can spend more energy to lift more weight as long as the item in question can take the weight sitting on it.
Can the mage use a storage device to save up energy, kind of like a magical battery or magazine?
ReplyDeleteYou can enchant a few kinds of semi-precious stones, opals preferred, to create what's called a "powerstone".
DeleteA powerstone contains 1pt of energy per enchantment placed on it with a max of 1 per karat of stone weight. A point takes a day to recover once expended (in a normal mana zone).