Tenser's Floating Disc

Valens · Post by **Valens** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 11:44 pm

I'd really like to see this spell usable for those long treks into treasure-laden territory.

Perhaps, to steal from the disc, you would have to roll as if stealing from a PC?

Mingus · Post by **Mingus** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:14 am

Wouldn't levitate do the trick. I always wanted to see that spell castable on objects. Not much use for it with fly. Although it would be nice for fly to drop you hard and make use of a levitate spell as in a ring of feather fall. But since fly is not like that, casting levitate on objects(containers) and shove/draging them around with out any effort would make it more usefull.

Cyric · Post by **Cyric** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 12:42 pm

You misunderstand the nature of the spell. It creates a magical disc under the mages direct control. I'm unsure the rolls and weight limitations on it, but it's basically the mages answer for a fighter's inexcusable amount of carryweight

There are several things that conflict with game mechanics, tho =\ Such as "where do the items go when the disc is dismissed or when the spell runs out?". Code currently in place would destroy all items in the disc's inv if it's duration were to run out. But it is certainly something to take under consideration.

Andreas · Post by **Andreas** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:04 pm

Make it a nokill mob similar to some of the training dummies etc. that I've seen where it will drop everything before "disappearing." It would take either the pet or mount slot, whichever was open, follow the caster and accept the caster's orders (in terms of giving stuff to the caster to simulate the caster taking something off the disc).

I think that it'd be a very useful spell for a mage

Rhelian · Post by **Rhelian** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:41 pm

I wouldn't suggest it taking up the spot of a pet or a mount, as it would limit anyone with a horse and/or familiar using the spell, but maybe as a cart, without taking up the cart slot. That way you can take things from it, because the spell summons a floating disc. Other people could to, again because it's just a floating disc

I blieve that in the PHB it can only travel at a certain speed so limiting the wizard to say a jog at most might be good too, or the disc gets left behind.

Sounds like a useful spell if it can be added

Paskry · Post by **Paskry** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 7:53 pm

Perhaps you could have it as a buy item that is made of a material rather than pure magic... Then have a levitation spell attached so it has the floating proporty then do a rename as A Floating Disc.

For the commands I suppose you could make it work like the supplicate avatar commands. Then it will not take up any slot.

Well that's my thoughts.

Paskry
Ranger of Corellon

Edited to remove un-needed colour. Colour should only be used for emphasis.

Andreas · Post by **Andreas** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:52 pm

How would cart code apply to this idea?

Timaeus · Post by **Timaeus** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 9:52 pm

The spell as coded now creates a 'cart' for the caster. It works as a cart in all respects save it has a timer for a duration. Upon expiration all the contents are dropped on the ground.