barsoomcore
Unattainable Ideal
One thing I realised: Since Take-Off requires a Piloting skill check, and Piloting is a Trained skill, somebody without ranks in Piloting cannot jump on a flying carpet and zoom away. Likewise with the fly spell.
Here's my suggestion: We provide an adjustment to the description for the fly spell:
The subject of a fly spell gains the ability to use the Piloting skill as though they had 8 ranks in the skill.
We also adjust all magic items that provide flying as follows:
This item allows the user to use the Piloting skill as though they had 8 ranks in the skill.
This is consistent with our treatment of flying creatures and makes a flying carpet a pretty nimble little platform. We could provide rules for generating more nimble flying carpets -- enchanting Handling Modifiers.
Thoughts?
Here's my suggestion: We provide an adjustment to the description for the fly spell:
The subject of a fly spell gains the ability to use the Piloting skill as though they had 8 ranks in the skill.
We also adjust all magic items that provide flying as follows:
This item allows the user to use the Piloting skill as though they had 8 ranks in the skill.
This is consistent with our treatment of flying creatures and makes a flying carpet a pretty nimble little platform. We could provide rules for generating more nimble flying carpets -- enchanting Handling Modifiers.
Thoughts?