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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 9304496" data-attributes="member: 5143"><p>To me the issue is that standard scenarios that I’d expect to happen in a fantasy story don’t work if a PC has flight. Heck, a bunch of published adventures don’t work if a PC has flight. </p><p></p><p>-The players need to go through a dark forest filled with dangerous wolves.</p><p>-The players need to climb a mountain in order to find an item at the top. It’ll take 2 days to get to the top because going straight up isn’t an option. Over those days they’ll be attacked by polar bears and yeti since they’ll have to pass by their lairs. </p><p>-The players need to find their way down a trap filled hallway, where touching the ground is dangerous. </p><p>-The players come to a chasm where the bridge is out and are forced to take a detour around forcing them to spend the night in a nearby haunted town. </p><p>-The players need to transport an unconscious guy with an anti magic aura on him to the one place that will be able to heal him but there are demons (without flight) waiting to ambush them on the road there. </p><p></p><p>These are just a few of the scenarios that have actually come up during games that would have been ruined by one person having at will flight. There are countless more. Does each of these have a “solution”? Sure. But do most of those solutions either feel like you are purposely taking away a player’s ability or feel very contrived and artificial and possibly a little unfair? You bet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 9304496, member: 5143"] To me the issue is that standard scenarios that I’d expect to happen in a fantasy story don’t work if a PC has flight. Heck, a bunch of published adventures don’t work if a PC has flight. -The players need to go through a dark forest filled with dangerous wolves. -The players need to climb a mountain in order to find an item at the top. It’ll take 2 days to get to the top because going straight up isn’t an option. Over those days they’ll be attacked by polar bears and yeti since they’ll have to pass by their lairs. -The players need to find their way down a trap filled hallway, where touching the ground is dangerous. -The players come to a chasm where the bridge is out and are forced to take a detour around forcing them to spend the night in a nearby haunted town. -The players need to transport an unconscious guy with an anti magic aura on him to the one place that will be able to heal him but there are demons (without flight) waiting to ambush them on the road there. These are just a few of the scenarios that have actually come up during games that would have been ruined by one person having at will flight. There are countless more. Does each of these have a “solution”? Sure. But do most of those solutions either feel like you are purposely taking away a player’s ability or feel very contrived and artificial and possibly a little unfair? You bet. [/QUOTE]
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