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<blockquote data-quote="Persiflage" data-source="post: 5371786" data-attributes="member: 73597">The actual quote is &quot;A creature with a fly speed can move through the air at the indicated speed if carrying no more than a light load.&quot;This can be read in one of two ways:1)&nbsp; It can only move through the air if carrying no more than a light load: the reference to &quot;the indicated speed&quot; is just because this rule is talking about creatures with a listed fly speed...&nbsp; It's badly written, is all.2)&nbsp; It can still fly provided it can maintain minimum forward speed in a round, but its movement rate is reduced if carrying more than a light load...&nbsp; It's badly written, is all.The evidence in favour of the first reading is:a)&nbsp; The FAQ says sob)&nbsp; The Rules of the Game articles say soc)&nbsp; The Reinforced Wings feat description:e)&nbsp; The final and probably the most compelling argument, preceded by a brief history...&nbsp; The original 3E Monster Manual had the same sentence as the one I quoted initially but with &quot;medium load&quot; instead of &quot;light load&quot;, which was confirmed by the Sage (yeah, I know, but bear with me) to mean that a creature couldn't fly with greater than a medium load (rather than meaning that its speed would be reduced if it did so).&nbsp; In Monster Manual III, this was corrected to &quot;light load&quot;, and Masters of the Wild further clarified the position.&nbsp; The reconstructed passage in Masters of the Wild was eventually pasted exactly into D&amp;D 3.5, theoretically ending the argument...The trouble is where it was put in D&amp;D 3.5: you'll find it in the DMG, page 204, under the section on Unusual Mounts!Doubtless this is where StreamOfTheSky remembers the information about flying mounts from.&nbsp; The emphasis on the carrying capacity of flying mounts is underscored by the accompanying table footnote:(Incidentally, the table also definitively answers the question of whether a flying quadruped's weight capcity is increased in the same way as a ground-bound one: whether or not you think it makes sense, the answer is unequivocally &quot;yes&quot;.)So, the question as to how much a flying mount can carry whilst flying is answered.&nbsp; However, if you want to be really pedantic about it, this passage strictly doesn't cover flying creatures that aren't acting as mounts.&nbsp; Nonetheless, I think the inescapable conclusion is that it was intended that creatures should not be able to fly with more than a light load.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Persiflage, post: 5371786, member: 73597"] The actual quote is "A creature with a fly speed can move through the air at the indicated speed if carrying no more than a light load." This can be read in one of two ways: 1) It can only move through the air if carrying no more than a light load: the reference to "the indicated speed" is just because this rule is talking about creatures with a listed fly speed... It's badly written, is all. 2) It can still fly provided it can maintain minimum forward speed in a round, but its movement rate is reduced if carrying more than a light load... It's badly written, is all. The evidence in favour of the first reading is: a) The FAQ says so b) The Rules of the Game articles say so c) The [B]Reinforced Wings[/B] feat description: e) The final and probably the most compelling argument, preceded by a brief history... The original 3E Monster Manual had the same sentence as the one I quoted initially but with "medium load" instead of "light load", which was confirmed by the Sage (yeah, I know, but bear with me) to mean that a creature couldn't fly with greater than a medium load (rather than meaning that its speed would be reduced if it did so). In Monster Manual III, this was corrected to "light load", and Masters of the Wild further clarified the position. The reconstructed passage in Masters of the Wild was eventually pasted [I]exactly[/I] into D&D 3.5, theoretically ending the argument... The trouble is [I]where[/I] it was put in D&D 3.5: you'll find it in the DMG, page 204, under the section on Unusual Mounts! Doubtless this is where StreamOfTheSky remembers the information about flying mounts from. The emphasis on the carrying capacity of flying mounts is underscored by the accompanying table footnote: (Incidentally, the table [I]also[/I] definitively answers the question of whether a flying quadruped's weight capcity is increased in the same way as a ground-bound one: whether or not you think it makes sense, the answer is unequivocally "yes".) So, the question as to how much a flying [I]mount[/I] can carry whilst flying is answered. However, if you want to be really pedantic about it, this passage strictly doesn't cover flying creatures that aren't acting as mounts. Nonetheless, I think the inescapable conclusion is that it was intended that creatures should not be able to fly with more than a light load. [/QUOTE]

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