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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Luminita" data-source="post: 1931297" data-attributes="member: 25200">Hello, first post!Ok. Got a bit of a question here concerning avariel in the Races of Faerun manual. It states that they can carry a medium load while flying, yet I can't find a single instance of another winged race or monster that can carry more than a light load and be able to get off the ground, much less fly. Why is this? A dragon can't even carry more than a light load and get off the ground and their strength is far higher than any avariel.I'd considered that it was because they have hollow bones and thus less body weight to take aloft, but... not even creatures like giant eagles, very much birds with hollow bones, can do the same that I can see.This load bearing ability gives the avariel a fairly powerful advantage over other flying races. I'm hoping that is a typo in the RoF manual. I'd likely not even have noticed, but we've a person that has this.. ermmm.. odd insistance on playing NOTHING but winged creatures and avariel more than others and they carry about a high medium weight virtual armory (ie no bags of holding. Just a pack with all this stuff in it and several weapons hanging all over her body.) I'm arguing that there's no way that an avariel should be able to maintain its top manueverabilty and speed with that much stuff on her person and as DM, I've curtailed her being able to carry about another PC in her arms AND all her gear without adverse effects on flight. This of course is a sore spot between us because of course.. the RoF manuals sez they can carry a Med load. I just don't agree with it myself. I think it's pushing the boundries of physics to allow them to do so unerringly.The Fly spell is magical, requiring no muscle effort on the part of the spell subject, yet a med load cuts the flight speed down to 40 from 60 ft. (Which is understandable and logical.) If anything should be able to function at full capacity while carrying a med load, it's someone under the Fly spell, not a creature bound to the laws of mundane, non-magical gravity like all other creatures.Can anyone shed any light on it, or perhaps give me some good sound reasons why avariel get this privelege when no other flighted creature seems to?</blockquote>

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