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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 1397302" data-attributes="member: 3929">Brother Shatterstone of these boards was looking for a way to lighten the load of armors in the Rules Forum. My mind drifted to Baron Vladamir Harkonnen; he was a big fat fellow and wore anti-grav thingies so he could move his bulk. I figured that in a world with magic, wouldn't some clever mage figure out how to make money off of a magic item use of Levitate? After all, Boba Fett had something like that when he was parking Han "Coffee table" Solo in the storage of Slave I, and who doesn't want to be cool like Boba? So, this clever for-profit mage will introduce to the general population:Felix's Gravatational InhibitorThe observation has been made that weak small people are not as adept at moving masonry stones around as strong big people; thus the dearth of halfling dockworkers. Considerable effort has been made by the clever mages at Felix Laboratories to enable small people to level the playing field in an industry dominated by sizeist employers. Felix's Gravatational Inhibitor is a simple device that may be attached to any container to lighten the load.It amplifies the centrifugal force put on the load by the spinning of the planet until it exactly equals the gravatational force pulling downward. At this point, the container is in a state of inertia whereupon any force placed upon the item would cause it to move in that direction. No longer will corded muscles be a requirement for off-shore loading. No longer with the sizeist establishment be able to discriminate against the more economically statured races. Felix Laboratoies will provide you with the means to level the playing field in the transportation industry, for the low, low price of 5,000 gp. ------Right. Now I've a few questions for you.1. How would you price this item, and what would it's required spells be? Feather Fall? Levitate? Anti-gravity field? What would the Caster Level be? And what would the price be before the monopolistic profit seeking meisers at Felix Laboratories raised it to squeeze the wealth out of society? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />2. Ok, so the initial product was marketed towards the transportation of goods. It is easy to see that this would have applications in every aspect of life. What would happen next? Flying cars? Floating houses? Artillery platforms at altitude?3. How could this thing be reigned in so that it isn't so powerful or out of balance?4. Whaddya think?</blockquote>

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