Interesting Featherfall revision...

[Plane Sailing]

Only just noticed this weekend that featherfall has been revised in 3.5...

Now it can affect 1 medium sized (or less) creature per caster level - you can save the whole party now!

 

[Saeviomagy]

Only just noticed this weekend that featherfall has been revised in 3.5...

Now it can affect 1 medium sized (or less) creature per caster level - you can save the whole party now!

In 3.0 it was everything within 10 feet. So once again the entire party...

 

[Len]

If they didn't all start falling at almost exactly the same moment, then after a couple of seconds they won't be within 20 feet of each other. d = (at^2)/2, as they say.

 

[Saeviomagy]

If they didn't all start falling at almost exactly the same moment, then after a couple of seconds they won't be within 20 feet of each other. d = (at^2)/2, as they say.

Unless you're in D&D world, in which case everyone falls at a flat rate.

 

[James McMurray]

Unless you're in D&D world, in which case everyone falls at a flat rate.

What he said. There's obviously odd things going on with inertia and acceleration in D&D, since you an go from a x5 run to a full stop, jump off a 5000ft cliff, land on your feet, and immediately go back to a x5 run, all without breaking a sweat (assuming you have 120 hit points of course).

Mind you, I'm not saying its a bad thing, its just the way the D&D universe works.

 

[Len]

I actually prefer the falling rules in the Looney Tunes universe.

 

[Darklone]

Darn, I need a 5000ft cliff.

 

[diaglo]

i always pictured feather fall. as a

feather fall. floating down.

now you plummet at 60 ft / round. and don't take any damage when you hit.

 

[Christian]

60 ft./round = 10 ft./second. g~30 ft./sec/sec, so this is the speed you would (irl) achieve after 1/3 a second of falling. d=1/2 a t^2, so you'll fall 15/9 ft in this time.

=> You land more softly than jumping down from a 2' stepstool. 'Plummet' is probably a bit of an exaggeration, don't you think?

 

[Quidam]

safefall in AU

=> You land more softly than jumping down from a 2' stepstool. 'Plummet' is probably a bit of an exaggeration, don't you think?

I like the spell equivalent in AU, Safefall. Your fall speed doesn't change, you just land safely. I like the image of plummeting to the ground from a great height, landing in a crouch, then bounding off.