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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 1150359" data-attributes="member: 11">Well, actaully thinking it over I think AGGEMAM's reply leads me to my own conclusion because of his comments on line of effect.Basically, the target of the levitation spell was invisible and we were using my line of sight / range ruling - so the aster could not manipulate the height - however, the target was climbing a steep and slippery wall and wanted to know if he slipped and fell (i.e. failed his check by 5 or more) if he would fall or if he would simply just float there allowing him to reach out and grab the wall again and continue to climb.  I ruled with the latter - but now that I think about it - levitation does not make you weightless it only allows the caster to raise you up - so I think the target would fall since he hadn't actually been levitated at all - and unless the caster had a readied action to raise the target more if he fell I would rule he would not be able to stop the fall unless it was a really long fall (i.e. took longer than 6 seconds - unlikely).So that begs the question. . .  if the target is levitated let's say 40 feet and then climbs another 40 feet (80 feet total)and falls - would he stop falling at the 40 foot mark, or go all the way down?</blockquote>