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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1241336" data-attributes="member: 1465">First of all, the spell doesn't say anything about what you cannot carry with it. And you cannot prevent a Wizard's friend to climb over the floating disk and be transported. This means that you CAN use it as a mean for transportation. Some people don't like it and try to at least prevent the caster to use it as a mean of let's say self-transportation, and to do this they seek aid in the sentence that it follows you 5ft unless otherwise directed, adding the fact that you cannot approach closer (which is completely missing from the description) and ignoring that it still says &quot;otherwise directed&quot; which means that there must be a way for the disc to be at a ditance other than 5ft. I fail to understand the logic that lets you use this description to imply you cannot approach the disc, but some people use it.Compared with Levitate it is not better, besides duration. Levitate lets you go vertically which in general is much harder and precious to get, and doesn't have any volume issues. Anyway, let's go on for the moment.That said, the description of this spell is very appalling. It completely fails to specify how the hell you move this disk, even if it says that &quot;otherwise directed&quot; which lets you believe you can indeed direct it. But it doesn't say what action it is (concentration? move?), nor how far you can move it with such an action; the only hint about a speed is that &quot;it accompanies you at a rate of no more than your normal speed each round&quot; (debate if it means your listed Speed or if it means normal rate=2xSpeed as a double move...).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 1241336, member: 1465"] First of all, the spell doesn't say anything about what you cannot carry with it. And you cannot prevent a Wizard's friend to climb over the floating disk and be transported. This means that you CAN use it as a mean for transportation. Some people don't like it and try to at least prevent the caster to use it as a mean of let's say self-transportation, and to do this they seek aid in the sentence that it follows you 5ft unless otherwise directed, adding the fact that you cannot approach closer (which is completely missing from the description) and ignoring that it still says "otherwise directed" which means that there must be a way for the disc to be at a ditance other than 5ft. I fail to understand the logic that lets you use this description to imply you cannot approach the disc, but some people use it. Compared with Levitate it is not better, besides duration. Levitate lets you go vertically which in general is much harder and precious to get, and doesn't have any volume issues. Anyway, let's go on for the moment. That said, the description of this spell is very appalling. It completely fails to specify how the hell you move this disk, even if it says that "otherwise directed" which lets you believe you can indeed direct it. But it doesn't say what action it is (concentration? move?), nor how far you can move it with such an action; the only hint about a speed is that "it accompanies you at a rate of no more than your normal speed each round" (debate if it means your listed Speed or if it means normal rate=2xSpeed as a double move...). [/QUOTE]

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