Running while flying

[RSKennan]

Watching Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the background while I do some web browsing, I came up with an idea:

I'm not sure what will be in 4e, but wouldn't it be cool if there was a feat that allowed you to increase your fly speed by hopping along rooftops? When 4e comes out, if there's nothing like this, I'll write up the feat.

Anyone care to try it for 3.x? I'm not thinking in 3.5 terms any more.

 

[Treebore]

I allow the various "speed increments" while flying anyways. I look at the flying spell speed to be your "base speed", and it gets multiplied just like your base walking speed does. I don't know if I do it by the rules, or against it.

As for the "tree/roof running", I have also tried to consider how to integrate that. I never really came up with a satisfactory way to do it other than a second level spell that I called "Light as a Feather". I just never felt feats could, or should, cover such a thing.

 

[Aus_Snow]

I've seen it more as 'flying' while running. More Monk territory, with some tweaks, rather than Wizard territory, with or without some tweaks.

Sorry if that isn't very helpful, but I got stuck at the definition part.

But anyway, for the sake of the thread, I would probably (if it was running while flying, when skipping over rooftops and stuff) just say 'that's what what you're doing' and that would be that. OK, so you can fly. Cool. Describe it how you want to.

 

[Tonguez]

Hyper Leap
Psionics Feat
Prereq: Up The Walls
By making a Jump Check DC 15 you can use your move action to leap up to your full movement rate provided you start and end on a flat surface, you do not need a run up and always land on your feet.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Hyper Leap
Psionics Feat
Prereq: Up The Walls
By making a Jump Check DC 15 you can use your move action to leap up to your full movement rate provided you start and end on a flat surface, you do not need a run up and always land on your feet.

Neat. I was just thinking about Up The Walls when I saw this thread again. Of course, psionic feats would be just about perfect. For some reason, I often think of Monks and psionics / psychic powers as just going together. Perhaps in part because my homebrew Monk class has some of that.