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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 427248" data-attributes="member: 5">I suppose I had never really thought about it, and it hasn't ever come up (perhaps oddly), but it struck me as odd that in the latest issue of Dragon Magazine, Mr. Williams says that Unseen Servants fly.____________________________Q.- Can the servant you create with the unseen servant spell fly?  Can it only move along the ground? Does the servant trigger attacks of opportunity?A.- Though an unseen servant does not have a fly speed, the caster can nevertheless direct the servant to go anywhere within the spell's range (including up or down), provided that the servant does not pass through a solid barrier to get there and that the caster has a line of effect to the servant at the beginning of its movement for the turn.  ...the servant's movement does not trigger an attack of opportunity (and the servant is not subject to melee attacks in any case).____________________________I'm not sure how to feel about this.  On the one hand he freely admits that no fly speed is given, therefore suggesting that since it wasn't given the speed that is given should have been assumed to be for regular (ground) movement.  On the other hand, why assume it should be able to fly if it hasn't been given a fly speed?He goes on in his next question and answer to deal with the strength and encumberance of the servant, and a third Q&A to speak to the space a servant may or may not take (and possible cover issues).  Feel free to discuss those in this thread as well, though the flying thing was the one that first got me going... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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