Tenser's Floating Disk

[RigaMortus2]

So - I don't direct it otherwise. I'm walking north; the disk is maintaining a constant interval five feet south of me.

I turn around and walk two feet south.

Under the rope model, the Disk does not move. I have not 'directed it otherwise', therefore per the spell text it maintains a constant interval of five feet between itself and me.

Under the rope model, it's now three feet away from me. Per the spell text, it maintains an interval of five feet.

How can the rope model be true, if it says three feet, and the spell says five feet?

-Hyp.

Because it is not following you until the point where you start to move more than 5 feet away from it?

 

[ARandomGod]

It's not uberpowerful in the sense of destroying-all-your-enemies-without-a-save is uberpowerful, but it's unbalanced in that it makes many higher level spells completely irrelevant (in certain circumstances). Thing such as: levitate, fly, water walking, and air walk.

Ah. And there you've pinpointed the prerequisite nerf... Do not allow it to go higher in (edit: air) the than a few feet. Which is something else I've never done.


Still, the way the current version of the spell is written (cause that's what I can read), I don't see anything stopping it from working that way, other than sheer willpower. Which, as I said above, I'm a signer, sheer willpower can have a LOT of effects.

 

[Prince Atom]

I've got a player with a device that lets him cast TFD at will. I can't remember how he came to have it, but it's not that big an issue since I'm very lax on encumbrance. And it seems to give him some glee to mime casting it all over the place

I would say he can have as many TFDs active at one time as can fit within range of the spell (some 25' radius) at a ratio of 1 disk to 1 5' square. If it came up.

I favor the rope theory of TFD, by the by. This isn't an autonomous off-road vehicle we're talking about, here.

 

[ARandomGod]

You can't share this spell.

It's an effect spell, not a targeted spell.

Use "Imbue Familiar" to grant your familiar limited spellcasting, and have the familiar cast the spell itself.