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Why is there a limit to falling damage?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8030770" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>In natural flight, that means it's stalled.</p><p></p><p>A stalled flier falls - to begin with. It can, however, then attempt to control its fall into a dive and then pull out of said dive. Even powered aircraft can do this and they're a whole lot less maneuverable than anything with natural flight; some birds can flip a stall into level flight without falling more than a few feet, and even something as big and lumbering as a Roc or Dragon would have a good chance to recover from a stall unless it happens at very low altitude.</p><p></p><p>The RAW conveniently ignore this bit and strongly imply that a fall caused by speed=0 will continue to the ground regardless of starting altitude.</p><p></p><p>The 'sent spinning' idea is a good one for prone-in-flight but again can be recovered from - I guess this would equate to a prone-on-the-ground person standing back up - and might not cause all that much loss of altitude, depending on the creature. The difference would be that a flier sent spinning is extremely unlikely to be within range of any opportunity attacks while it "stands up".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8030770, member: 29398"] In natural flight, that means it's stalled. A stalled flier falls - to begin with. It can, however, then attempt to control its fall into a dive and then pull out of said dive. Even powered aircraft can do this and they're a whole lot less maneuverable than anything with natural flight; some birds can flip a stall into level flight without falling more than a few feet, and even something as big and lumbering as a Roc or Dragon would have a good chance to recover from a stall unless it happens at very low altitude. The RAW conveniently ignore this bit and strongly imply that a fall caused by speed=0 will continue to the ground regardless of starting altitude. The 'sent spinning' idea is a good one for prone-in-flight but again can be recovered from - I guess this would equate to a prone-on-the-ground person standing back up - and might not cause all that much loss of altitude, depending on the creature. The difference would be that a flier sent spinning is extremely unlikely to be within range of any opportunity attacks while it "stands up". [/QUOTE]
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