erian_7 said:
(A continuous/use activated device that takes up no body slot, increases movement by 10-20, and gives the benefit of Ride without a creature to worry with and using skills useful in other situations would cost at least in the 5000 gp range using the DMG creation guidelines (similar to the 5,500 gp Boots of Striding and Springing--it just loses the +5 Jump bonus in favor of the other benefits). Of course, if the DM rules it okay, I'm up for creating it! Also, the weight limit seems very low--a small halfling wearing just studded leather would exceed the limit. Been reading up on the magic item creation guidelines to play a successful artificer...)
It's meant more to be like a special item, not a magic item. If I could put wheels on it, I would have, and it'd be freakin' mundane item I could make myself. It's not supposed to be a handy-dandy magic item really.
And yeah, it's like a mount, that's the idea, not a full-blown magic item. It costs twice what a riding dog would base and it's pretty easy to snap in half, that and a riding dog has a base move of let's see, 40 ft., can tear the throat out of a full grown human commoner pretty easily, has some intelligence, they make great guard dogs too +5 spot and listen.
I can prop a door open with the flattened stick of a skateboard. It requires the use of other skills to even use, sort of like a mount, and mounts are pretty cheap too. I still power it, thus I get tired still, not as quickly but still.
Benefits (increased movement, can use some mount related things by you know spending feats, can get a masterwork version oooo, can get some modifications another oooo), drawbacks (still a hunk of motionless nonsentient wood if i'm not using it, pretty easy to snap in half if you don't pay a good deal for it, pretty dang expensive for something that is mount-like).
I'd rather make it entirely myself (which I almost can) except for the little touch of magic to keep it floating.
About the weight cap, forgot how messed up weights are, should probably be 75lb-100lb. Although a halfling at most weighs 38 lbs., it's ridiculous how studded leather on a halfling can weigh 1/3rd what the halfling weighs or so on average.
GRAR~!