Ring of Feather Falling


Rules Questions

Scarab Sages

Character is falling 100 ft, but wearing a ring of feather falling.

1. Character falls 5 ft., ring activates, character falls for 60 ft., ring turns off, character takes 35 (40 ft.) of falling damage?

2. Character falls 5 ft., ring activates, character falls for 60 ft., ring turns off, character falls 5 ft., ring activates, character lands safely?

3. Character falls 5 ft., ring activates, character falls 95 ft. and lands safely?

4. Character falls 5 ft., ring activates, character falls 60 ft. End of round. Next round, character falls 5 ft., ring activates, character lands.

Which one is the correct scenario. I'm guessing #4 is way off, and its either 1 or 2. I'm hoping 2, maybe 3, or my pathfinder society character just wasted 2,200 gp.

Thanks


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William Sinclair wrote:

Character is falling 100 ft, but wearing a ring of feather falling.

1. Character falls 5 ft., ring activates, character falls for 60 ft., ring turns off, character takes 35 (40 ft.) of falling damage?

2. Character falls 5 ft., ring activates, character falls for 60 ft., ring turns off, character falls 5 ft., ring activates, character lands safely?

3. Character falls 5 ft., ring activates, character falls 95 ft. and lands safely?

4. Character falls 5 ft., ring activates, character falls 60 ft. End of round. Next round, character falls 5 ft., ring activates, character lands.

Which one is the correct scenario. I'm guessing #4 is way off, and its either 1 or 2. I'm hoping 2, maybe 3, or my pathfinder society character just wasted 2,200 gp.

Thanks

#3. The character floats safely the entire way.

The Exchange

I've always assumed that it activates any time that you descend 5 ft very quickly, so we've always played it as #2. Since it's a permanent item that has no limit as to how many times it can be activated, I would definitely go with 2.


The spell description says that duration is: "until landing or 1 round/level". The ring is created with a Caster Level of 1.

I suppose the end result would be the same, but either #2 or #3.

Where are you getting the 60 ft limit, btw?

Shadow Lodge

Search works, use it and you find this fairly quickly.

For the particularly lazy

Spoiler:
James Jacobs wrote:

Yeah... the ring of feather falling works all the time forever. It will protect you from a fall of any distance, since it doesn't say that "this effect works only once per day" or "this effect only protects you from a fall of a certain amount of distance."

Most magic items work this way. They're better, as a general rule, than the spell or spells used to create them as a result, which is the whole point of the magic item. It's something that goes beyond the basic use of the spell itself.

Scarab Sages

0gre wrote:

Search works, use it and you find this fairly quickly.

For the particularly lazy
** spoiler omitted **

cool, thanks! I'm used to the search engine from another certain roleplaying website which sucks and is completely useless. Guess you could say I'm prejudice toward searh engines. And you even showed me an "official" answer! You rock, Ogre!


0gre wrote:

Search works, use it and you find this fairly quickly.

For the particularly lazy
** spoiler omitted **

No need to be a little jerky. Just simply missed the specific number in the spell description.

Thanks though.

-Windquake

Shadow Lodge

#1 I was replying to the top poster.
#2 I gave links and actually took the time to quote a developer's thoughts on the idea.
#3 Give a man a fish...


0gre wrote:

#1 I was replying to the top poster.

#2 I gave links and actually took the time to quote a developer's thoughts on the idea.
#3 Give a man a fish...

NP man. Message boards and email...hard to read mood.

Lovin the fish!

Shadow Lodge

Windquake wrote:
0gre wrote:

#1 I was replying to the top poster.

#2 I gave links and actually took the time to quote a developer's thoughts on the idea.
#3 Give a man a fish...

NP man. Message boards and email...hard to read mood.

Lovin the fish!

I should know better than use words like lazy, wasn't intending to belittle folks. :D

Scarab Sages

Just because...

Thread necromancy!

/casts detect poster

*shudder*

/blinds self

:p seriously though, april 9th to may 31st is a pretty good haul ;)

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