If you cast levitate on yourself, can you grab someone else and levitate them up with you? If so, would the person's weight be limited by your maximum load or double your maximum load (you can stagger around with that much weight, but you can't lift it over your head)?
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If you cast levitate on yourself, can you grab someone else and levitate them up with you? If so, would the person's weight be limited by your maximum load or double your maximum load (you can stagger around with that much weight, but you can't lift it over your head)?
Levitate has a special load limit of 100 pounds per caster level. As long as your weight, including everything you're carrying, and the weight of the other person, including everything they are carrying, doesn't exceed 100 pounds times you caster level, you can do it. It's worded a little tricky, though, and appears to imply that only one creature or object can be the target of the spell, therefore the magic only lifts that creature or object. As such, if you wanted to lift someone else with you, you would have to be able to carrying them using your own strength, which would limit their weight to your maximum lifting capacity. I would say that your maximum load is the most you would be able to lift in such a manner, since their weight is dead weight, it isn't dispersed across a load-bearing surface like it would be if you were dragging them across the ground. As most casters don't have outstanding strength, it might be wiser to cast it on the person you're wanting to take with you, and have them carry you instead, if they have the better strength.
If you cast levitate on yourself, can you grab someone else and levitate them up with you? If so, would the person's weight be limited by your maximum load or double your maximum load (you can stagger around with that much weight, but you can't lift it over your head)?Levitate has a special load limit of 100 pounds per caster level. As long as your weight, including everything you're carrying, and the weight of the other person, including everything they are carrying, doesn't exceed 100 pounds times you caster level, you can do it. It's worded a little tricky, though, and appears to imply that only one creature or object can be the target of the spell, therefore the magic only lifts that creature or object. As such, if you wanted to lift someone else with you, you would have to be able to carrying them using your own strength, which would limit their weight to your maximum lifting capacity. I would say that your maximum load is the most you would be able to lift in such a manner, since their weight is dead weight, it isn't dispersed across a load-bearing surface like it would be if you were dragging them across the ground. As most casters don't have outstanding strength, it might be wiser to cast it on the person you're wanting to take with you, and have them carry you instead, if they have the better strength.
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