| Chad Nedzlek |
We recently began playing the "Skull & Shackles" campaign, which necessarily requires a lot of play on moving ships.
Being a spell caster in this campaign is somewhat of a headache, since the rules rarely account for being on board a ship. There are several spells called out in the player's guide and how they work. Alas, "Levitate", a fairly staple spell, is not among them.
My question is, what happens when my character uses levitate aboard a moving ship? Does he move with the ship? Or does he stop dead and suddenly become a living projectile aboard the ship?
| Dolanar |
You would stop dead as the Levitate spell does not allow for Lateral Movement. However, since you are aboard a ship, it can be assumed you have a decent wind & therefor were you able to make a sail from clothing or whatnot you could feasibly sail along with the ship, or you could lift yourself to press against a Mast to propel yourself forward with the ship.
Note: Most of this would become DM Fiat unless you can find rules on sails & how they react to wind & their movement speed based on what wind.