Its pretty much useless until you can fly in some way. One of the most basic spells is of course... Fly. There are a few ways to get wings through class features or being assimar will allow you to get angel wings. Having a movement speed of a particular type(swim/fly) lets you take 10 on all checks too.
The advantage of having bonuses to the skill is you can pull off some of the more complicated flying maneuvers mentioned, becuase they have set DCs it actually isn't that hard unless your taking penalties.
technically cant take ranks of fly until you have a way to fly, but yea. lets you do maneuvers in air.
It also prevents you from losing altitude or flat out divebombing to your death when someone hits you or collides into you. Collision is a harder DC to make so you want to get that pumped up for when a monk climbs up a wall to luchador tackle your half fiend decapus.
that's a lot of big words, but it sounds really cool.
sounds like a plan to deal with fliers...hit them with something.
Well as a note, it only works on fliers that use wings. Magical flying doesn't have to worry about collisions or losing altitude.
Well as a note, it only works on fliers that use wings.I beg to differ, that would make the following from the Fly spell useless: "The subject gains a bonus on Fly skill checks equal to 1/2 your caster level."
He wasn't saying that the Fly skill is only for creatures with wings. He was saying that certain uses of the fly skill (Specifically,the ones below) only apply to those creatures that use wings to fly, but not those that fly with magic. As the second sentence of his post shows.
Attacked While Flying: You are not considered flat-footed while flying. If you are flying using wings and you take damage while flying, you must make a DC 10 Fly check to avoid losing 10 feet of altitude. This descent does not provoke an attack of opportunity and does not count against a creature's movement.
Collision While Flying: If you are using wings to fly and you collide with an object equal to your size or larger, you must immediately make a DC 25 Fly check to avoid plummeting to the ground, taking the appropriate falling damage.
It's like swim, but in the air.
It's like swim, but in the air.
*cough* I rolled natural 20 on my swim check. Didn't fly an inch :|
Yeah, what Jeraa said.
Too tired. Need coffee. *eyes Tiny Coffee Golem*
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A lot of the things that you want to do besides straight line flight, such as Hover,require Fly Checks. I do prefer the current system as a significant improvement over the old maneuverability rating system. (In Pathfinder maneuverability class only refers to the static racial bonus, if any you get to Fly Checks)
