Fly Speed

[JTibbs]

So please correct me if I'm wrong, but Fly and overland flight don't allow faser rates if movement is a full round action, correct?

No x3 or x4 rates?

So an Overland Flight spell is 8 miles an hour, and a Fly spell is only 12 miles and hour?

Or can you apply the higher rates?

[BigDTBone]

With Fly and Overland flight you are able to charge, but not run. But you can double move always. My math says 9mi/hr on overland flight, and 13.5mi/hr on fly.

[JTibbs]

BigDTBone wrote:

With Fly and Overland flight you are able to charge, but not run. But you can double move always. My math says 9mi/hr on overland flight, and 13.5mi/hr on fly.

Its very annoying how painfully slow fly and overland flight are... At minimum I'd think their speed should be double that.

[BigDTBone]

JTibbs wrote:

BigDTBone wrote:

With Fly and Overland flight you are able to charge, but not run. But you can double move always. My math says 9mi/hr on overland flight, and 13.5mi/hr on fly.

Its very annoying how painfully slow fly and overland flight are... At minimum I'd think their speed should be double that.

Meh, standard military march is about 3.5~4 mi/hr. Overland Flight is more than double that and doesn't force you to deal with terrain. If you want to travel faster, use teleport.

[Gauss]

If you check overland speeds on CRB p172 the calculations there are also not quite right. My guess, they are either based on taking rest breaks or are based on some 'slowing factor' of the ground over long distances.

- Gauss

[SCPRedMage]

They're based on taking single moves, for eight hours. Double moving is called "hustling", and it isn't something you can do long-term. For each hour you hustle past the first, you take a point of nonlethal damage, and become fatigued.

They're also rounded off for simplicity. Every ten feet of movement speed translates into one mile per hour. With the fly spell, you can travel at 6 mph, or 12 mph if you hustle. With overland flight, you can hustle without penalty at 8 mph.