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I noticed the entry for the spiritualist's phantom says nothing about its movement when it is manifested in incorporeal form, but I would expect it to have some sort of fly speed, like all other incorporeal creatures.
I assumed flight was somehow the natural movement mode for incorporeal creatures, but neither the incorporeal subtype nor the incorporeal universal ability say anything about that, except that incorporeal creatures "pass through and operate in water as easily as they do in air" and "cannot fall or take falling damage," which is more or less inconclusive.
However, given that the phantom acquires the ability of "incorporeal flight" only at 9th level of the spiritualist and that ability says about the phantom that "in incorporeal form, it has a fly speed of 40 feet (good)," one might assume it cannot fly before that. But isn't that weird for an incorporeal creature? Can it move physically at all? How does it move?
Any insight would be welcome. Thanks.
It has a speed and no other information, which means it walks.
It does read in a couple of places like the first draft may have let the incorporeal form have flight from first level, and that it was later changed for some sort of balance - regardless it was as it is not by the playtest.
Though as somewhat weak pets, it gets flying rather late and limited to when it can't do anything much with it. Part of me wants to say "just play a druid".