Making a silver surfer board

[Shinoskay]

I am looking at putting together a board, much like a silver surfer board, that will let a char sail through the air using something like the flying skiff but more kin to a board.

Alternatively, upgrading a sailing ship so it can do a flying skiff thing would be great too... because a flying sled cant really use heavy weapons and if I am going to use a big ship (flying skiff can use one but it's just not enough) then I'd rather use one with big weapons

[avr]

Animated objects can have the flight movement mode and are probably the easiest way to make a flying ship. If you're looking at something surfboard size though I'd use a flying carpet.

[Orodhen]

Does it have to be a physical item?

You can achieve a similar effect by using Floating Disk and the Magic Trick feat for it, allowing you to fly around on the disk (which could be refluffed into a surfboard shape), and do other things should you have the prereqs described in the feat.

[pad300]

Reflavor a brooms of flying or a flying carpet?

[Shinoskay]

I would rather it be something particularly durable and hard to dispel. flying carpets, animated objects, and the such usually have low caster levels and only double digit hp where as ships and other vessels/vehicles can have upwards to 900. perhaps I can animate object a whole ship, I guess I can look into that.

there is also the peripheral benefits of flying skiff and its larger variant. flying skiff gives planeshift ones a day and flying sled gives other neat benefits.

Also, a carpet, disk, and such cant have siege or heavy weapons on it.

One of the best benefits of flying skiff is it's weapon can be directed remotely.

[Scott Wilhelm]

Shinoskay wrote:

I would rather it be something particularly durable and hard to dispel. flying carpets, animated objects, and the such usually have low caster levels and only double digit hp where as ships and other vessels/vehicles can have upwards to 900. perhaps I can animate object a whole ship, I guess I can look into that.

Sure, but in terms of the rules, I don't think the magic involved in making a Broom of Flying is much different than making a Surfboard of Flying or an Adamantine Surfboard of Flying.

[Scott Wilhelm]

I found something.

[baggageboy]

Have you seen the feat: magic trick (floating disk)?

This is the closest thing in Pathfinder I've seen you a silver surf board.

[Meirril]

Shinoskay wrote:

I would rather it be something particularly durable and hard to dispel. flying carpets, animated objects, and the such usually have low caster levels and only double digit hp where as ships and other vessels/vehicles can have upwards to 900. perhaps I can animate object a whole ship, I guess I can look into that.

Normally crafters produce magic items at the minimum level possible because raising the caster level also raises the price of the item. Talk to your GM and see what he says about raising the caster level of an item. Of course, this means a custom made item.

Also you can talk about using more sturdy materials when producing an item. Again, this is going to significantly impact the cost of production.

Broom of Flying is 17,000 and CL 9 for 9 hours of flight per day. Honestly, not quite good enough for the Silver Surfer's board.

The smallest of the Carpet of Flying series is perfect for the Silver Surfer's board. Especially the bit about following commands even when the controller isn't on it. 20k and CL 10.

Both are based off of Overland Flight. Trying to reverse engineer a flying carpet with the magic item creation rules leads to Command Word: 4th x CL 10 x 1800 = 72,000gp from formula.

So obviously flying carpets and brooms of flying aren't priced according to the formula. Still the formula can be used as a guideline to altering the price. If you want to raise the CL you should divide by the current CL and multiply by the desired CL. You obviously can't lower the CL because the item should already be at the minimum CL allowed. (shush all of you Pearl of Power haters)

So if you wanted a CL 20 Carpet of Flying it would be 20k/10 x 20 or 40k. Basically 2k per CL with a minimum of CL 10.

As for making the board itself, I don't even want to try and figure it out. Look at breaking things and probably base the stats off of a door or other flat object. The cost of the board is separate from the cost to turn it into a magic item.

[Melkiador]

The cauldron of flying comes to mind.

[CopperWyrm]

The Magic Trick (Floating Disk) feat might be useful.