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#1 matthewswift Aug 27, 2008 23:55:30	Curious as to how strong abilities that let a pc fly would be. I figure a racial encounter power could let certain races move up to their speed in flight for one (or two?) rounds. SO: flight as an encounter power, overpowered?
#2 Nemo_the_Lost Aug 27, 2008 23:59:28	Curious as to how strong abilities that let a pc fly would be. I figure a racial encounter power could let certain races move up to their speed in flight for one (or two?) rounds. SO: flight as an encounter power, overpowered? Well, Fly is a 16th level wizard daily utility power. Does that answer your question? If you limit the flight to a single round and specify a range of 5, it can't possibly be any more broken than Fey Step. But it's also more like a long jump.
#3 aluman Aug 28, 2008 2:30:57	Curious as to how strong abilities that let a pc fly would be. I figure a racial encounter power could let certain races move up to their speed in flight for one (or two?) rounds. SO: flight as an encounter power, overpowered? Well, outside of a Faerunian level world, going by standards Yes overpowered. In Faerunian (ie fairly fantastic) not at all. For balance with exclusion to figuring out if you have faerun or not ask yourself how useful it will be. If there are lots of open ground, Yes. If there is mostly Dungeons - No.
#4 squarecircle Aug 28, 2008 4:19:20	I don't think it's overpowered. Eladrin get Fey Step which is even more powerful, as it doesn't even provoke OAs. Genasi get some kind of 8-square movement ability that can go over any terrain as an encounter (however, it provokes OAs). So flying your speed doesn't seem overpowered to me, compared to those.
#5 ff6shadow Aug 28, 2008 21:10:11	Genasi have two really good movment abilities. They have Swift Current, which lets you shift your speed over ground or liquid terrain while taking no penalty for squeezing, ignore difficult terrain and take no damage for moving over damaging terrain. Or you can pick Windwalker, which let's you fly 8 squares, floating to the ground safely if you don't land before the end of the movement. So five straight minutes of a awesome movement is considered pretty strong, but a single round of awesome movement is considered okay for an encounter power.
#6 squarecircle Aug 28, 2008 22:06:50	Sorry I missed the bit about fly as lasting an encounter. Yes, THAT would be overpowered. However, for a single round, it's fine.