Could you use the Broom of Flying as a pack animal with some custom made saddle bags. I was reading the description and saw you can send it somewhere, by itself, and have it come back. However it doesn't say if you can just have it hover behind you.
Sure it wouldn't be the cheapest pack animal, but it would be able to follow you places that other mounts couldn't. You could also send it right in the air during battles to keep your loot safe.
As written, the Broom of Flying has very specific uses, and hovering besides you isn't one of them. As per usual in 5th edition rules, if something isn't stated, you can't make assumptions about it - you fall back to general rules. Since normal brooms don't hover (if you're not Force sensitive, at least), magic ones don't either. :p Compare, for example, with Tenser's Floating Disk.
I suppose you could use it as a mobile chest. Leave it at your camp, call it when you need to pick something up or stash loot, and send it back. You better make sure your camp is safe, however, and don't stash items you may need in a hurry there, like your Potion of Healing.
Or you could find a sentient one (like in so many works of fiction), that can actually hover next to you, or even clean your porch while you nap.
Or your DM may allow it regardless, because he likes the idea. You don't lose anything by asking. :p
I don’t mean to necropost but this has become relevant for me recently.
In the description it explicitly says that after flying, when you land, it stops hovering.
But nothing in the description says what happens after you send it somewhere. It doesn’t state whether the broom goes to it’s destination and then becomes a normal broom or if it goes there and then hovers in place until called upon again.
I’d be inclined to believe, since it was explicitly stated for riding it but not stated for solo destinations, that when it arrives it simply waits in that spot, affixed in space until the command word is spoken again.
Based on this I would think you could tie some backpacks or saddlebags to it, then tell it to fly 1,000ft. up in the air, and it would stay there in the sky until you told it to come back down.
If THAT was true, then I see no reason why you couldn’t keep giving it the command word and have it keep moving to a location directly behind you but 5ft. above the ground as you walked down the road.
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Could you use the Broom of Flying as a pack animal with some custom made saddle bags. I was reading the description and saw you can send it somewhere, by itself, and have it come back. However it doesn't say if you can just have it hover behind you.
Sure it wouldn't be the cheapest pack animal, but it would be able to follow you places that other mounts couldn't. You could also send it right in the air during battles to keep your loot safe.
Hmm.
As written, the Broom of Flying has very specific uses, and hovering besides you isn't one of them. As per usual in 5th edition rules, if something isn't stated, you can't make assumptions about it - you fall back to general rules. Since normal brooms don't hover (if you're not Force sensitive, at least), magic ones don't either. :p Compare, for example, with Tenser's Floating Disk.
I suppose you could use it as a mobile chest. Leave it at your camp, call it when you need to pick something up or stash loot, and send it back. You better make sure your camp is safe, however, and don't stash items you may need in a hurry there, like your Potion of Healing.
Or you could find a sentient one (like in so many works of fiction), that can actually hover next to you, or even clean your porch while you nap.
Or your DM may allow it regardless, because he likes the idea. You don't lose anything by asking. :p
I don’t mean to necropost but this has become relevant for me recently.
In the description it explicitly says that after flying, when you land, it stops hovering.
But nothing in the description says what happens after you send it somewhere. It doesn’t state whether the broom goes to it’s destination and then becomes a normal broom or if it goes there and then hovers in place until called upon again.
I’d be inclined to believe, since it was explicitly stated for riding it but not stated for solo destinations, that when it arrives it simply waits in that spot, affixed in space until the command word is spoken again.
Based on this I would think you could tie some backpacks or saddlebags to it, then tell it to fly 1,000ft. up in the air, and it would stay there in the sky until you told it to come back down.
If THAT was true, then I see no reason why you couldn’t keep giving it the command word and have it keep moving to a location directly behind you but 5ft. above the ground as you walked down the road.