Sooooo I'm thinking that we might have been using this spell incorrectly, though I did base my understanding of it on what a friend/veteran player described their character doing.
As a Wizard I've been casting this on myself as the movement portion of my turn, thus retaining my action to cast other spells or what have you. I've only been considering it be my action if casting it on another creature. Either way it's consuming a spell slot.
The DM hasn't said anything about this but he is a little bit inexperienced and I don't want to be taking advantage. I have absolutely nothing available to me in the way of bonus actions so this seemed like a fair thing to be able to do.
However, we are all quite new to D&D and one thing that people have said to us over and over again is that the rules are malleable and as long as the DM and other players agree you can pretty much do whatever you want. But I am interested to know what other people think of this usage of the Fly spell.
Edit: I do now understand the way it’s supposed work. Mostly I was interested to know if anyone else has ever used it in the alternate way that I’ve described. As I said, I did learn it from a veteran player, so I’m wondering what other people think of this use.
The casting time of fly is an action. You shouldn't be casting it as a bonus action and certainly not as part of your movement as this breaks the action economy. The fact that you have nothing to do with your bonus action doesn't afford you the opportunity to choose whatever spell you like and cast it as a bonus action. You are correct in that the DM can decide it's ok for you to do that, but the DM should be informed if they don't realize what you're doing. That way it's the DMs decision and you don't get called out on it later and look like a cheater.
Casting the Fly spell uses your action. You'd still have an amount of movement equal to your greatest speed minus the distance you've already moved this turn.
Edit: I think it's important to make spellcasters stick really closely to the rules, because they have so many more tools than other characters do. Every little thing a DM is willing to bend, will add up to a pretty massive power boost for a caster compared to a character with no spells, or even with fewer spells.
I wasn't asking for opinions on the morality of using the spell way this way. I literally began by saying that I thought I had misunderstood. As I said, we are all new to the game (including our DM) and still learning.
It's a game and meant to be fun, and this is a forum meant for friendly discussion, so how about you stow the spice in the future.
The short answer is yes you've misunderstood. It takes 1 action to cast the spell and then you have your movement to fly up, forwards, backwards, whichever direction is unoccupied, passing through the space occupied by a hostile creature means it gets to make an attack of opportunity. That is 1 melee attack at you.
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Sooooo I'm thinking that we might have been using this spell incorrectly, though I did base my understanding of it on what a friend/veteran player described their character doing.
As a Wizard I've been casting this on myself as the movement portion of my turn, thus retaining my action to cast other spells or what have you. I've only been considering it be my action if casting it on another creature. Either way it's consuming a spell slot.
The DM hasn't said anything about this but he is a little bit inexperienced and I don't want to be taking advantage. I have absolutely nothing available to me in the way of bonus actions so this seemed like a fair thing to be able to do.
However, we are all quite new to D&D and one thing that people have said to us over and over again is that the rules are malleable and as long as the DM and other players agree you can pretty much do whatever you want. But I am interested to know what other people think of this usage of the Fly spell.
Edit: I do now understand the way it’s supposed work. Mostly I was interested to know if anyone else has ever used it in the alternate way that I’ve described. As I said, I did learn it from a veteran player, so I’m wondering what other people think of this use.
The casting time of fly is an action. You shouldn't be casting it as a bonus action and certainly not as part of your movement as this breaks the action economy. The fact that you have nothing to do with your bonus action doesn't afford you the opportunity to choose whatever spell you like and cast it as a bonus action. You are correct in that the DM can decide it's ok for you to do that, but the DM should be informed if they don't realize what you're doing. That way it's the DMs decision and you don't get called out on it later and look like a cheater.
Casting the Fly spell uses your action. You'd still have an amount of movement equal to your greatest speed minus the distance you've already moved this turn.
Edit: I think it's important to make spellcasters stick really closely to the rules, because they have so many more tools than other characters do. Every little thing a DM is willing to bend, will add up to a pretty massive power boost for a caster compared to a character with no spells, or even with fewer spells.
I wasn't asking for opinions on the morality of using the spell way this way. I literally began by saying that I thought I had misunderstood. As I said, we are all new to the game (including our DM) and still learning.
It's a game and meant to be fun, and this is a forum meant for friendly discussion, so how about you stow the spice in the future.
The short answer is yes you've misunderstood. It takes 1 action to cast the spell and then you have your movement to fly up, forwards, backwards, whichever direction is unoccupied, passing through the space occupied by a hostile creature means it gets to make an attack of opportunity. That is 1 melee attack at you.