You can speak the carpet's command word as an action to make the carpet hover and fly. It moves according to your spoken directions, provided that you are within 30 feet of it.
Four sizes of carpet of flying exist. The DM chooses the size of a given carpet or determines it randomly.
A carpet can carry up to twice the weight shown on the table, but it flies at half speed if it carries more than its normal capacity.
Notes: Set: Speed (Flying), Movement, Utility, Exploration
They would be knocked off the carpet.
There is a tortle cleric in my campaign that is prisonner of the drows, who has had such a carpet for years and only used it as a bed. Not knowing its true nature, for plot reasons.
My players are now getting to a city that has an entrance to the underdark. They should meet the cleric in a few weeks. Maybe a month. I hope they don't read this, but they're going to need this flying carpet in the future.
Would Greater Invisibility make the Carpet invisible along with the character?
The characters in my group weigh 891 pounds. With their inventory, 1,581 pounds.
They will fly, but they have to do it day and night to reach a relevant distance.
Our party found a magic carpet as a random magic item but my DM was reluctant to let us have it. Since I am a HGtTG fan, I convinced him to give us a flying hand towel. My wizard has trained it and eventually made it his Familiar. I have created a training matrix, carrying capacities, wind effects and even stats for "Scrubs". Dipping himself in water, rolling up and whip popping is his attack. My DM has regretted it ever since.
me and my party nearly died to one.
This is definitely the way to go. It all honesty, I have never seen a flying carpet actually used in a campaign and it not be treated as a companion character (very similar to the carpet in Aladdin). Like... why wouldn't you?
Every campaign I've ever been in that has a flying carpet, they even get named lol. In the campaign I DM, the party has a carpet named Patches who's a bit of a scaredy cat. In the campaign I play in, one character has a carpet named Billup who's basically their family's pet.
My questions are more mechanical.
1 - How many people can fit on it? Like, how big does it need to be to fit a party of 5? How bout 7?
2 - If you're making it, I think I'd require the crafters to have available and use the Awaken spell. Does this sound crazy?
It would be cool to retrofit a flying carpet with stuff like a cabin or a deck gun. It'd require Arcana checks, maybe some rare materials, but you'd have a magical Learjet.