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« Last post by Thot on May 25, 2024, 03:08:54 AM »
So, my players are approaching a city in a magically advanced kingdom, where it is common to produce, trade and use all kinds of enchanted products. To the point where weapons are usually staffs enchanted with lightning bolt (which are produced in masses, for the king's armed forces, which containt astonishingly few Fighters, but all kinds of more attunement-inclined professions). Selfwinding clockwork tanks using half-boles (enchanted with with fire balls and other area effects) as main guns, Constructs as heavy infantry, Bottomloess Reservoirs for ammunition of repeater crossbows, lightsaber-like blade weapons as a last resort, etc. This is all terribly expensive, but the king and his predecessors have been accumulating this kind of gear for a long time, and attract all kinds of extremely talented and experienced alchemists from all over the world. (I imagine this realm's GDP to be enormous, compared to your typical fantasy nation).
Now, one obvious trope for such societies are aircraft or air travel of some kind (in addition to some enchanted teleportation portals). Which begs the question how they might look like.
A simple approach is to simply enchant a rod (or staff) with Fly I (or Fly II). This would cost something like 390 silver pieces (or 720 for the staff), allow for flights, with recharge cost being 20 for 30 charges (or 28 for the staff, for 100 charges).
For the occiasial Flyer, a Daily Ring of Flight might be a better option. 544 silper pieces for Fly I, or 924 for Fly II.
A more luxurious item would be a Constant Ring of Flight, for 2,090 silver pieces for a Fly I version, or 2,318 for Fly II.
But suppose I do not just want individual flight, but I want to move large amounts of passengers or cargo to unknown locations (so Teleport is out of the question). Many fantasy settings have sky ships. Maybe I am overlooking them, but apart from doing a multicopter design using Perpetual Motion with some kind of transmission to steer, I am not quite seeing a good option for that? The "flying sail ship" trope is apparently not in Treasure Law or Spell Law?
A bild-like Construct with wings might be possible, depending on understanding of flight mechanics. But that would probably be limited in size?