
The broom can be sent without a rider to a location familiar to someone who speaks its command word, so long as that location is within 1 mile. This and the earlier post about "riding" a broom as a playing kid will change my reply to "If the broom is grasped while riding it will become invisible, the carpet won't. The broom has a flying speed of 50 feet and can carry up to 400 pounds, though its speed is reduced to 30 feet when carrying more than 200 pounds.

Give them a very weak Broom of Flying, let it go about 5 feet off the ground and no faster than their movement speed, but give her a second magic item to make up for it, because at that point the broom really would just be flavor. that’s how i’ll probably rule it if it comes up and I’m GMĪ good argument. As they get more powerful, the broom will begin to regain it's original abilities. I think it makes sense that invisibility would follow the same rules of item interaction as the items being “attended” or not for the purpose of saving throws. “An item attended by a character (being grasped, touched, or worn) makes saving throws as the character (that is, using the character’s saving throw bonus). Looking at item saving throws again though I do think it was their intention that “attended” items would go invisible with you.

A 'carpet of flying' is similar to a broom of flying, except that either the speed or capacity is slightly better than the broom depending on model. Wings of flying require attunement, grant a fly speed equal to your move that may be used only in 1 hour bursts, and are rare. It could be their intention that all gear the character was interacting with would be invisible, but they didn’t say so. A potion of flying lasts only 1 hour, and is very rare. A fun way to make the Broom of Flying an uncommon no-attunement item that doesn't make other magic items obsolete is to require you to use an action to send it to a destination.

There is nothing in the description about how you control it. It’s not all gear that vanishes, it’s gear being carried, which includes gear that is worn. A reading of the Broom of Flying is that you can speak a command word, and it hovers. It then hovers beneath you and can be ridden in the air. Assuming no invisibility is involved, a spell is cast at the carpet, does the carpet use the save bonuses of the character or its own?įrom there, I would determine if the carpet is gear or not. This wooden broom, which weighs 3 pounds, functions like a mundane broom until you stand astride it and speak its command word.
