Flight might be an absolute sport changer in D&D. And luckily for you, there are many methods to get entry to it. Here are the most effective methods to fly.

Flight. It’s what humanity has dreamed of ever since they noticed a prehistoric chicken escape from its lifetime of being a dishwasher and sometimes saying “eh, it’s a living.” And in D&D it’s an unbelievable benefit. It permits you to escape melee vary. Soar previous tougher to kill defenders to kill the mages first. And these two issues alone make it nice. But in case you’re a melee character? It might be your solely possibility for coping with flying foes. Otherwise, you would possibly find yourself like the Tarrasque.

How do you acquire that tactical benefit? Turns out, there are many methods to do this.

Be Born with Wings

Do you already know that outdated saying about how if we have been meant to fly, we’d have been born with wings? Well, in accordance with that logic, there are many peoples who have been meant to fly. Quite a lot of PC races are, in reality, born with wings. If you need pure wings, you’ll be able to play an Aarakocra, a fairy, or a winged variant tiefling.

Class Features

You might additionally strive taking issues into your individual palms and utilizing one in all your class options to fly. There are numerous courses which have entry to flights (no less than for a short time). A shocking variety of Sorcerer origins offer you entry to flight (storm, draconic).

Or you could possibly play a tempest cleric, or an eldritch knight fighter so you will have entry to the fly spell. That spell might be essentially the most accessible method to fly, however it’s removed from the one one.

Magic Items

If you’ll be able to’t fly with your individual energy or with your individual magic/class talents, then the subsequent neatest thing is discovering a magic merchandise that permits you to fly. Wings of Flying, Winged Boots, a Carpet of Flying, the checklist goes on. Any one in all these magic gadgets gives you the power to fly – often for about an hour or so.

Winged Mount

Here’s a throwback to the sooner editions of D&D when flying mounts have been all however anticipated as soon as you bought previous a sure level within the sport. Your hero might take flight on a griffon, a hippogriff, a pegasus, an enormous eagle, an enormous owl, probably a dragon– or a flumph in case your DM is slightly wild. But no matter you decide, a flying buddy is the right method to soar into battle, particularly in case you take the Mounted Combat feat.

Become a Ghost

This final one is likely to be slightly excessive, but when it’s worthwhile to fly, it’s price declaring that there are a variety of incorporeal undead who can fly natively. Sure, it’s important to die to turn out to be a ghost, however actually you acquire harm resistance and flight. Plus, you don’t must eat, breathe, or sleep – making you extremely robust to kill certainly.

Happy Adventuring!

Bell of Lost Souls Staff Writer and DM, J.R. covers RPGs of all stripes and every now and then eats sandwiches. You can ask him about both at [email protected]

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