Improved intelligence helps in all of these.ĬommunicationEven when flying isn't much faster than walking, you can fly in straight lines and over terrain obstacles. Warfare is about maneuver, geospatial relationships, intelligence (gathering information), logistics, mobility (in the air), vulnerability, how you hold onto territory, range of effect. Given that ordinary war in a melee age is chaos, most information isn't known to the participants, reconnaissance gives a significant edge in war. This can be done on the small scale (carpets, flying spell, etc.) as well as the large scale (ships). Intelligence/ReconnaissanceLong before airplanes existed, armies used large balloons to see more of a battlefield, to collect useful information. Flying for individuals or small groups (as in spells, rings, brooms, carpets), and.There are two aspects here, which I'll mix in the following: For example, the biggest “believability hole” in the Spelljammer setting (see “ How Would You Design for Spelljammer?”), is that many a smart planet-dwelling captain obtaining a 'jammer will likely use his/her ship to influence land-based wars on his/her planet instead of going out into an unknown full of flying ships. Something that isn't believable breaks immersion. The importance is that we don't want to break immersion.

Here I’m discussing the addition of the impact of flying on a medieval fantasy world such as I described in “ Baseline Assumptions of Fantasy RPGs.' When you change something in your world from how it is in a “real” world, there ought to be consequences for how it affects play.

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