Flight Widget for Winged Characters

[Peacewhisper]

Related to the suggestion in this thread: Winged Creature and Lasso Jumps

Other servers I've played on, specifically Cormyr & Dalelands and Amia (there may be others) have a widget that allows winged characters to take off and fly from one location to another. On C&D you gain access to this from level 1 on any character through Potions of Flight sold at a vendor. Maybe it shouldn't be THAT accessible, but it would be neat to have for Winged Characters. I've come across places before I wished I could explore, it would be neat if there could be a few secrets only able to be found by characters with wings. Bird Totem druids should also gain access to it, and perhaps you could add a feat or spell for warlocks or favored souls to gain wings too even if just temporarily.

[Kalopsia]

I do like this idea conceptually and the team has discussed it multiple times in the past, but the issue is that winged archers and casters would suddenly be extremely hard (or even impossible) to catch, resulting in very oppressive gameplay possibilities - especially when mountainous terrain comes into play: Fly to an otherwise inaccessible hill, then keep shooting. Melee characters would have no viable counterplay to this, besides running away.

Even if we added a Flight spell (and scroll), this would turn player versus player combat into a repetitive "fly here, fly there" scenario that is both expensive and not particularly enjoyable.

Another aspect is that some areas (for example outdoor sections of player quarters) are meant to be unreachable, despite being out in the open.

Considering all this, it's rather unlikely this will happen in the foreseeable future, unless we figure out a reliable way to 1) detect whether an area is reachable by regular PCs, and 2) how long it would take them to run there. Right now, the engine does not provide such tools.