levitate

• School transmutation
• Spell Lists
  • spiritualist 2
  • occultist 2
  • sorcerer/wizard 2
  • medium 2
• Casting Time 1 standard action
• Components V, S, F (a leather loop or golden wire bent into a cup shape)
• Range personal or close
• Target(s) you or one willing creature or one object (total weight up to 100 lbs./level)
• Duration 1 min./level (D)
• Saving Throw none

Levitate allows you to move yourself, another creature, or an object up and down as you wish. A creature must be willing to be levitated, and an object must be unattended or possessed by a willing creature. You can mentally direct the recipient to move up or down as much as 20 feet each round; doing so is a move action. You cannot move the recipient horizontally, but the recipient could clamber along the face of a cliff, for example, or push against a ceiling to move laterally (generally at half its base land speed).

A levitating creature that attacks with a melee or ranged weapon finds itself increasingly unstable; the first attack has a –1 penalty on attack rolls, the second –2, and so on, to a maximum penalty of –5. A full round spent stabilizing allows the creature to begin again at –1.