Standing on the carpet and telling the carpet to move does not expend the users move action or allow for opportunity attacks.
Animated carpet 5e.
You can speak the carpet s command word as an action to make the carpet hover and fly.
An animated object can have one or more of the following special abilities depending on its form.
Mighty nein encountered a rug of smothering in the sutan residence.
Rugs of smothering can be made in various forms from a lavish carpet to a common rug.
A carpet has no appendages to use for locomotion so it gets a flying speed of 30 feet.
Four sizes of carpet of flying exist.
Antimagic susceptibility the rug is incapacitated while in the area of an antimagic field if targeted by dispel magic the rug must succeed on a constitution saving throw against the caster s spell save dc or fall unconscious for 1 minute.
The gm chooses the size of a given carpet or determines it randomly.
The rug is incapacitated while in the area of an antimagic field.
The object makes a normal grapple check.
Comparison to animated creatures in the monster manual or elsewhere.
Its speed is 30 feet if the objects lack legs or other appendages it can use for locomotion it instead has a flying speed of 30 feet and can hover.
Likewise objects you animate are not the constructs in the monster manual and don t automatically gain the abilities in the descriptions there.
Rules as written the carpet is a moving platform and does not itself provoke attacks of opportunity.
This is part of the 3 5e revised system reference document.
First of all a carpet that is animated by animate objects can in fact fly.
If targeted by dispel magic the rug must succeed on a constitution saving throw against the caster s spell save dc or fall unconscious for 1 minute.
Known rugs of smothering edit.
Activating the carpet requires an action telling the carpet to move on subsequent actions is a free action.
Animated objects come in all sizes shapes.
It moves according to your spoken directions provided that you are within 30 feet of it.
The object makes a normal grapple check.
References edit see d d.
While it is grappling a creature the rug takes only half the damage dealt to it and the creature grappled by the rug takes the other half.
While it is grappling a creature the rug takes only half the damage dealt to it and the creature grappled by the rug takes the.
Permanent animated objects being created by a different process don t follow the same rules of the spell.
A sheetlike animated object such as a carpet or tapestry can grapple an opponent up to three sizes larger than itself.
Damage transfer while it is grappling a creature the rug takes only half the damage dealt to it and the creature grappled by the rug takes the other half.
A sheetlike animated object such as a carpet or tapestry can grapple an opponent up to three sizes larger than itself.
