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Carpet of Flying between 3e, 3.5e, and 5e

I'm returning to this blog after months -- What a raaaandom name for a blog! It obviously ("obviously" to me) refers to the types of material that I consume. Anyway... Since we have such apps as D&D Beyond and Roll20, I as a Game Master decided to tag weight info to every 5e item that I'm aware of. I stumbled on something interesting... . The Carpets of Flying. Using online results of typical carpet weights (2.2 lbs / square foot), I discovered that ... Carpets of Flying are fat-ass heavyyyy!!!: 2.2 lbs / ft ² Carpet of Flying, 3 ft. × 5 ft. 33 Carpet of Flying, 4 ft. × 6 ft. 52.8 Carpet of Flying, 5 ft. × 7 ft. 77 Carpet of Flying, 6 ft. × 9 ft. 118.8 (Imagine logging around carpets that weigh as heavy as the armor on your body!) So I knew I had to check out if they calculated the weights in older versions (yes, they did). And that got me down a mini rabbit hole.  Not to bore you with ALL the details, here are the results of my study: lbs carry 5e MV Carpet of Fl...