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 / ft²
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 Flying, 3 ft.×5 ft.				4.5	26.66666667	120	180	200	222.2222222	200	300	3e	80
Carpet of Flying, 4 ft.×6 ft.				7.2	26.66666667	192	288	320	355.5555556	400	480	600	60
Carpet of Flying, 5 ft.×7 ft.				10.5	26.66666667	280	420	466.6666667	518.5185185	600	700	900	40
Carpet of Flying, 6 ft.×9 ft.				16.2	26.66666667	432	648	720	800	800	1080	1200	30
					26.66666667
Carpet of Flying, 5 ft.×5 ft.				7.5	26.66666667	200	300	333.3333333	370.3703704		500		60
Carpet of Flying, 5 ft.×10 ft.				15	26.66666667	400	600	666.6666667	740.7407407		1000		30
Carpet of Flying, 6 ft.×9 ft.				16.2	26.66666667	432	648	720	800		1080		30
Carpet of Flying, 10 ft.×10 ft.0				30	26.66666667	800	1200	1333.333333	1481.481481		2000		20
						3.5e

Yes.

I know it's a bit complicated ":D

Long story short, D&D calculates their carpets as 0.3 lbs per square foot! :O :O :O

Which -- in hindsight -- isn't too bad. The web results weren't clear and showed me "5 - 2.2. lbs per ..."

The "5" was supposed to have been "0.5" X"D

But these weights got me analyzing carry weights, and so I went into a rabbit hole here.

I mostly only wanted to post the results of my research here, before I deleted them from my Google Sheets, lol. (And if you really wanted to understand a bit more, each column at and after "carry" are different multiplication factors, to see which I wanted to pick, that made the most sense, in "reconciling" the carry weights between versions.)

Okkkkaaayyyy...

ft 2	thick-ness cm	thick-ness inch		lbs
1	0.317	0.125	6.3	0.787
1	0.120	0.047	6.3	0.3
1	0.635	0.25	6.3	1.575
1	0.673	0.265	6.3	1.67

This info is more for me than for you.

In the above table, the 2nd (red) row is for the carpet of flying. 

The first row is a random thickness.

The remaining rows are the typical minimum thickness a carpet has -- 5x the carpet of flying!!! :O

I deduce that the carpet of flying is 5x as light, because of its magical properties. 

So when my players first stumble upon this carpet, I'd tell them it's very thick, but feels super light. And if such a magic carpet enters an area of like "anti-magic," it'd tell my players that the carpet becomes 5x heavier than normal. 

Heheheh >:D