Stand in mid-air w/o fly speed?

[Getsugaru]

Title is self explanatory. A friend of mine wants his character to be able to stand in mid-air like the air is solid without having a fly speed "like the guys in Bleach do all the time." He's going to be level 5 when he joins our group, but he's okay if he has to wait a bit before he can do it.

Any suggestions?

[Inferno]

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/airWalk.htm
Does this do what you want?

[Private-Prinny]

The first thing that comes to mind is the Air Walk spell. If he's a Cleric or Druid (or has some way of accessing the Air domain), then he can start casting it at level 7.

If he's not a spellcaster, then he can make an item that does it for him. If it was constantly activated, the price would be (4*7*2000)*1.5, or 84,000 GP. There are a few ways to mitigate that. If he used a command word instead, it would be 75,600. With a command word and a cap of 3/day, it would cost 45,360. Mind you, this is still incredibly expensive (slightly more than half the budget of a 12th level character), so I'd personally try to steer him towards being a caster.

[Dusk Eclipse]

Psionic Levitate a psion/wilder/psychic warrior 2 level power which would work perfectly

[Necroticplague]

Their is a feat that allows you to qualify for things as if you had a flight speed, even if you don't (I think it was called Born Flyer or something similar). Once you take that, you qualify for Hover, which allows you to stay in the air. Now the only problem is getting up their in the first place.

[Getsugaru]

He wants to be melee focused, and I barely was able to convince him to not be a primary Monk. Now he's looking at a Scout5/Ninja Spy10/Ghostwalker5.

[Circle of Life]

Balance on clouds?

Doesn't come online for a great long while though.

[grarrrg]

Elocater can freely hover above the ground with no need for spells or items.

Has tricky pre-reqs, but 'can' be entered as early as level 6.

[Hiro Protagonest]

He wants to be melee focused, and I barely was able to convince him to not be a primary Monk. Now he's looking at a Scout5/Ninja Spy10/Ghostwalker5.

Cleric. DMM: Persist Divine Power. Air Walk.

[Thurbane]

Boots of Levitation?

[Turion]

Tashalatora Monk 1/Psychic Warrior 4 with Psionic Levitate? That's pretty melee focused, and can have a Bleachy feel to it.

[Getsugaru]

Elocater can freely hover above the ground with no need for spells or items.

Has tricky pre-reqs, but 'can' be entered as early as level 6.

He wants to be standing/running in the sky; Elocater can only float 1 foot above the ground w/o suffering penalties.

Cleric. DMM: Persist Divine Power. Air Walk.

I guess I probably should have said this before.
Our Party:

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Elf Arcane Ranger 5 (Arcane Ranger Variant) Plans to be an Arcane Archer
Human Bard 5 (Don't remember what he plans to do)
Changling Rogue 5 (possibly going to take Chameleon)
Warforged don't remember class at the moment (when I do, I'll update this post)
Shadow Fox Hengenyoki Wujen 4 (Oriental Adventures Version)
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I should mention that my DM has decided that I could give up 2 spell secrets to instead have access to a single other class's spell list and be able to put them in my spellbook (I chose Archivist, he allowed it).

[Getsugaru]

Accidentally posted it twice.

[Hiro Protagonest]

Well, it turns him into an NPC warrior with a higher strength score and an extra few HP that can't be healed. He still has the rest of his spells, I guess, but if he's going for anime/manga, he'll probably want things like Silent Still Bear's Endurance (he makes himself tougher by concentrating REALLY HARD), and Silent Still healing spells (he becomes less tired by concentrating REALLY HARD).

[DonEsteban]

Just homebrew something.

Boots of levitation - Levitate at will (he doesn't want that!) - 7500
Winged Boots - 5/day fly for 5 minutes - 16000
Winged vest - 5/day fly for 5 rounds - 12000
Cloak of the bat - fly (7 minutes, unlimited times per night) - 26000
Wings of flying - permanent fly - 56000
Cloudwalker anklets - permanent air walk - 50000

[Runestar]

There's a shadow hand stance which does just that, but can't recall the lv offhand, 5th? Meaning he would need to be a 9th lv swordsage?

[Zaq]

There's a shadow hand stance which does just that, but can't recall the lv offhand, 5th? Meaning he would need to be a 9th lv swordsage?

Balance on the Sky. It's an 8th level stance, so your Swordsage IL has to be at least 15. Probably not viable in this case.

[Private-Prinny]

I should mention that my DM has decided that I could give up 2 spell secrets to instead have access to a single other class's spell list and be able to put them in my spellbook (I chose Archivist, he allowed it).[/SPOILER]

I will point out that the Archivist Spell List contains exactly 0 spells. It cribs all of its spells off of other Divine classes.

[Getsugaru]

I will point out that the Archivist Spell List contains exactly 0 spells. It cribs all of its spells off of other Divine classes.

My DM ruled that the Archivist spell list is actually all divine spells, but that until I reached a certain level, like an Archivist, I'd only have Cleric divine spells. He allowed it only because the Archivist uses a spellbook too. Luckily, the mansion we're about to clean of Gnolls is owned by a Wizard with a vast collection of tomes, and he's sending us in because of three things:
1. He kind of dropped his spellbook in his library when the Gnolls attacked.
2. His familiar was badly injured and he's trying to heal it.
3. The Gnolls need to be cleared out quickly before they activate one of the Wizard's golems because many of them are incomplete and would go on a rampage, destroying the nearby town. He also mentioned a Nimblewright under his breath (Listen check 15)...

[TwylyghT]

Elocater can freely hover above the ground with no need for spells or items.

Has tricky pre-reqs, but 'can' be entered as early as level 6.

not to mention 10' foot steps and dim-door fit the flash step flavor quite well too.

[Prime32]

He wants to be standing/running in the sky

And how would this be mechanically different from flying? Raptoran or dragonborn is the easiest way to pick it up.

[Getsugaru]

And how would this be mechanically different from flying? Raptoran or dragonborn is the easiest way to pick it up.

He doesn't want wings or to have to deal with fly checks. That, and he's taking a Character Trait Twice (DM Okay'd it) plus some other stuff to have a base land speed of about 75ish. Also, he's decided on being either a Poison Dusk Lizardfolk, a Human, or (for some reason) an Elan. He's also allowed one template (he's refused all winged templates).

[Dusk Eclipse]

Is this for a pathfinder game? Because in D&D there are no fly checks...

[Morph Bark]

I should mention that my DM has decided that I could give up 2 spell secrets to instead have access to a single other class's spell list and be able to put them in my spellbook (I chose Archivist, he allowed it).

He does know the Archivist doesn't have a spell list, right?

[Prime32]

Talk to the DM and get him to change the name of the white dragonspawn template and Hover feat to "guy who can walk on air" and "guy who performed a ritual to let him walk on air".

He can now stand still in the air or walk in any direction at his land speed.

[Mephibosheth]

I know it still grants a fly speed, mechanically, but what about the Airstep Sandals soulmeld (Magic of Incarnum, p. 55)? He would get 10 feet of movement through the air (plus whatever he can gain by investing essentia) with good maneuverability, all fluffed as walking on air (there's even a picture on p. 65!). He could get access with a single incarnate dip or the shape soulmeld feat. 4 levels of incarnate or the open least chakra feat would get him access to his feet chakra and improve his maneuverability to perfect, making it even more like walking on air. He would have to land at the end of each turn, but otherwise it seems like a good fit. And once again, although the mechanic of it is a fly speed, everything about the fluff says "walking on air." He could shape the soulmeld as early as level 1 and have the chakra bind as early as level 4 (if he goes the incarnate route) or level 6 (if he goes the feat route).

[Getsugaru]

He wants to not have a fly speed because of his crazy high base land speed.

[Hiro Protagonest]

I still say cleric with Air Walk. DMM: Persisted Air Walk and DMM: Persisted Divine Power.

[Morph Bark]

DMM: Persisted Air Walk and DMM: Persisted Divine Power.

DMM: Persisted Air Walk I could see working perfectly and perhaps being allowed by the DM. DMM: Persisted Divine Power not, considering the party line-up. The highest-Tier character in there is a Wu Jen, and that one is Tier 2 or 3.

[Hiro Protagonest]

DMM: Persisted Air Walk I could see working perfectly and perhaps being allowed by the DM. DMM: Persisted Divine Power not, considering the party line-up. The highest-Tier character in there is a Wu Jen, and that one is Tier 2 or 3.

He's an NPC warrior with a higher strength score. I don't see him as the type to use any overt spells, if he wants to be a warrior, more of a self-buffer.