Questions tagged [planes]
For questions primarily relating to planes in tabletop RPGs. Self-contained universes holding anything from relatively small motes of matter to entire universes, planes are used in some fantasy role-playing games as settings for the players to adventure in. Travel between planes is usually possible, but often requires traveling to certain spots on one plane or using potent magic or magical devices.
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What are known portals to the Abyss in Greyhawk?
In the 2nd Edition Module WGR6, The City of Skulls, the players are to infiltrate Doraaka, Iuz' capital, to rescue a prisoner. They however cannot teleport there because, as the Master Elementalist ...
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What planar traits prevail in extradimensional spaces?
The great wizard Mordenkainen creates himself a fast-time demiplane, and makes 1 day in the demiplane take 1 minute on the Prime Material Plane. He invites his friends over to a housewarming party. ...
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What are known portals to hell in the Forgotten Realms?
I know that there is (or at least, used to be) one portal in the dungeons under Dragonspear Castle that linked the castle to Avernus, the first level of the Nine Hells. Are there other such fixed ...
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How do nested planes/pockets work?
Outpocketing: Sometimes planar borders bulge and stretch, forming an outpocket, a bulge onto another plane. Outpockets are discrete areas, visible as transparent walls or bubbles on the affected ...
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How can an unwilling Elemental planar ruler be drawn into the Material Plane?
Gate would normally be the answer, but if the planar ruler is unwilling, they would prevent this spell from opening near them:
You conjure a portal linking an unoccupied space you can see within ...
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What would happen if somebody raises someone whose soul has become a demon?
Assuming there's a party fighting that demon, they failed to kill it and let it escape several times.
The spellcaster comes up with the idea that they can just resurrect that demon's original creature'...
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Surviving Bag of Holding Bomb
What ways can you survive a Bag of Holding Bomb (i.e. two extra-dimensional spaces put into each other causing everyone within 10 feet to be sucked to the Astral Plane)? I will first acknowledge the ...
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Traveling through the Astral Plane
I'm new to D&D and I don't understand all of its concepts, for example, Astral Plane.
From what I understand, you can travel there physically through a portal and travel to other planes this way. ...
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Where do you go when a Portal closes from the other side?
What would happen to the PCs who
Which plane do they end up on?
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Can a portal to the Quasi-Elemental Plane of Radiance be used to do damage?
I want to open a portal to the Quasi-elemental Plane of Radiance that'll unleash a big ol' laser that'll probably ruin some monster's day. (Currently I'm considering using dimension door to do it.) Is ...
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Do characters suffer fall damage in the Astral Plane?
My character has a Robe of Stars. Our party is currently fighting an Adult Blue Dragon and the DM has a propensity to grab PCs and fly them to 120 ft in the air and drop them. If my character uses ...
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Is the Planeshifter's "portal under their control" a fixed location or no?
About the portal, the prestige class demiplane seed ability (Manual of the Planes, p32) only says, "It has a single portal entry, which the planeshifter may control for access."
What rules would be ...
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What planes have predictable time warping effects?
In the 5e DMG travel to the Feywild is accompanied by a time warping effect, which is determined by rolling on a random table.
My wizard (semi-inspired by an ancient ball of fun from Critical Role) is ...
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How is a soul different from the living creature that it came from?
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If someone who can cast a spell like Plane Shift or Gate dies, what prevents their soul from simply casting the spell and returning to the Material Plane?
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Would a party of adventurers be able to survive in Limbo for an extended length of time?
Might sound like a strange question but I've got plans for a group of adventurers to be sent to Limbo, though they won't be prepared for a trip through a plane that lacks the basic needs for survival, ...
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Are there any D&D rules for spells addressing past lives and the effects of reincarnation?
To clarify: This is not a question asking about different mechanics of reincarnation, or about a framework for reincarnation that spans any number of D&D variants. The tl;dr is that the question ...
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I'm worried about nerfing the Players too much by adding an immunity to Radiant Damage to a monster type
In my setting most of the Outer Planes have individually suffered apocalyptic catastrophes.
The Abyss has been, for several decades before the players even see their first demon, beset by chronic ...
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Which planes would be easy to survive for PCs of low levels?
Assuming a party of PCs(Level 1) would be banished to a plane other than the Material Plane, which planes listed in the DMG would be the easy to survive on for those players?
Assuming, of course, '...
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Which Planes Border the Astral Plane in the Great Wheel Cosmology?
After going through the Great Wheel Cosmology and going through the various wikia articles on the subject, I feel it's unclear which planes border the Astral one in D&D 5e.
I've found plenty of ...
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What happens to things taken out of a demiplane after the demiplane expires?
Me and my friends were debating a certain idea. Namely using demiplanes as a place to get resources from (such as fertile soil, organic matter, stone and so on. There was also the mention of metals ...
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What happens if you put a Bag of Holding inside another Bag of Holding in Barovia?
The description of the bag of holding (DMG, p. 152-153) says:
Placing a bag of holding inside an extradimensional space created by a handy haversack, portable hole, or similar item instantly destroys ...
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Must the body remain on the Material Plane during astral projection?
The spell 9th-level Sor/Wiz spell astral projection [necro] (PH 201) is one of those high-level legacy spells dating back to at least Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (1978), likely included in Dungeons ...
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Does matter spontaneously move through a gate?
A gate spell is cast, let's say to the elemental plane of water. Now I have a portal with air on one side and water on the other.
Gate says:
and anyone or anything that moves through is shunted ...
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How do you go about reaching the Far Realm?
How do you go about reaching the Far Realm?
I appreciate the lore found in 5e so far about the Far Realm:
Is there any official lore on the Far Realm?
What are all the creatures related to the ...
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Does the Horizon Walker ranger's Portal Lore feature detect portals that are currently inactive?
The Horizon Walker Ranger subclass gains a Portal Lore feature (quoted from Unearthed Arcana; I don't have Xanthar's Guide to Everything to compare the feature):
Portal Lore
At 3rd level, you gain ...
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Is it possible to travel to Ravnica from Toril?
Does Ravnica exist in the same universe as Toril? Is it possible to visit it with a Gate spell, for example? Or maybe it is in the very different universe?
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Is there any way to follow a banished creature to the demiplane?
The spell banishment allows you to banish a creature to a harmless demiplane, where they remain incapacitated for the spell's duration:
You attempt to send one creature that you can see within range ...
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Is there a layer of hell associated with forging or constructs?
I have an idea for a campaign where a particular villain makes a deal with a an archduke of one of hell's layer and that archduke supplies/assists them with evil constructs or helps them build them/...
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What effects can apply to a creature inside a portable hole, from outside? [duplicate]
Related question: Are you considered out of range of spells and weapons when inside the hole of a Portable Hole?
(This question does not have an answer appropriate to the title. Also, the question ...
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Are extradimensional spaces demiplanes?
Spells and items can create extradimensional spaces, for example the bag of holding, and the spells Rope Trick or Mordenkainen's Magnificient Mansion. The spell Demiplane instead explicitly creates a ...
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Is the "pocket dimension" a familiar goes into a demiplane or an extradimensional space?
Find familiar allows wizards to send their familiars to a pocket dimension:
As an action, you can temporarily dismiss your familiar. It disappears into a pocket dimension where it awaits your summons....
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What happens to matryoshka Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansions?
The following situation happened towards the end of our last session(I am the DM): A player cast Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion, so they could take a break to heal up their comrades and rest a bit....
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What are the planes of D&D 4e? Where did they come from, and how are they connected?
I understand that in D&D 4e's default setting there are planes, and I know a bit about them: the material plane is where the people generally are, and there's a "feywild" where the Eladrin and ...
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Is the Planar Bubble created by a Planar Shepherd immobile for its duration or does it stay centered on its creator?
The Planar Shepherd prestige class offers an ability at 5th level to temporarily apply the traits of a specific plane (chosen when you first take levels in the class) to the area around you.
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Does a Planar Shepherd's Planar Bubble affect spells cast from wands or scrolls?
The Planar Shepherd prestige class offers an ability at 5th level to temporarily apply the traits of a specific plane (chosen when you first take levels in the class) to the area around you. This ...
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What spells are maximized on the Plane of Shadows?
The Plane of Shadows has the Enhanced Magic trait, with the effect that:
Spells with the shadow descriptor are enhanced on the Plane of Shadow. Such spells are cast as though they were prepared with ...
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When using the Robe of Stars for astral travel to other planes, can I still return to the Material Plane with an action?
The description of the Robe of Stars is a little vague on the astral travel aspect:
While you wear the robe, you can use an action to enter the Astral Plane along with everything you are wearing and ...
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Can I see through my Familiar's senses/communicate with my Familiar if they are on the other side of an Interdimensional Portal?
This question has been created to help adjudicate the question of whether a Familiar may communicate with their master inside of a Bag of Holding.
Suppose that 5' away from a Wizard is a portal to the ...
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Can Gated Fiends/Celestials Die Permanently?
I am specifically trying to reconcile the wording from the DMG, p.47, with what I know of how planar creatures work.
Traveling through the Astral Plane by means of the astral projection spell ...
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Can I have an interplanar portal return someone to the wrong time or place?
I'd like to create a scenario where the PCs enter some sort of portal for interplanar travel but when they return, they aren't in the same time period OR they aren't in the same location. And they ...
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Is a moon considered to be on the same Material Plane as the planet it orbits?
I was thinking about an adventure where my player characters have to travel to Selûne and come back with a creature found on the moon. However, the creature would be too large for travel by ship (at ...
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How can I control the planar traits of a certain spot, and make it any trait I want?
I want to gain some benefits from the traits of other planes, without leaving my home plane.
How can I control the planar traits of a certain spot, and make it any trait I want?
Being able to turn it ...
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Is there a spell for storing items or objects similar to a Find Familiar?
I remember somewhere I watch a spellcaster bamf an item they had in their hand and make it reappear in their hand at will, explaining it's stored in a small plane that only they can access. But I can'...
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Are you considered out of range of spells and weapons when inside the hole of a Portable Hole?
Let’s say you place a Portable Hole against a wall, then walk inside its hole. Then, an evil wizard casts a fireball in the room where you put the hole.
Considering you are now in an extra-dimensional ...
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Can the Echo of the Echo Knight fighter be used to teleport across planes?
How would we do this if we're to believe this is possible anyways?
The relevant rules say
Manifest Echo
you can use a bonus action to magically manifest an echo of yourself in an unoccupied space you ...
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What is the nature of a demiplane's walls?
The demiplane spell creates a demiplane that appears to be an empty room 30 feet in each dimension, made of wood or stone.
Are these walls actually made from wood and stone? Can a character chip off a ...
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What is the distance to points in another dimension, if there is a portal or gate to it?
This answer (let's call it A) argues that normally the distance to another plane is infinite.
This answer (call it B) states that you can be affected by fireball damage while in a portable hole hole, ...
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Can you use consumables and charges with Astral Projection without really consuming them?
Astral Projection creates an astral copy of your body, replicating your possessions.
Your astral body resembles your mortal form in almost every way, replicating your game statistics and possessions. ...
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In a world without a Shadowfell or Feywild, which player options would be changed/removed?
I am in process of building a world for upcoming campaign. As I already know some things in D&D rely on the fact that the Shadowfell and the Feywild are present.
But what would be the consequences ...
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Is it possible to expand a demiplane?
Casting Demiplane allows the caster to have:
A Medium-only door ('Must be this size or smaller to ride - NO OGRES ALLOWED') that vanishes when spell ends / after one hour.
Creates a permanent (30' × ...
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