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 is the difference between non-dimensional space and extra-dimensional space?
Can someone please explain to me the difference between non-dimensional space and extra-dimensional space in DnD 3.5?
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Does the Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion spell's mansion exist on a separate plane of existence?
In particular: the telepathy spell (PHB, p. 281) states:
[...] The creature can be anywhere on the same plane of existence as you. The spell ends if you or the target are no longer on the same plane. ...
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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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Is the interior of a Bag of Holding actually an extradimensional space?
In D&D 5e, is the inside of a bag of holding actually described anywhere as being an extradimensional space/demiplane?
The description of the bag of holding doesn't actually explicitly state that ...
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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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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 you cast banishment on yourself?
Can you cast banishment on yourself from a non-native plane, as a way of returning to your native plane?
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Can I still command/control Prime-cast concentration spells while I am in the Border Ethereal?
If I have cast something like Animated Objects or Bigby's Hand and then follow up the next round with casting Etherealness, can I still command/control those spells?
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Can I use a salad fork to get into the Prime Material Plane?
In several editions of Dungeons and Dragons, the Plane Shift spell requires a forked metal rod, the design and material of which varies depending on the destination plane. Is there any canonical list ...
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Can you maintain concentration on a spell from another plane?
Here are two scenarios:
A powerful enemy caster is concentrating on some high-level offensive spell (Incendiary Cloud, Earthquake, etc.)--one PC casts Banishment and the caster fails the save. Can ...
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If I cast the Banishment spell on myself while in a demiplane, where exactly do I exit?
If I cast the banishment spell on myself while in a demiplane, where exactly do I exit?
Do I exit on my last position on my native plane, a random spot in my native plane, or do I choose where I exit ...
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What is the movement distance to the Ethereal Plane?
How much movement does it count as to go to the Ethereal Plane?
The genesis of this question is that a Glyph of Warding dissipates if it is moved more than 10 feet. My intent is to cast a Glyph of ...
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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 all the ways a player can get to the Astral Plane?
I am planning a campaign where the characters must travel to the astral plane several times, though each subsequent time they lose one of the means to do so (i.e., Astral Projection spell, through the ...
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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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What happens when you put a Portable Hole inside a Bag of Holding while on the Astral plane?
What would happen if someone were to place a Portable Hole within a Bag of Holding while being within the Astral Plane? Would it be the reverse effect?
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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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Where does a traveler arrive when a planar location's unspecified?
When a creature is successfully targeted by an effect that transports the creature to another plane but no location on that plane is specified, where does the creature arrive?
If the plane is the ...
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What determines a creature's native plane for the Banishment spell?
I can't find in the books the definition of “native”, only that a creature type can define its native plane:
Elementals are creatures native to the elemental planes (MM, p. 6)
Celestials ands ...
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Does the Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum spell block summoning creatures into the warded area?
If you secure an area with the Mordenkainen's private sanctum spell and choose the effect:
Planar travel is blocked within the warded area.
Does this prevent summoning creatures into the area via ...
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What does the Banishment spell do inside a Demiplane?
The Banishment spell states the following two things:
If the target is native to the plane of existence you’re on, you banish the target to a harmless demiplane.
If the target is native to a ...
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How do the Planar Shepherd's features interact with the Outlands?
I have recently read up on the Planar Shepherd, and I have a few questions about it regarding its interaction with the Outlands. And while I know the Planar Shepherd is in an Eberron book, and as such ...
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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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Where does an unaligned creature's soul go after death?
In the DMG section on "Bringing Back the Dead" (chapter 1, p. 24), it describes what happens when a creature dies:
When a creature dies, its soul departs its body, leaves the Material Plane, ...
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Plane shift material component origins
A forked, metal rod worth at least 250 gp, attuned to a particular
plane of existence. PhB 245, emphasis mine.
The metal rod must by attuned to a particular plane of existence, does that means that ...
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Defining Realms, Worlds, Kingdoms, Planes, Dimensions and the Multiverse
I have always been confused when trying to think in terms of worlds, realms, and kingdoms. Additionally, I am confused at the difference between planes and dimension. So, what is the difference ...
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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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How would a group get from Toril to Ravenloft and back?
If there were some adventurers who were living in, for example, Neverwinter, and heard rumors about Ravenloft, is it possible for them to get there? Are there people living in Toril who know how to ...
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If a character's body is affected by the Forbiddance or Private Sanctum spells, would it prevent the Astral Projection spell from working?
Both the Forbiddance and Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum spells prevent planar travel in the area of the spell, but does that prevent Astral Projection?
More specifically: Can I cast effectively Astral ...
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What happens when polymorph ends in a demiplane that is too small for the creature?
The Demiplane spell lets you create a permanent room 30 feet in any dimension as a separate plane, which would then be smaller than the Tarrasque.
On the other side I may polymorph a Tarrasque into a ...
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What is the "nature" of a demiplane?
The 8th-level spell Demiplane lets one create a demiplane; further castings can re-connect to the same demiplane or to a new one. Additionally,
if you know the nature and contents of a demiplane ...
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Are the Material Planes comprising the various campaign settings surrounded by a shared set of outer planes?
I'm working on an extra-planar supplement for DM's Guild, and it got me wondering:
Is the 5e cosmological model that the material planes are comprised of all DnD settings, official and otherwise (...
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Can someone inside Otiluke's Resilient Sphere teleport or Plane Shift away?
In my answer to the question What defenses are there against being summoned by the Gate spell? the question came up whether or not someone inside Otiluke's Resilient Sphere can teleport away.
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Can you Plane Shift to a pocket dimension?
The spell Plane Shift allows a character to travel to different planes. RAW, is there any reason I can't use the spell to travel to the pocket dimensions, say the pocket dimension of my familiar?
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Is it possible to move between the worlds of the Material Plane by travelling through the Border Ethereal?
The 'Creating a Multiverse' chapter of the DMG tells us surprisingly little about the Material Plane. There is a list of Known Worlds of the Material Plane (p. 68), and the introduction to The Planes (...
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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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How much of a person or object must cross an extra-dimensional space's interface from inside, in order to attack a target outside of said space?
The party is in the habit of using extra-dimensional spaces such as Rope Trick or Psychoportive Shelter. Recently they want to use it as a sniping blind or bunker.
As per the description of either, ...
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Can I message from an extradimensional space? What is the distance?
The third-level party is currently in a stone tower; the floor we are on has a ladder leading up to a trapdoor in the ceiling, and we have reason to believe that the floor above us may be heavily ...
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How can I explain a race from Eberron showing up in Faerûn?
I know Eberron and Faerûn are different planes, but I have players who want to play warforged. What connections exist between the planes to facilitate a Eberron race ending up in Faerûn?
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Can you become Ethereal in the Outer Planes?
I am playing D&D 5th edition. While reading the DMG, on page 44, it says:
The Inner Planes form a wheel around the Material Plane, enveloped in the Ethereal Plane.
Using the Great Wheel ...
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Is there any precedent for time distortion when traveling to other planes?
I'm currently the DM for a group playing a 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons campaign in the Neverwinter Campaign Setting.
In a recent adventure, my players asked me some unexpected questions, I said "...
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Can Blink and Banishment be combined to have an effect similar to Etherealness?
Imagine the following sequence of events:
The wizard casts blink.
During the next turn, he uses his Ready action to cast banishment on himself once he is in the Ethereal Plane.
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Can you Plane Shift to the plane that you're on?
What happens if you cast plane shift and then attempt to shift to the plane that you're on? I can think of a few reasons this might happen in-game:
For some reason, the PCs don't know what plane ...
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Can you cast a spell on someone in the Ethereal Plane, if you are on the Material Plane and have the True Seeing spell active?
A creature is on the Material Plane and can perceive someone on the Ethereal Plane using the True Seeing spell. Can that creature cast a spell that only requires that they see the character on the ...
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How do I force a party from the Astral Plane?
I am running a high-level, low magic campaign, currently 13th level. When the seas iced over thanks to a Levistus activating an elder relic, the possessed warlock of the party spent some time ...
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Will loot you find on the Astral Plane while using the Astral Projection spell remain in your possession when the spell ends?
While under the effect of the astral projection spell, you have an astral body which has the following rules:
Your astral body resembles your mortal form in almost every way, replicating your game ...
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How can an astral traveller's silver cord be severed? How difficult is it?
The spell Astral Projection has a drawback listed:
While you are on the Astral Plane, your astral body is connected at all times to your physical body by a silvery cord. If the cord is broken, you ...
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Which editions of D&D used these various cosmologies as their default?
There seem to be multiple ways to arrange the planes in D&D. There's the Great Wheel cosmology, the World Axis cosmology and the World Tree cosmology.
The D&D 5e PHB (Appendix C, p. 303 ...
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Does a Quiver of Ehlonna create a gate to the Astral Plane?
In the DMG, the Bag of Holding, Heward's Handy Haversack, and Portable Hole all contain the same language indicating that placing any one inside another (naming those three items by name "or similar ...
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Are there any low-level means to exit the Ethereal Plane to a plane of my choosing?
This question is meant to be an extension of this question on planar travel, this question on lower-level planar travel and this question on using blink and banishment to enter the Ethereal plane.
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