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 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.
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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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Is the Arcane Archer's feature "Banishing Arrow" redundant for a Curse of Strahd character?
My understanding is that, per the "Alterations the Magic" section in Curse of Strahd: -
spells cast for the purpose of leaving Barovia simply fail, as do effects that banish a creature to ...
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Can someone using "Astral Projection" gather materials scattered through the Astral Plane?
Let's say that a bag of holding holding valuable items (I don't think it matters what but tell me if it does) was split in two, and
its contents [were] scattered in the Astral Plane.
In order to ...
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How does the Day/Night cycle work on the Elemental Plane of Fire?
So I found out, that there is a curfew every night in the City of Brass on the Elemental Plane of Fire. This makes me wonder: How does a day/night cycle work on the Elemental Plane of Fire?
Is there a ...
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How does plane-hopping with Astral Projection work?
Astral Projection seems like a pretty good way to explore the world and the planes (setting aside any questions of protecting my wizard's original body and the silvery cord).
However, the plane-...
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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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Are the names of the more generic planes copyrighted under the OGL as Product Identity?
E.g. "Negative Energy Plane", "Elemental Plane of Air", "Material Plane", essentially all the inner planes plus the material plane: Are these considered Product Identity or could I use them for other ...
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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 does Rune Knight's Fire Rune interact with a Succubus' Etherealness ability?
Had a run in with this one in tonight's game. I as the Rune Knight fighter used my fire rune on the succubus that kept running away, thinking I would continue to restrain her. The text reads:
When ...
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How to run tactical combat on the Plane of Air?
My party recently got themselves accidentally transported to the Plane of Air by way of a cursed throne that once belonged to a cloud giant. While there, I intend to run at least one combat where ...
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Can you re-cast Planar Binding to extend duration?
If you have a creature bound from a previous casting of Planar Binding, can you cast it again at a later point to renew the duration? I don't see any reason why not, but I may be missing something.
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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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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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What would happen if you cast Etherealness while on a demiplane?
Randy the Wizard needs to retrieve a sacred object that has been shifted into a demiplane for safekeeping. Randy knows that there are a number of traps and guards on the demiplane so he plans to use ...
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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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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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Can a demon summoned by the Summon Greater Demon spell be summoned into and contained by the spell's blood circle?
Can a demon summoned by the Summon Greater Demon spell be summoned into and contained by the spell's blood circle?
I'm designing a character who can summon demons and bind them with Planar Binding.
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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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In the description of the Amulet of the Black Skull from Tomb of Annihiliation, is the restriction against teleporting to another plane necessary?
The description of the Amulet of the Black Skull from Tomb of Annihilation says, in part:
[...] You can use an action to expend 1 of its charges to transport yourself and anything you are wearing or ...
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Can you recall a soul from Hades with Raise Dead?
Raise Dead (and other resurrection spells) all have a variant of this clause:
Raise Dead: If the creature's soul is both willing and at liberty to rejoin the body, the creature returns to life
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What is the native plane of a larva or lemure?
When a creature dies, and it has a soul, their soul departs to the plane of their deity or their alignment. In case of evil creatures, they may end up in the lower planes.
For Hades, the DMG (p. 63) ...
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In Curse of Strahd, if Strahd is able to allow the Vistani to come and go as they please, can he also grant this ability to PCs?
None of the RAW I've seen has really explained how Strahd grants the Vistani the ability to pass through the deadly mists...
But if he can allow them to come and go, what is stopping Strahd from ...
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Are outsiders stronger in their native planes?
In the campaign I'm playing in, there is internal conflict in the upper planes, and one of the lead instigators is a solar. We've killed it multiple times, but it keeps coming back with reinforcements....
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Are fey crossings bidirectional?
Fey crossings (DMG pg. 50) allow visitors to cross from the Material Plane to the Feywild. The description explains that they require key similarities between the corresponding locations on both ...
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How would you protect yourself from the Negative Plane?
I was looking at Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes and noticed for the Nightwalker info that it said "The plane sucks the life and soul from such audacious [living] creatures" and "Those few ...
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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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What do Salamanders eat?
In the D&D 5e Monster Manual, most elementals state explicitly that they do not require food or drink. This is not the case for salamanders. By omission, they need to eat and drink. The Forgotten ...
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What happens if Majesto (an imp in Curse of Strahd) dies?
Normally, an imp familiar would follow the standard rules for devils
If it dies outside the Nine Hells, a devil disappears in a cloud of sulfurous smoke or dissolves into a pool of ichor, instantly ...
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Is a Clone created in a Demiplane native to it?
For this question, I'll pose it in the form of an example since it gets confusing otherwise
Say I am playing a level 17-20 wizard who wants to use the Clone spell to become immortal, but want a safe ...
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What does the Astral Sea look like?
I am making a campaign where a tarrasque is on a rampage, and the players have to ask a deity to help them defeat it. I was thinking of making them go to the different planes where they could find a ...
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Can a Rope Trick Spell Scroll and a Bag of Holding open up the gate to the Astral Plane?
I am aware that the rope trick spell alone cannot open a gate to the Astral Plane when combined with a bag of holding, as per this Q&A:
Does a bag of holding burst if brought into the space ...
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In Curse of Strahd, how does Dispel Evil and Good's "Dismissal" option affect undead not native to Barovia?
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has the spell Dispel Evil and Good. It has the following function, similar to the spell Banishment:
Dismissal. As your action, make a melee spell attack ...
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Would a Sending spell work on a Petitioner?
If the caster of a Sending spell knew the target in life - and succeeded in contacting someone on another plane - could the spell function if the target became a Petitioner ?
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How do night hags get to other planes to trade their collected souls?
How does a night hag get to the other planes in order to trade their foul earned souls? They seem to have the ability to go to ethereal plane but is that enough?
I checked out generic hag coven ...
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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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Can you make a very very fast demiplane with create demiplane?
My goal is to create a Demiplane where I could craft, taking my time to do it, while time on the material plane would advance very very slowly.
Exemple : 1 year on my demiplane = 1 minute on the ...
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Can the Scrying spell target a location on another plane?
The description of the scrying spell states:
You can see and hear a particular creature you choose that is on the same plane of existence as you.
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Is there a layer of the Abyss that is controlled by celestials?
I heard a rumor that there is a published reference to a layer of the Abyss that is controlled/populated by celestials. Is this true? If so, what source mentions this?
I'm really just curious about ...
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Question about cosmology in 5e [duplicate]
I have a question about cosmology.
I googled for a long time, but did not find the answer to this question anywhere. We have a prime material plane, inside of which crystal spheres(also called worlds) ...
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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.
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How have the various planes changed over the different editions of D&D, including changes of terminology? [duplicate]
Dungeons and Dragons has been around for a long time now, and whilst there are a lot of questions and some very good answers covering a lot of the mechanical and lore-related differences between the ...
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Are the Nine Hells separate planes or a single plane?
Are the Nine Hells/Baator considered a single plane of existence in D&D 5e, or are each of the nine layers considered their own separate planes?
For example, would the spell Scrying, which ...
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How do Dimensional Shackles interact with an Arcane Archer fighter's Banishing Arrow?
An Arcane Archer fighter hits a creature with a Banishing Arrow, and they vanish into the Feywild.
A man in the middle places dimensional shackles on the target (in the Feywild) for 10 minutes.
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Can a character rest while under the Etherealness spell?
Etherealness lasts for 8 hours and doesn't require concentration:
You step into the border regions of the Ethereal Plane, in the area where it overlaps with your current plane. You remain in the ...
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Can there be portals in the Astral Plane that lead to the Elemental Planes?
In the spell description of Astral Projection (PHB pg 215) it indicates the following :
Your astral form can freely travel through the Astral Plane and can
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Repeatedly traveling to the Were Glade for the 1/day 9 hour lycanthropy without a LA?
The Were Glade is a Planar Touchstone site described on page 164 of the Planar Handbook. The text of the book indicates that the higher-order-ability of the site allows you to transform into either a ...
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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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