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 "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,
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Would Banishment be a viable option to temporarily get rid of a Phase Spider?
In a fight against a phase spider on the Material Plane, would the banishment spell be a viable option to temporarily keep a phase spider out of the fight?
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Are there rules for role-playing in the afterlife?
I want to run a short campaign that starts with the dead PCs' souls adventuring in the afterlife in Kelemvor's realm. Are there rules already for this? If not, what adjustments must I make to the ...
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Is there any lore to suggest that celestials or fey can only be killed on their home planes similar to fiends?
This answer to a different question (about D&D 5e) says:
To open, lets look at a sample of the rules that say you cannot permanently kill such a creature outside of their home plane...
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Which creatures count as "entities from the shadowfell" for the purpose of a Shadow Magic Sorcerer's origin?
The description of the sorcerer subclass "Shadow Magic" (XGtE, p. 50) starts off with the following paragraph (emphasis mine):
You are a creature of shadow, for your innate magic comes from the ...
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What is the Feywild like in realmspace?
The 5th Edition Dungeon Master's Guide describes the Feywild as "an alternate dimension that occupies the same cosmological space" parallel to the "Material Plane". Typically, the Feywild is ...
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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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How is it determined which souls end up in Hell, the Abyss or Abaddon?
In Pathfinder, evil souls may end up in Hell, the Abyss or Abaddon, where various unpleasant fates await them, but how is it determined which plane an evil soul ends up in? I know Pharasma judges the ...
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What happens to a person who is scattered to the astral plane when inside of a destroyed bag of holding
When a bag of holding is destroyed, the contents are scattered in the astral plane. If a person is inside the bag, what happens to their body? According to the accepted answer here: "Will loot you ...
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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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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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How can the positive/negative planes be described?
Unlike the other planes, the positive and negative planes are notoriously sparsely described. In fact, I figured that it wasn't even possible to go there until recently, when I read the description of ...
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Can a demiplane be turned into an eternal hell?
Situation: a mage casts Demiplane to create a wood-walled plane, then torches it before pushing a target into it with the ending of the spell's duration. This essentially seals the poor target into an ...
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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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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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Overview of common languages per plane
For my current campaign I'm exploring lore options regarding planar travel for NPCs and PCs. Where in the books can I find more information about which languages are common in which planes?*
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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 a devil that dies in an area warded against planar travel?
If it dies outside the Nine Hells, a devil disappears in a cloud of sulfurous smoke or dissolves into a pool of ichor, instantly returning to its home layer, where it reforms at full strength. (MM p. ...
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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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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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Does difficult terrain on the material plane impart the same on the ethereal plane?
We encountered a forest which was difficult terrain.
Using the Blink spell a character appeared in the ethereal plane and moved some distance.
My warlock with poor stealth spotted a group of ...
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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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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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What happens when a banished creature would return to an extradimensional space that no longer exists?
Consider the following scenarios.
1. Banished from a portable hole, portable hole is destroyed.
A portable hole is described as a ten foot deep, six foot diameter extradimensional space. Suppose I ...
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Where on the plane does a creature ejected from demiplane go?
The spell Create Demiplane states that
As a standard action, you may eject a creature from your demiplane. [...] An ejected creature goes to the closest plane to your demiplane (usually the Astral ...
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Are there symbols representing the Feywild, the Shadowfell and elemental planes?
Are there symbols representing the Feywild, the Shadowfell and elemental planes (of Air, Fire, Earth and Water)? The player’s handbook of the 5th edition contains symbols for outer planes, are there ...
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What plane is the Tarrasque from?
Lets say that the DM throws his super monster at you and it happens to be a Tarrasque. From what I was looking at it never really tells you what plane of existence they come from so in theory could ...
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Can a ghost touch weapon make attacks from the Ethereal Plane to the Material Plane?
A cleric on the Material Plane wields a weapon with the magic weapon special ability ghost touch. That cleric casts the spell ethereal jaunt. Can the cleric attack corporeal, non-ethereal creatures on ...
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What happens after an Aboleth's body is remade in the Elemental Plane of Water following its death?
According to the Monster Manual (p. 14), when an Aboleth dies, its spirit goes back to the Elemental Plane of Water to get a new body:
If an aboleth's body is destroyed, its spirit returns to the ...
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What is a good way to handle a multi-plane adventure?
Any advice for a group/GM that's new to the concept when it comes to adventures across multiple planes? Ways to make the game more fun, issues to avoid, and potential hazards we may come across, both ...
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Where is the River Oceanus?
The 5e Dungeon Master's Guide has this fluff at the start of Chapter 2: Creating a Multiverse:
When Adventurers reach higher levels their path extends to other dimensions of reality: the planes of ...
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What are the implications of being able to see into the Ethereal Plane in Curse of Strahd?
One of my PCs has the ability to see into the Ethereal Plane (using the spell True Seeing), but I'm not exactly sure what that entails.
To clarify, the spell has multiple effects, most of which are ...
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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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If you cast Blink, do spells with visual/physical effects centered on the caster follow you to the Ethereal Plane?
Suppose a caster is under the effects of the blink spell, and within that same duration they are also under the effects of another spell which has a visual or physical effect that remains centered on ...
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What can a Succubus do in the Ethereal Plane?
The question is regarding the succubus' Etherealness action:
Etherealness. The fiend magically enters the Ethereal Plane from the Material Plane, or vice versa. MM 285
While the succubus is in the ...
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Did the spellplague change the cosmology of other crystal spheres too, or just realmspace?
The spellplague changed the cosmology of Forgotten Realms into the world axis cosmology. Great wheel no more, world tree no more (it seems I missed/skipped this one).
But did the spellplague affected ...
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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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Planar Ownership—how does it work?
Numerous deities and demons are "owners" of planes in the D&D cosmology. My question is for rules sources on the topic how the following questions can be answered:
How is an entity the legal ...
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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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How can I increase plane shift's accuracy?
Upon reading about the Harmonium Peacekeeper Prestige Class (Dragon #315, p47) whose 3rd level Planar Steed ability includes the ability to plane shift once per day from Arcadia to the first level of ...
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Does a Portable Hole break Dominate Person?
The spell Dominate Person states:
Once control is established, the range at which it can be exercised is unlimited, as long as you and the subject are on the same plane. You need not see the ...
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Can creatures outside of Crystal Spheres dream?
Assumptions: all material from spelljammer, 3.0, 3.5, web/dragon and Pathfinder are available. Everything in this campaign setting is being converted to Pathfinder. All available separate campaign ...
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Will the Astral Projection spell end upon entering an Outer Plane?
The astral projection spell states:
If you enter a new plane or return to the plane you were on when casting this spell, your body and possessions are transported along the silver cord, allowing ...
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Determining what plane you are on [closed]
In the game I'm in, we were all put onto some world, "some where".
The world we are on seems to be normal (normal gravity, etc), however there are zero gods.
Is there any way to determine what ...
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Can a character/creature escape the Negative Plane without its Nightwalker being lured back to that plane?
Background: Character of approx 9th level is attempting to find something hidden in the Negative Plane. They will not have access to spells of 3rd level and higher, let alone 7th level and higher that ...
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Is there more lore on the Elemental Plane of Fire than what's in the Manual of the Planes?
The information in the Manual of the Planes on the elemental plane of Fire is fairly minimal. Is there any more information available on the nature and character of the plane of Fire? I'm specifically ...
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Can Word of Recall teleport through planes of existence?
Word of Recall is a 6th level Cleric spell that states
You (...) teleport to a previously designated sanctuary.
It defines this sanctuary as
(...) a location, such as a temple, dedicated to or ...
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How can a PC determine what planes a Cubic Gate is linked to?
The description of the Cubic Gate (DMG, p. 160) states:
The six sides of the cube are each keyed to a different plane of existence, one of which is the Material Plane. The other sides are linked to ...
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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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Are there any planes where time passes more quickly?
Are there any planes in 5e where time passes more quickly?
I was just wondering because I was thinking of providing a situation where my players travel to a different plane, and they come back to ...
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