Questions tagged [teleportation]
For questions about teleportation, an event where matter disappears from one place and appears instantly in another, no matter if the means are magical or technical.
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Can Bag of Holding + Portable Hole Turn Enemies Inside-Out?
First, the player is swallowed by a large monster, such as the Tarrasque or a Dragon. Next, the player puts a bag of holding into a portable hole. This opens a gate to the Astral plane inside the ...
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How many creatures can step through a Teleportation Circle before it closes?
The party has just rescued 100 slaves. How many of them can conceivably enter a teleportation circle before the spell ends? It seems absurd to think all 100 can make it.
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Does teleporting off of a mount count as "dismounting" the mount?
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Is "dismount" in the first sentence of the first paragraph on "Mounting and Unmounting" section of the rules using the generalized meaning of "dismount" ...
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Does teleportation count as movement for the sake of One with Shadows invocation?
The Eldritch Invocation, One with Shadows states
When you are in an area of dim light or darkness, you can use your action to become invisible until you move or take an action or a reaction.
So does ...
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Plane shifter Hole of Oblivion (patent pending)
A Warlock who takes the Planeshifter paragon path can use an ability at level 12 called Quick Portal. At 15, that same Warlock could learn Create Teleportation Circle and say create a teleportation ...
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Can Abrupt Jaunt take me out of a grapple?
I have a question after a combat with animated furniture:
I have the ability Abrupt Jaunt
Wizard specialist ability from PHB2:
Abrupt Jaunt (conjuration): You teleport up to 10 feet.
Activating this ...
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Can You Use Teleportation to Stand Up?
I feel like most tables end up asking this question and I think it usually comes down to a table by table decision, but can a caster who has been knocked prone use teleportation to stand up again? I'm ...
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Does a Portal's mana cost cover the sympathetic nature, or is that another +1 mana?
The spell description for Portal (Space***; M:Aw p 238) gives a casting cost of one mana. It also mentions how the number of successes required is based on the caster's sympathetic connection to the ...
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Does banishment banish carried or worn equiment?
A commonly accepted interpretation rule for spells is that spells only do what they say they do, nothing more. Shocking grasp does not electrify water, fireball does not evaporate it.
So a spell that ...
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Teleport to a location currently occupied by a creature
A player wants to teleport home, grab someone, and teleport back.
There is a creature or object in the room that they player wants to teleport to.
Other spells, using dimension door (PHB pg. 221) as ...
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What is the limit of dim light for the purposes of shadow teleportation?
Shadow monks and shadow sorcerers are able to teleport from one area of dim light or darkness to another.
What would you say is the limit of the area of dim light? For example, by using a large ...
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What would happen if I put an Immovable Rod (or in general an object) into a closing portal?
Visiting the lost mansion of a conjurer, where portals were opening for a few seconds, a sorcerer tried to keep open one that led to the Elemental Plane of Fire blocking it with an Immovable Rod.
I'm ...
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What is the likelihood that my players can succeed in this escape the city scene?
First-time DM running Curse of Strahd for 6 first-time players. In our upcoming session, I'm going to have Strahd appear in the sky and demand that the citizens of a town bring him an NPC he has been ...
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Can I switch the monk's astral projection spell in the Empty Body feature with something more convenient, like plane shift?
The Monk's 18th level feature Empty Body allows the monk to cast Astral Projection on themselves only:
Additionally, you can spend 8 ki points to cast the astral projection spell, without needing ...
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How can I teleport with an unwilling creature?
It will happen sometimes that my party has captured and subdued a bad guy that we don't wish to kill (but do want to keep with us for interrogation or etc purposes). The bad guys are generally very ...
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Can you teleport into an antimagic field?
Are you able to use teleportation magic, most notably Dimension Door and (Greater) Teleport, to enter an active Antimagic Field?
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Can twinned Vortex Warp proc Spirit Guardians damage if teleporting the Spirit Guardians carrier?
So I've got Twinned Spell and Vortex Warp. I'm looking to abuse this in conjunction with hazard zone spells; one of particular interest is Spirit Guardians. What I want to do is take my ally from ...
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How to handle teleporting players into another character's memories?
In my world, I have an NPC (Baron) who made a deal with a devil (Stan) which requires Baron to maintain a diary in exchange for immortality. The many volumes of the diary serve to give Baron his ...
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Way to prevent teleportation
My party (average level 10) just had a pre-boss fight. That was an opportunity for me to make them spend some of their resources, because they thought that was actually the big bad boss fight.
So we ...
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Can you Misty Step past a Wall of Force? [duplicate]
A Wall of Force is invisible. Misty Step allows you to
Teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see.
Can you Misty Step past a Wall of Force?
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Would a constrained portable door magic item be game-breaking?
In their next session, the players will encounter one of the major NPCs involved in a massive plot to free a banished god from the Abyss. This NPC (the Count Dooku of the story so far) has a way to ...
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Does a “carried” creature get brought along when teleporting using the Echo Knight’s Manifest Echo bonus action?
My character is in a sack and being carried by an Echo Knight fighter who teleports using the bonus action from Manifest Echo:
You can use the echo in the following ways:
As a bonus action, you can ...
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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 does Protective Bond interact with Armor of Agathys?
Armor of Agathys
A protective magical force surrounds you, manifesting as a spectral frost that covers you and your gear. You gain 5 temporary hit points for the duration. If a creature hits you with ...
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Can a permanent Teleportation Circle be made on a moving vehicle?
There is a similar question about this for 3.5e, but can a permanent teleportation circle be created on a large moving vehicle? For example, a sailing ship, or a wide portable floor?
The spell says:
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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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Is a teleportation circle’s shimmering portal always open?
There is some disagreement regarding the status of a shimmering portal for a permanent teleportation circle.
My understanding is that the permanent circle has a permanently open shimmering portal.
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Where do you end up when you cast Dimension Door from an extradimensional space?
There are a number of limited, extradimensional spaces, for example the ones created by demiplane, a bag of holding, or a portable hole.
Say you are in a closed portable hole, bag of holding or ...
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How can one create a permanent walk-through-portal to another location?
I'm looking for a way to create a permanent portal between two locations (on the same or on different planes, though the latter is more important), without using homebrew (UA is fine) or relying on DM ...
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Can you Wish to teleport someone into a reversed Magic Circle?
The rules of magic circle state that a being of the target type cannot enter/exit except by use of teleport/planar travel, succeeding on a Cha Saving throw.
If I go by the description, I read it as: ...
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Does a wizard pass through the Astral Plane when teleporting?
My wizard has access to dimension door and misty step. The problem is that in my campaign, the Astral Plane is broken, inaccessible, and mingled with the Material Plane, therefore unable to be ...
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When is an object sufficient for safe Teleport?
Teleport can go wrong even when you are very familiar with the destination, but if you have an associated object, you can arrive at the right destination with 100% certainty.
The spell describes an ...
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Does a Globe of Invulnerability spell block outsiders from teleporting inside with a spell?
The Globe of Invulnerability spell states:
Any spell of 5th level or lower cast from outside the barrier can't affect creatures or objects within it, even if the spell is cast using a higher level ...
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When a creature travels via a teleportation spell, what can it carry?
There are various teleportation spells in 5th Edition D&D. Most of them have language like "You teleport" or "This spell instantly transports you".
Some, like Dimension Door, ...
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What constitutes an object when using teleport?
There doesn't seem to be a weight limit on teleport anymore but, for the purposes of looting a dungeon, what is an object?
I can see how you can fill a chest and then teleport the chest and its ...
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Is a starship locked in geosynchronous orbit considered "stationary" for the purpose of teleportation between ships?
Teleportation rules in Starfinder are sketchy. In combat, two ships are not moving relative to one another and Teleportation is impossible. However, if ships are stationary and not in combat, ...
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Can you teleport more safely through scrying?
Scrying allows you to see a place somewhere else:
You can see and hear a particular creature you choose that is on the same plane of existence as you. (...) Instead of targeting a creature, you can ...
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Can I use Dimension Door to teleport onto the shoulders of an ally?
A friend and I are having a dispute on the wording of the spell description and mechanics behind Dimension Door. He attempted (and succeeded) in a creative use of the spell in a game he is in, and ...
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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 does initiative work when teleporting into combat?
A Wizard PC Teleports their party from a safe place directly to the location of a group of foes, who the party intends to attack.
If the foes did not know this was about to happen, they should be ...
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Do teleportation spells conserve momentum?
To be more specific, do teleportation spells conserve momentum from before to after the obvious infinite violation of momentum conservation inherent in instantaneous magical travel? Credit to nitsua60 ...
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Can you use an associated object gathered by someone else to teleport?
A bard has recently joined our party. In addition to adding a certain savoir faire, they can teleport, so we now have two teleporters. The possibilities are endless.
I have a small collection of ...
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For the Horizon Walker ranger's Distant Strike feature, can you teleport, then move, then attack? Or must the attack immediately follow the teleport?
I have yet to find clarification on when exactly the teleportation from the Horizon Walker ranger's Distant Strike feature must occur relative to the actual attack. The description of the feature says ...
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How can a wizard create a permanent teleporter?
Teleport traps and teleport rooms are classic tropes for both dungeons and wizard towers. You enter the room, you get teleported. In old school dungeons typically without a saving throw, and sometimes ...
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If the Eldritch Knight fighter's bonded weapon hits a creature, could that creature teleport with the weapon?
The Eldritch Knight fighter's Weapon Bond feature states (PHB page 74):
[...] If it is on the same plane of existence, you can summon that weapon as a bonus action on your turn, causing it to ...
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How to get the most out of my Fey Step teleporting
As an eladrin from Mtof, I have access to the fey step ability. I have already decided to take at least a couple levels of rogue. Assuming I can multi-class my character, is there any way to get the ...
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Protective Bond + Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere combo, how to rule?
Can anyone explain to me how the combo is going to work?
Peace Cleric uses its Protective Bond.
Cleric protects himself with sphere.
Cleric uses its reaction to protect an ally and get all damage. ...
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Who gets teleported when a Glyph of Warding with Teleportation in it is triggered?
I am a player in a campaign vs campaign game (players versus players), and was trying to find a way to defend my evil wizard tower. One idea was to create an unavoidable trap to teleport players out ...
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Can one escape a net by Misty Step? [duplicate]
Lets say a creature is hit by an attack with a net, becoming restrained per the net’s description.
Can the creature free themselves from the net with misty step?
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