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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Does the Wall of Force spell block teleportation?
Does the Wall of Force spell in 5e block teleportation? This does not seem to be addressed in the 5e spell description.
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Can you use a readied action to teleport out of the way of a weapon attack?
Let's say that a player uses the ready action and says "If a character aims at me with a weapon, I'll use Teleport to move behind cover."
What happens? Does this work? If not, please cite the rules ...
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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 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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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.
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Can I Misty Step off of the ethereal plane?
If I am on the ethereal plane and I can see the material plane, can I cast misty step to teleport back?
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Does teleportation trigger the secondary damage of the Booming Blade cantrip?
I've seen these 2 questions, but neither seems to address exactly what I'm wondering:
Does standing up from prone trigger the secondary damage from the Booming Blade cantrip?
Does the Booming Blade ...
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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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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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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 permanent teleportation circle only a destination, and not a point of departure?
The 5th-level spell teleportation circle says:
As you cast the spell, you draw a 10-foot-diameter circle on the ground inscribed with sigils that link your location to a permanent teleportation ...
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Can a character use the Misty Step spell to escape from the Iron Bands of Bilarro?
Can a character escape the Iron Bands of Bilarro (DMG p. 177, listed in the SRD as the Iron Bands of Binding) with the misty step spell?
To clarify, I am not asking if the bands prevent teleportation. ...
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Does teleportation count as movement for a Tabaxi's Feline Agility trait?
A Tabaxi, after using his Feline Agility trait to double his movement speed for a turn, must then move 0 feet on a subsequent turn in order for his trait to recharge.
If the Tabaxi teleports, does it ...
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What spells are available to teleport willing characters?
What are the official spells (published materials only) that can be used by characters to teleport both themselves and others in Fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons?
Which classes can cast them and ...
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If you are falling, can you Misty Step to the ground to avoid damage?
If I fall off a cliff - say, 1000 feet - can I wait (readied action?) until I am near enough to the ground (my understanding is you fall 500 ft/round) then misty step safely to the ground? Or, does ...
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Can a player character use the Misty Step spell to bring another character or creature with them when they teleport?
I am an Eladrin elf and have the ability to use the misty step spell to teleport with my clothing and items.
However, can I grapple a party member (or NPC or other creature) and use the misty step ...
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Can Dimension Door be cast into Leomund's Tiny Hut?
In tonight's session, the party came across a Leomund's Tiny Hut. The party's bard chose to cast Dimension Door into it. This caused a bit of a (friendly) disagreement among the party, and none of us ...
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Can you teleport or Dimension Door out of your clothes?
I've got a warlock with Flee The Scene, a dimension door spell-like ability. He's been attacked by monstrous spiders and has 1 STR left, meaning his 15lbs of armour alone is more than a heavy load.
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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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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.
The ...
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Self only teleportation with characters inside extra-dimensional storage
Can you teleport with a teleport self only spell if you have the other character inside of an extra-dimensional storage in your possession?
For example a Hound Archon tries to teleport with 4 PC's ...
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What happens if a Teleportation Circle destinations moves?
So I want to make a Howl's Moving Castle home base, but I want to be able to have visitors teleport in from a little cottage. My DM and I are wondering if a Teleportation Circle that was made ...
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Can I teleport or planeshift out of the area warded by a Forbiddance spell?
The Forbiddance spell in 5e says (emphasis mine):
For the duration, creatures can't teleport into the area or use portals, such as those created by the gate spell, to enter the area. The spell ...
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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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Do Teleportation spells transfer kinetic energy?
The Short question here is do teleportation spells in Pathfinder/3.5 carry over any kinetic momentum you were subject to before the teleportation. For context, please see this example situation (which ...
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Can you teleport closer to a creature you are Frightened of?
I encountered a situation where I was Frightened of a large creature. By the words of the Frightened condition:
The creature can’t willingly move closer to the source of its fear.
Could you use ...
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Can I Misty Step into Midair?
If I had a flying speed due to being Aarakocra or having fly cast on me, would I be able to use misty step to teleport to midair rather than staying on the ground?
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Does teleporting into the reach of a character with the Polearm Master feat provoke an opportunity attack?
I understand the Player’s Handbook’s ruling on teleportation and opportunity attacks when teleporting out of someone’s reach: Are there any rules relevant to involuntary movement and effects other ...
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Can a character shadowstep, dimension door, or teleport away from sovereign glue?
A character gets stuck to a handled firmly attached to wall with sovereign glue.
Can the character use shadow step to get away from the wall?
Can the character use teleport to get away from the wall?...
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Can a creature with a natural walking speed of 0 ft. get up from being prone?
In a one-shot I recently played the players were fighting a homebrewed Weeping Angel. It has a walking speed of 0 ft. and can teleport 80 ft. on its turn under some conditions. One of the players ...
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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 a Way of Shadow monk use Shadow Step to teleport to the Ethereal Plane if they can see into it?
I am currently playing a Way of Shadow monk, and my character now has a robe of eyes. (I am loving the Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage campaign.)
The description of the robe of eyes says, in part (...
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Can a permanent teleportation circle be dispelled?
Teleportation circle (PHB, pg. 282) can be made permanent, as the spell description says:
You can create a permanent teleportation circle by casting this spell in the same location every day for ...
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What spell to use in conjunction with "Teleport, Greater" to get sufficient information for the teleportation to succeed?
Here is the problem: we want to use the spell Teleport, Greater to reach a place we only have basic info about:
We have a map of our continent (scale 1cm for 500km) and we know the general location ...
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What happens when a small army runs through teleportation circle?
What happens when the number of creatures transported exceeds the space immediately surrounding the destination?
Consider the following situation:
A wizard casts teleportation circle.
Before her ...
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If a prone creature teleports can it stand as part of that move action?
I can't find anything in the PHB about how teleporting affects prone creatures.
Teleporting automatically ends the restrained condition, I wonder if it also can end the prone condition.
Can a prone ...
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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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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 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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Can the generic teleport Action available to some monsters be used to move through transparent, total cover?
Many monsters have access to the Action, teleport.
MM, various statblocks
Teleport. The [creature] magically teleports, along with any
equipment it is wearing or carrying, up to [distance] to an ...
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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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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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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 does Anticipate Teleportation Greater affect yourself?
This is a great one, that comes from here: How does Anticipate Teleportation Greater affect someone walking through a Dimension Door? and Anticipate Teleportation on yourself.
So... you are inside ...
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Ways to relocate/teleport to improve a ranged fighter mobility
The Stealth rules seems to be kind of a sore point in DnD/Pathfinder systems. What I'm getting at requires two separate questions I haven't been able to find an answer to:
I'm mostly a Dex ...
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Does relocation/teleportation while hidden require a new Stealth check?
I've been looking around, and from what I understand, the Stealth rules seems to be kind of a sore point in D&D/Pathfinder systems.
What I'm getting at will require two separate questions (other ...
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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 you cast Teleport to teleport to a ship, even if it's not in a fixed location?
My players spent 2 weeks on a ship and want to use Teleport to get back to it. They have a couple of items that came from the ship like some wood and potions.
Normally I would say these would count ...
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What defenses are there against being summoned by the Gate spell?
The spell Gate allows the caster to summon any creature whose name is known to them.
When you cast this spell, you can speak the name of a specific creature (a pseudonym, title, or nickname doesn'...
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Is teleporting a creature considered forced movement of said creature?
Is teleporting a creature considered to be forced movement of said creature? I have a player interested in a power that adds damage on forced movement and teleport.
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