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 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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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 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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How can I prevent my players from teleporting out to escape any dungeon?
My high-level party now has 2 casters able to cast teleport. They can now run into any dungeon and just escape freely when things get dangerous. Forbiddance does not prevent you from teleporting out ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 a character use teleport as a weapon?
The player characters are fighting a large creature, let's say dragon sized, in a large area like the town's market square. A player decides he wants his character to point at a boulder (large but ...
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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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Can you Plane Shift to a specific layer of the Nine Hells?
The description of the plane shift spell (PHB, pg. 266) says:
You and up to eight willing creatures who link hands in a circle are transported to a different plane of existence. You can specify a ...
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Can a Way of Shadow monk use Shadow Step to teleport from a cape's shadow?
For quick context, in a story about a group with special powers, there is a human with shadow-based magic, including teleporting between shadows. He uses this in the following escape-trick:
He swirls ...
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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 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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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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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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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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Can I use Teleportation Circle with a random sigil sequence, hoping it leads somewhere?
Suppose a wizard casts Teleportation Circle (or Plane Shift) and writes down a sigil sequence not corresponding to any circle the wizard knows. We're not concerned with why they would do this; maybe ...
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Is there any way to throw your weapon and then teleport to its position?
I'm building a bladesinger who dual-wields scimitars. I'm taking 3 levels in Eldritch Knight for the ability to throw them and teleport them back.
Is there any race, feat, enchantment, anything, ...
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How can I prevent teleportation in 4e?
In our gaming group, our storyteller loves to use creatures with teleportation abilities. This is starting to get frustrating since as soon as a creature is bloodied, it teleports away with its next ...
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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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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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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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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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Why the bad guys don't just teleport somewhere drop a bomb and teleport back?
This question could be also How to avoid teleport/drop bomb/teleport back attacks? or How to avoid the use of Dimensional Shamblers as bomb carriers?
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Recently my group of players thought ...
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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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Is a teleportation circle usable as a destination during the one-year setup period?
In addition to teleporting to an existing circle, the teleportation circle spell allows one to "create a permanent teleportation circle by casting this spell in the same location every day for one ...
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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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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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What happens when a grabbed target of Avalanche Stomp is teleported?
Avalanche Stomp is a power of the Stone Titan (all quotes are from the DDI Compendium):
Close burst 3; +21 vs Fortitude; 3d10+7 damage, and the target is grabbed by earth and stone. The stone titan ...
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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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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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Would the Dimension Door spell trigger or bypass the Mental Prison spell?
After failing the saving throw for mental prison, the target is subjected, among other things, to this:
If the target is moved out of the illusion, makes a melee attack
through it, or reaches any ...
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Can monsters with a teleport ability grab enemies to teleport them both?
Some monsters have an Action/Legendary Action that allows them to teleport 120 feet. Using the Balor as an example:
Teleport. The balor magically teleports, along with any equipment it
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How can I summon a willing target from elsewhere?
I am the leader of my own crew of high-level characters. We have Necromancers, Brawlers, Assassins, Mind-Readers, etc. Because the world is always about to come to an end, they mostly wander in pairs ...
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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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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 teleport a monster vertically up and thus damage them when they fall?
Can you teleport a monster vertically up and thus do them the D10 per 10' falling damage?
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Can I learn sigil sequences for teleportation circles before learning a spell that can use them?
Suppose I plan to learn the teleportation circle spell, or another spell that can use teleportation circles, some time in the future, but I don't currently know any such spell (or have one in my ...
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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 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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Can a Horizon Walker ranger use the Distant Strike feature to teleport out of the Forcecage spell?
Distant Strike is a Horizon Walker ranger feature which states (XGtE, p. 43):
At 11th level, you gain the ability to pass between the planes in a
blink of an eye. When you use the Attack action, ...
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Teleporting an enemy away to their doom using Gate
I was the DM for a group of guys for whom I directed Pathfinder's Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path. Everything went fine, the players saved the world and all of that wonderful stuff (which is ...
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Can a Way of Shadow Monk use Shadow Step to teleport to a dark ceiling and then body slam another creature?
The Way of Shadow monk's Shadow Step feature says you can teleport up to 60 feet to an empty space from one dimly lit or dark space to another. Does that include the ceiling of a dungeon?
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Can I teleport to a location that's been destroyed?
I own a tavern on a different side of the land I'm on and I have things from it to make sure I go back with no flaws. There is a war raging across all the land so it appears to have been destroyed. ...
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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 blind creature teleport another?
Our wizard has the feat Twist the Arcane Fabric, which lets you teleport an ally out of an area of effect spell.
In a recent battle the wizard was blinded, and so ...
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Must a Witch leave their Familiar behind when using Dimension Door?
Dimension Door says:
Opening a door that bypasses normal space, you instantly transport yourself and any items you're wearing and holding from your current space to a clear space within range you can ...
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