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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Can you Drawmij's Instant Summons your Genie's Vessel while you are in it? What happens when you exit?
If you have a level of Genie warlock then your Vessel is "a Tiny object" that "remains in the space you left" when you vanish inside its "extradimensional space".
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Regarding banishment and force cage
Suppose you are fighting an enemy and you manage to banish it to a safe demiplane. Next turn you cast forcecage around where the enemy was. When banishment ends, what happens with the enemy? Here are ...
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Is a spirit summoned with the Find Greater Steed spell affected by the Divine Word spell?
The Divine Word spell description says:
Regardless of its current hit points, a celestial, an elemental, a
fey, or a fiend that fails its save is forced back to its plane of
origin (if it isn't there ...
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What happens to the souls of non-evil creatures when they reach their aligned outer plane?
MToF (pg. 6) says that when most Lawful Evil creatures die, their souls emerge from the River Styx as Lemures:
Most of the evil souls consigned to an afterlife in the Nine Hells become lemures...
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What gods/deities live in the Nine Hells?
In Forgotten Realms lore, what gods or deities make their home in one or more layers of the Nine Hells? (Asking for all editions of the D&D).
I get that each layer is ruled over by a "lord&...
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Is subjective gravity in the Astral Plane still a thing?
Back in AD&D, gravity on the Astral Plane was subjective, meaning that "down" was whatever direction you currently believed it was.
Is this still the rule in D&D 5th edition sources?
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How do I get back to the Material Plane if I get banished to the Feywild as a fairy?
I'm in a campaign, and I'm playing as a fairy cleric. We're level 3, so it's fairly reasonable that an enemy would be able to cast banishment relatively soon.
I don't get any spells that I know of ...
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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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How can you keep a devil from reforming in hell?
The lore in the monster entry for devils says:
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 ...
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What happens when you kill a devil but they can't reform in Hell?
Basically I'm looking for the devil version of a shadow demon. Should I just use the shadow demon statline?
I don't care about the mechanical aspect, I just want to know if I'm overlooking something ...
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Could a creature use a spell like Plane Shift or Word of Recall to escape the Maze spell?
In this scenario my PCs are planning on casting Maze on an evil cleric to take them out of the fight for some time while they handle all the other enemies, then ready actions to attack the cleric when ...
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What happens if the Maze spell is cast in Sigil?
I'm curious about casting the Maze spell in the city of Sigil....
In Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse – Sigil and the Outlands, the "Alterations to Magic" section states:
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Does being in the Shadowfell (5E) in any way affect spells that players cast?
The 5E DMG mentions only that the plane has a hatred of light and lacks color, mentions the Domains of Dread, and then gives an optional rule for despair. Does the Plane of Shadow cause radiant damage ...
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What are known portals to the Abyss in Greyhawk?
In the 2nd Edition Module WGR6, The City of Skulls, the players are to infiltrate Doraaka, Iuz' capital, to rescue a prisoner. They however cannot teleport there because, as the Master Elementalist ...
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What are known portals to the Hells in the Forgotten Realms?
I know that there is (or at least, used to be) one portal in the dungeons under Dragonspear Castle that linked the castle to Avernus, the first level of the Nine Hells. Are there other such fixed ...
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