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
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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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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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How can an unwilling Elemental planar ruler be drawn into the Material Plane?
Gate would normally be the answer, but if the planar ruler is unwilling, they would prevent this spell from opening near them:
You conjure a portal linking an unoccupied space you can see within ...
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Do characters suffer fall damage in the Astral Plane?
My character has a Robe of Stars. Our party is currently fighting an Adult Blue Dragon and the DM has a propensity to grab PCs and fly them to 120 ft in the air and drop them. If my character uses ...
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Which planes would be easy to survive for PCs of low levels?
Assuming a party of PCs(Level 1) would be banished to a plane other than the Material Plane, which planes listed in the DMG would be the easy to survive on for those players?
Assuming, of course, '...
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What happens to things taken out of a demiplane after the demiplane expires?
Me and my friends were debating a certain idea. Namely using demiplanes as a place to get resources from (such as fertile soil, organic matter, stone and so on. There was also the mention of metals ...
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I'm worried about nerfing the Players too much by adding an immunity to Radiant Damage to a monster type
In my setting most of the Outer Planes have individually suffered apocalyptic catastrophes.
The Abyss has been, for several decades before the players even see their first demon, beset by chronic ...
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Is there a layer of hell associated with forging or constructs?
I have an idea for a campaign where a particular villain makes a deal with a an archduke of one of hell's layer and that archduke supplies/assists them with evil constructs or helps them build them/...
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Are extradimensional spaces demiplanes?
Spells and items can create extradimensional spaces, for example the bag of holding, and the spells Rope Trick or Mordenkainen's Magnificient Mansion. The spell Demiplane instead explicitly creates a ...
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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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Is the Planar Bubble created by a Planar Shepherd immobile for its duration or does it stay centered on its creator?
The Planar Shepherd prestige class offers an ability at 5th level to temporarily apply the traits of a specific plane (chosen when you first take levels in the class) to the area around you.
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Does a Planar Shepherd's Planar Bubble affect spells cast from wands or scrolls?
The Planar Shepherd prestige class offers an ability at 5th level to temporarily apply the traits of a specific plane (chosen when you first take levels in the class) to the area around you. This ...
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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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When using the Robe of Stars for astral travel to other planes, can I still return to the Material Plane with an action?
The description of the Robe of Stars is a little vague on the astral travel aspect:
While you wear the robe, you can use an action to enter the Astral Plane along with everything you are wearing and ...
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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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Is there a spell for storing items or objects similar to a Find Familiar?
I remember somewhere I watch a spellcaster bamf an item they had in their hand and make it reappear in their hand at will, explaining it's stored in a small plane that only they can access. But I can'...
