Secondly, due to the way the evil planar power structures work, you are removing key middle and upper tier people from their seats of power, while leaving a relatively large number of mooks behind without resorting to Gates or portals. If you do find a fiend of that power, it's a pretty safe bet he has more important things to do than be an interplanar Segway.įirstly, transporting 'troops' is a problem as mentioned previously, unless something wide open like Gate or a portal is used, it takes a lot of time from creatures high in the hierarchy to cross planar boundaries, and with a limited number of creatures at a time to boot, scattering them across the world. If your teleport ability is crippled like the balor's, the invasion is effectively impossible because you emerge into a different place each time you shift and can't coordinate forces effectively. That's a pretty generous set of assumptions. You need to use Teleport or something similar to get to the meetup point, then you need to use Plane Shift and Teleport again to get back to where you were bringing troops from.Īssuming you can use both of those at will, your Teleport is actually a Greater Teleport so there's no mishap, your teleport isn't the gimped version that only lets you take yourself and fifty pounds along, you have a CL of 21 for your (Greater) Teleport so you can actually bring seven other creatures with you, all the creatures you're bringing are Medium or smaller, and you can line up the creatures you're bringing so there's no delay in timing, then you can move seven creatures to the Prime Material every twenty-four seconds. The PCs were all pretty pleased with themselves and they began celebrating their victory and splitting up the spoils that they had negotiated from the allied leaders (five percent of the total hoard that the Cult of the Dragon had amassed in order to try to attract Tiamat).While you can transport up to eight people with Plane Shift, it's basically impossible to get where you want to go. By the time Bahamut used Plane Shift to send the wizard back to the plains near the Well of Dragons, the Thayan loyalists had overwhelmed the cult’s red wizard allies and the battle was over before the cultists could even begin the ritual. The cultists were completely unprepared to be assaulted by the platinum dragon and his allies, and they were dispatched during the surprise round before they could even take any offensive actions. After careful scheming with the loyalists from Thay and the metallic dragons, the wizard used Plane Shift to deliver these Cult leaders to Celestia and the palace of Bahamut.

The party’s wizard convinced the cult leader and two of the other speakers that there was a special artifact that could help in summoning Tiamat that he knew about in the Shadowfell, and convinced them to help him retrieve it. The high-level adventurers had successfully infiltrated the Cult of the Dragon for several levels and had gained the trust of the cult leader and some of his powerful allies. The most creative use I have seen of this spell was in the final battle at the Well of Dragons in the Tyranny of Dragons campaign. It can also be a way to get rid of a powerful enemy early in a fight. Perhaps a group of heroes needs to travel to the Astral Plane to consult a deity, or needs to visit one of the elemental planes to pursue an enemy. This is a spell that can come in handy when high-level epic campaigns start spanning planes of existence. In this case the enemy is sent to a random location on the chosen plane, and the banishment is permanent (e.g., it does not wear off after a time and the target must find their own way back to the plane from which the caster banished them). By landing a touch, the caster can effectively banish an enemy to a chosen plane of existence if the target fails a Charisma save. When the spell is used against an enemy, it requires a successful melee touch attack on the enemy.

If used with willing allies, there are no saves or rolls required for the spell to succeed. If the runes for a specific teleportation circle on the destination plane are known, the caster can target that location. The destination is usually a known location, such as a city or landmark on that plane. In the former case, a group of several creatures (the caster and up to 8 willing companions) can link hands in a circle and teleport to a specified plane of existence. Plane Shift can be used with allies or against an enemy.

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