#Dnd 5e teleport and scry tv

Also known as scry-and-die, this tactic can devastate PCs, NPCs, the DM, the players, and the campaign. Then, if Group B is vulnerable and accessible, Group A prepares for battle and uses a teleportation effect to mount a surprise attack against Group B. The only place you could jump to is somewhere that is within 30ft of you.In the answer below I use the phrase teleportation ambush to refer to the following tactic: Group A uses a scrying effect to determine Group B's status and location. So if the scry is on the other plane of a existence, or even following someone that is 50ft to your right. If a scrying orb is located further than 30ft from you you cannot misty step through it. That would imply you could cast it on other things. Not use the mirror to look behind you 25ft.Īnd yeah it doesn't have a range of 30ft because the spell would make 0 sense if it had a range of more than self. So you literally look over your shoulder and warp 25ft. Because in D&D your sight for spells like Misty step is not one directional. ThanksĪlso just pointing out in D&D this argument doesn't really work out the way you imagine it. arcane gate for example says the portal is opaque, but that isn't said for gate ) In a similar case to the above where the item you are looking through is a portal, you could misty step through, because you could also move 25 feet and be at the location. Now, its different if the thing you are looking through is an actual portal, such as one created by demiplane or gate (the last one is only if the DM rules you can see through the portal. Being able to see something through a scry doesn't mean you are any closer to it.

#Dnd 5e teleport and scry tv

If I am watching TV of a live event located 100 miles away, and I am 5 feet from my TV and the event is 20 feet from the camera, do you think I can move 25 feet and be at the event? I can't move through the portal so of course not, i'm still 100 miles away. Your point of view is extremely unreasonable as scrying is not a portal. While i was writing it I understood that my point of view is not perfectly reasonable but for me it is more to what your gm says Like if you look through a mirror for scrying and you are standing 5ft from it you can teleport into the 25 ft of land that you can see in that mirror Instead it teleports you in an unoccupied space that you can see which is in maximum of 30 ft of you. I would argue dew to the fact that misty step doesn’t have a range of 30 ft. Misty step is also teleport but as DM I would personally allow it to transport to a location through a portal within 30' but would not allow it to transport a creature between planes without a pre-existing local connection between the planes. Teleport explicitly restricts transport to the same plane of existence. Compare misty step to the much more powerful teleport spell. In my opinion, misty step could make use of existing portals but it won't create one to allow you to teleport across planes. On the other hand, if you were within 30' of a gate or portal to that plane where you could pass through then I likely would allow misty step to work since if there were no obstructions in the way, you could walk to the location and pass through to the other plane. If your scrying device was on another plane of existence and there was no portal for you to pass through then I, personally, would rule that you can't use misty step to travel to a different plane.

However, you could probably use a scrying device to look at a room on the other side of a 10' thick wall with no doors and then use misty step to enter that room because it is within 30', on the same plane and a location that you can see due to the use of the scrying device. So using a scrying device to see a location beyond 30' from your current location would not allow you to misty step there. Any location on another plane is not within 30' unless the DM has created a portal or allowed one to be created which might allow a creature to expend 30' of movement to get to that location (or the DM chooses to use other mechanisms to determine range). This means that two locations in different planes, even if occupying the same spot in 3D (like ethereal or astral vs prime material), those points are 'infinitely far apart' because it is not possible to get from one to the other. Without the use of other spells like planeshift or some sort of portal it is not possible to get to a location in another plane of existence.

In general, distances between planes are considered infinitely far apart for the purposes of spell range. Monstrous Compendium Vol 3: Minecraft Creatures