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Teleportation alternatives

Started by Sosthenes, May 24, 2007, 07:18:44 AM

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Sosthenes

#15
May 28, 2007, 12:54:21 PM
Well, if I did change it, it would be for everyone. I'm not averse to retconning that this has always been this way, I just don't want to install moongates out of the blue ;)

Hmm, Faerun's magic is based on the Weave, right? I might as well takes this a little more literally. Which would give the Shadow Weave users some neat alternate pathways... The weave is a messy graph, at junctions it's possible to build portals. With the new "teleport" spell, you can possibly travel to every node. Maybe I'll add "brittle" pathways and some cyberpunk-like node-tracing spells.

Hmm, wonder whether I'll truly retcon this to the distant path or just blame it on the time of troubles ;)
 

Malleus Arianorum

#16
May 29, 2007, 05:54:42 AM
Here's how I'd retcon it.

Teleporting actualy works thanks to a magical highway, one of the many functions of the weave. It's so fast, reliable and magical you'd hardly know it's there. But there are some places where the magical highway isn't so easy to traverse such as.... your new dungeon.

Once you've established that teleporting ability it part of the weave, it's trivial to introduce a new threat that unravels the teleporting property or makes it work in new and mysterious ways.

On the other hand, you could handwave a bunch of anti-teleporting magic protecting the whole complex -- the one spot you can teleport to is an achilies heel.
That\'s pretty much how post modernism works. Keep dismissing details until there is nothing left, and then declare that it meant nothing all along. --John Morrow
 
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jeff37923

#17
May 29, 2007, 06:27:26 AM
A good trick is the use of Genesis (Level 9, in SRD under Epic Spells) to create multiple demiplanes where the action is supposed to happen. Teleport cannot be used to gain entrance or exit to a demiplane and Scrying is also reduced in effectiveness by having to cross planes.

I know its a mechanical solution being suggested, but as part of the background story of a world the demiplane is underused.
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Sosthenes

#18
May 29, 2007, 06:44:13 AM
this might be relevant, too ;)
 
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