D&D 5E Using the Ethereal Plane to travel around the Material Plane

[SkidAce]

You can see and hear the plane you originated from, but everything there looks gray, and you can’t see anything more than 60 feet away.

Yeah, would be awful hard to travel cross country with etherealness. Walk through the castle wall, sure...

Navigate and cross the mountains of doom, 60' at a time? Not so much. (yeah, could follow a road I suppose, or a river, just saying its not as easy as you would think)

 

[neogod22]

Yeah, would be awful hard to travel cross country with etherealness. Walk through the castle wall, sure...

Navigate and cross the mountains of doom, 60' at a time? Not so much. (yeah, could follow a road I suppose, or a river, just saying its not as easy as you would think)

60ft is the same radius as dark vision for most races, so it's like walking in the dark. Sure you don't have landmarks, but you can see far enough to not walk off a cliff, unless you're running .

 

[Li Shenron]

Can creatures that have the ability to enter the Ethereal Plane re-enter the Material Plane at another point, perhaps using the Ethereal to travel faster?

The Etherealness spell specifically says you come back at the point that you left, but what about something like a succubus that simply can move between the planes at will? Could she use her Ethereal ability to move unnoticed from one point on the Material Plane to another?

Sure!

I don't remember the exact details on the 5e version of the ethereal plane. As a matter of fact, I am not even sure how much of the way we used to handle the ethereal plane in previous editions was canon and how much was our own stuff... but in general, we've always ruled so that distances and directions on the ethereal plane are exactly the same as in the material plane. So you can travel faster only in the sense that you can pass through obstacles such as walls, but not in the sense that you can reach a destination through a shorter distance (which is instead how I used to handle the plane of shadows).

 

[SkidAce]

60ft is the same radius as dark vision for most races, so it's like walking in the dark. Sure you don't have landmarks, but you can see far enough to not walk off a cliff, unless you're running .

Entirely true.

I was mainly trying to speak of land navigation being difficult in 60' segments. Its very easy to get off course.

When I learned/taught land nav in the military, besides map and compass, landmarks were very valuable.

You may be surprised to find out how hard it is to walk in a straight line through brush at night.

 

[neogod22]

Entirely true.

I was mainly trying to speak of land navigation being difficult in 60' segments. Its very easy to get off course.

When I learned/taught land nav in the military, besides map and compass, landmarks were very valuable.

You may be surprised to find out how hard it is to walk in a straight line through brush at night.

Actually I do know, I was in the military too. Which is why I posted about how it's impossible to navigate without a guide or someone who can see in multiple planes in a previous post.