Teleportation Circle - how many?

[NewJeffCT]

A Teleportation Circle is a 5 foot radius circle that teleports the person inside the circle to a designated location via Greater Teleport. Can this function like the standard teleport where everybody joins hands and you can teleport one person/3 levels of the caster? Or, does it function that just one person at a time steps into the circle & teleports? Or, can you squeeze several people into the 5 foot circle at once (like, 4 per grapple)? or, something else?

Thanks

 

[GreyVulpine]

Teleport Circle, lasts for 10 minutes per level of the caster, and it teleports anybody who stands in the area which the caster designates for the spell. So it could teleport as many people as the spell lasts.

 

[NewJeffCT]

Teleport Circle, lasts for 10 minutes per level of the caster, and it teleports anybody who stands in the area which the caster designates for the spell. So it could teleport as many people as the spell lasts.

Thanks - I understand that part of it, but if you wanted to take the whole party in the first round, can you do that?

 

[GreyVulpine]

Considering it takes 10 minutes, or 100 rounds of combat to cast, I don't see you casting it in the thick of battle. If you were able to cast it, I could see you teleporting 4 characters at once, maybe more if you squeezed in characters.

 

[NewJeffCT]

Considering it takes 10 minutes, or 100 rounds of combat to cast, I don't see you casting it in the thick of battle. If you were able to cast it, I could see you teleporting 4 characters at once, maybe more if you squeezed in characters.

It wasn't a thick of battle sort of thing - it's more like the PCs using it to surprise somebody on the other end of the circle.

 

[GreyVulpine]

In that case, I'd say 4 people in the 10x10 square that's designated as the teleport circle area would be the max, if you wanted to teleport in and have all 4 ready to fight in the surprise round. Any more and those people would have to move outwards before they're able to fight effectively.

 

[Salthorae]

Effect: 5-ft.-radius circle that teleports those who activate it

So if you have 4 characters standing in the 10x10 area of the spell and it is activated, it would teleport all 4 I'd say.

 

[NewJeffCT]

In that case, I'd say 4 people in the 10x10 square that's designated as the teleport circle area would be the max, if you wanted to teleport in and have all 4 ready to fight in the surprise round. Any more and those people would have to move outwards before they're able to fight effectively.

Well, with grapple, you can squeeze 4 people into one five foot square in one grapple. I would think you could do more with a 5 foot radius area?

 

[NewJeffCT]

Effect: 5-ft.-radius circle that teleports those who activate it

So if you have 4 characters standing in the 10x10 area of the spell and it is activated, it would teleport all 4 I'd say.

xie xie - I think you can "squeeze" more than one character into a 5x5 square, if needed.

 

[GreyVulpine]

Well, with grapple, you can squeeze 4 people into one five foot square in one grapple. I would think you could do more with a 5 foot radius area?

Outside of combat, you can fit many medium-sized people in a 5x5 foot square, you don't even need to be grappling each other. In a combat situation, the 3.5 D&D rules state that each character can't share a square (unless they're prone/squeezing/grappling) and still fight effectively. So you could fit a dozen (exaggerating) people in a 5ft radius, but once combat starts and you surprise the enemy, those dozen people would have to spend that first round spreading out, negating any advantage you had in the first place.