D&D 5E If you use thunderstep but teleport less than 10 feet do you take damage?

[Lyxen]

Thanks for your support!

You're very welcome.

Yeah, I do actually like how 5e is kinder on the PCs than previous editions (esp 3e, which I found absolutely brutal); I just don't go as far as Crawford generally does.

The problem with 3e is that it was very technical and incited some people to think that being a "better player" meant better using the rules to one's advantage, which in turn created a kind of arrogance about some people thinking that they were "better" than others because they played harsher games where you had to be more "clever" to survive. While there is nothing inherently wrong about playing the way, it is inherently wrong to think that you are better for playing it that way. Fortunately, 5e set it right globally, and specifically in the introduction of the PH. There are no better players and there are not idiots, just people playing the game, hopefully together in the right spirit of cooperation.

 

[Lyxen]

Nope. Teleportation is instantaneous.

So is the damage, as per the description of the spell. Prove that one is more "instantaneous" than the other, I'll be waiting.

 

[commandercrud]

First sentence, "you teleport." Second sentence, "after...". Once instantaneous action occurs after the other. It's really quite simple and clear.

 

[Lyxen]

First sentence, "you teleport." Second sentence, "after...".

Tsss tsss tss, your partial quoting here is revealing, it says: "Immediately after you disappear" not after you teleport.

And you have failed to prove that teleportation is instantaneous (I'm waiting for a rule), it just means that you go from one place to another. The spell CLEARLY makes a difference between the disappearance and the reappearance.

Once instantaneous action occurs after the other. It's really quite simple and clear.

Nope, there are three instantaneous actions, disappearance, damage and reappearance. prove me wrong, and without forgetting words of the spell.

 

[commandercrud]

Definition of TELEPORTATION

the act or process of moving an object or person by psychokinesis; instantaneous travel between two locations without crossing the intervening space… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Definition of TELEPORTATION

the act or process of moving an object or person by psychokinesis; instantaneous travel between two locations without crossing the intervening space… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

Words have multiple definitions, that one is not a D&D rule.

 

[commandercrud]

Words have multiple definitions, that one is not a D&D rule.

95% of Crawfords tweets on rule clarifications are simply explaining English grammar to people.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

95% of Crawfords tweets on rule clarifications are simply explaining English grammar to people.

Definitions are not grammar.

 

[commandercrud]

Definitions are not grammar.

95% of Crawfords tweets on rule clarifications are simply explaining English language to people. Better? This is exactly what I'm talking about.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

95% of Crawfords tweets on rule clarifications are simply explaining English language to people. Better? This is exactly what I'm talking about.

So, in the absence of an official 5e definition of a fictional concept you want to refer to the real world?!

For a start, in the real world, there is not such thing as "instantaneous".

So lets look at fiction. The most well known example is Star Trek. Which is definitely not instantaneous. There are many examples of things happening in transit, and characters being stored in "pattern buffers". For years, on occasion. In Star Trek you could certainly dematerialise someone before an explosion, then rematerialize them in the same spot after it.

There are many other examples in fiction of non-instantaneous teleportation. Take the teleport dodge, a superhero staple. The character disappears to evade an attack, then reappears in the same spot.