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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6964757" data-attributes="member: 12731">The spell isn't absolutely clear, but my reading is that it doesn't say the monster must try to escape, or that it can't do other things*. So my answer is yes. Although if I was Mazed by an unexpectedly powerful group of do-gooders, my immediate concern would be escape, to fight on another day, on my own terms <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />For example: the Plane Shift spell should work to both escape the maze and get away from the heroes.Zapp*) Once Maze explicitly forced its victims to waste their time wandering the maze, but that was many editions ago. Here's a fairly exhaustive summary of how the Maze spell has evolved during the editions (up until Pathfinder).<a href="http://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/70361/can-a-creature-in-a-maze-spell-do-anything-besides-try-to-escape" target="_blank">http://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/70361/can-a-creature-in-a-maze-spell-do-anything-besides-try-to-escape</a>It IS possible to read the spell's language as prescriptive. That is, it IS possible to read it to mean that no, you can't leave unless you "escape", and the only escape is by making the Int save. I have chosen not to interpret the spell this way, because 5E is generally written in natural language - it would feel uncharacteristic of the rules language to say "until you escape" and not have that mean "by any means you associate with an escape" rather than "in this highly specific way we're about to define".Or, in other words, if the spell wanted to trap you there with only one way out (apart from sitting out the duration) I would have expected it to make this much more clear.</blockquote>

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