Are there any planar traits that restrict Teleport?

[Ry]

I was wondering if there were any planar traits that would restrict teleporting for distances greater than a mile but otherwise leave low-level magic (1st-5th level spells) as it is.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

It's nothing planar, but in the Realms, there's some sort of "Underdark Radiation" called Faerzress which makes long-distance teleporting quite tricky. If it goes beyond a certain distance (I think it's a mile), you have to make a spellcraft check or the teleport's a mishap (even a greater teleport)

You can easily turn that into a planar trait.

 

[Ry]

Is that in the core realms book?

 

[werk]

I'd think the trait 'divinely morphic' would cover it. It means deities can control or shape the plane's traits, which includes how magic works.

 

[Edheldur]

I was wondering if there were any planar traits that would restrict teleporting for distances greater than a mile but otherwise leave low-level magic (1st-5th level spells) as it is.

Yep, the "Limited Magic" trait. IE: Any [Teleport] spell 6th level or higher doesn't work.

Limited Magic

Planes with this trait permit only the use of spells and spell-like abilities that meet particular qualifications.

Magic can be limited to effects from certain schools or subschools, to effects with certain descriptors, or to effects of a certain level (or any combination of these qualities). Spells and spell-like abilities that don’t meet the qualifications simply don’t work.

 

[Bad Paper]

Yes, the limited magic planar trait works. Also, two other things come to mind:

• The Outlands, or Concordant Opposition, or whatever the heck they call it these days, limits high-level magic the closer you get to the center of the plane. The party in my campaign plane shifted there and wound up a few hundred miles off from their destination, and couldn't teleport out. Walking sucks.
• Divine Will. e.g. Lolth has barred all teleportation in the Demonweb, with a few specific exceptions.

 

[Ry]

Great - I'll just use "Limited Magic: No spell which would cause the caster to travel more than 1 mile functions on this plane. Also, no spell of 6th level or higher can be cast by a creature without a Divine Rank of 0 or higher."

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Is that in the core realms book?

I think it's in Underdark. But it's not as if there was 20 pages of info about it.