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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 6647899" data-attributes="member: 6779310">The Astral isn't nearly as easily navigated to exit where you want as you appear to be hoping. Your choices are, per the quoth wording, to find an extant portal or to go back along the silver cord. Unlike prior editions, if you enter any portal, your body snaps to you.Anything that cuts the cord essentially kills you. A few monsters were able to cut them in AD&amp;D; &quot;weather&quot; event encounters, too.You appear to be misreading grounded upon prior edition knowledge. The 5E version differs significantly from older editions.In AD&amp;D (1 e or 2 e), you could reenter the plane you departed from... but wouldn't get your body nor generate a new one... you would be an astral projection into the second location.The text is an accurate quote - and in it, the 5e version fairly explicitly allows use of portals back to one's starting place; if the only way back to your starting plane was back along your silver cord, your starting possessions could not be transported to you. But in 5e, if you reenter, whoomp - no more escape back to your body instead of death, because you've got it. But the spell also is worded such that it needs an existing portal (or the ability to make a portal on the go...)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 6647899, member: 6779310"] The Astral isn't nearly as easily navigated to exit where you want as you appear to be hoping. Your choices are, per the quoth wording, to find an extant portal or to go back along the silver cord. Unlike prior editions, if you enter any portal, your body snaps to you. Anything that cuts the cord essentially kills you. A few monsters were able to cut them in AD&D; "weather" event encounters, too. You appear to be misreading grounded upon prior edition knowledge. The 5E version differs significantly from older editions. In AD&D (1 e or 2 e), you could reenter the plane you departed from... but wouldn't get your body nor generate a new one... you would be an astral projection into the second location. The text is an accurate quote - and in it, the 5e version fairly explicitly allows use of portals back to one's starting place; if the only way back to your starting plane was back along your silver cord, your starting possessions could not be transported to you. But in 5e, if you reenter, whoomp - no more escape back to your body instead of death, because you've got it. But the spell also is worded such that it needs an existing portal (or the ability to make a portal on the go...) [/QUOTE]

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