Feystep

[Piratecat]

Sheesh. Keeping an eladrin captive would be easy.

Just poke out his eyes! It's not like it's hard; all you need is a spoon!

Or you can tie a bag over his head.

Although a spoon is more traditional, I suppose.

 

[Surgoshan]

If a spoon is good enough for the Sheriff of Nottingham, it's good enough for me.

 

[Ydars]

If people can really use their powers bound and gagged; which I think people are inferring based upon the fact that the rules are not clear on this, then prisoners will just be drugged all the time so that they are unconcious! Try using your Fey Step when it looks like there are 4 doors instead of just the one!

 

[Sitara]

Yeah feystep, while cool, does have issues. I mean the eladrin will be able to teleport out of most jails/prisons, unless if he is locked in a lightless dungeon. A pc with thievery can also try to pick the lock, using improvisional tools.

On the bright side, I am looking forward to theeladrinpc in my group using teleport to get out of the prison I plan to put them in!

 

[Baron Opal]

Bear with me, this is vague.

I read a sci-fi book a long time ago, and it was written even longer ago, about how society changed when humans learned to teleport. No one really knows how it happened, probably some evolutionary thing. But, with focus and concentration, you could teleport yourself and whatever you could carry. There was a definite distance limit depending on talent and training. The best were Class M, they could teleport 1000 miles, give or take.

As you can imagine, prisons were a bit difficult. One of the things that you needed to know is where you were. Otherwise, you could "blue jaunt" and simply disappear never to be seen again. Much the same thing happened to people who tried to teleport too far beyond their abilities. Prisons were all solitary confinement and you were drugged and brought to your cell unconsious so that you didn't know where you were.

If there are means of boosting the range of feystep, this could be a useful book to read. Unfortunately it has been a long time since I knew the title or author.

 

[Anax]

Oubliette. Preferably with the trapdoor 30' above the floor.

 

[mach1.9pants]

Oubliette. Preferably with the trapdoor 30' above the floor.

That is it! And +1 for using the awesome word Oubliette. Loved it since I first heard it in Labyrinth

 

[jadrax]

If there are means of boosting the range of feystep, this could be a useful book to read. Unfortunately it has been a long time since I knew the title or author.

I suspect 'The Stars My Destination' by Alfred Bester

 

[Yeovil Andy]

I had the party captured in Keep on the Shadowfell. We had an Eladrin Rogue with us and I ruled that the rope binding his hands would remain on when he fey stepped (after all his clothes stay on him so that made sense). Luckily for him, he'd managed to hide away a dagger, cut the ropes of himself and the paladin.

He teleported over to the pile of weapons that the bad guys had collected, threw the paladin his sword and the fight was back on.

 

[Lurks-no-More]

I suspect 'The Stars My Destination' by Alfred Bester

It's definitely that book; and well worth a reading!

As others have said, all you have to do to keep an eladrin imprisoned is to blindfold them, or put them in an oubliette, or in a lightless cell so that they can't see where they're going.

I think that most powers require you to see what you're doing, as well. I've only leafed through the books, but I really doubt you're supposed to be able to use your powers indiscriminately if you're bound, gagged and blindfolded...