Gate spells and PC's

[Cloudgatherer]

Maybe a powerful being gave the 16th level wizard a scroll and said, "Call me if you need some help". Now he has these lousy adventurers when he was expecting a Deva.

Well, the wizard was 19th level, cast the spell himself, and it was disrupted by a "custom counterspell". The event I described served as the basis for a year-long game that recently ended (at its conclusion). The party witnessed a battle they would end up recalling several times over the course of their adventures. All the PCs were "outsiders", meaning they came from a different prime than the one they were gated to. It allowed me to continue an ongoing game with the same characters (if the players wanted) or bring in new characters.

 

[Jondor_Battlehammer]

Well, "Outsider" is a subjective term. An Elf would be an outsider on the elemental plane of air. Also, certain spells, I THINK its word of law/chaos, automaticly sends outsiders back to their plane of existance. It states, to my recolection, that it works on PC's that are not on their home plane.

 

[James McMurray]

Actually, Outsider is not a subjective term in the D&D language. It means a creature whose type is listed as "Outsider." However, the Gate spell itself does not specifically require the summoning of outsiders. Can anyone supply a quote (or even just a page number) from a source that backs up the assertion that only outsiders can be called or summoned? I was planning on having something like this happen in my campaign. In fact, my sorcerer has already gated in a rogue known to the party when we needed a lock opened.

Thanks!

 

[Jack Haggerty]

Actually, Outsider is not a subjective term in the D&D language. It means a creature whose type is listed as "Outsider." However, the Gate spell itself does not specifically require the summoning of outsiders. Can anyone supply a quote (or even just a page number) from a source that backs up the assertion that only outsiders can be called or summoned? I was planning on having something like this happen in my campaign. In fact, my sorcerer has already gated in a rogue known to the party when we needed a lock opened.

Thanks!

Ooops. You're right. My mistake. I was under the imrpession it could only call Outsiders.

The spell can be found here... http://opengamingfoundation.org/srd/srdspellsg.html