D&D General How does spell banished work

[wicked cool]

Can’t fit in title but what happens to a creature banished to another plane and what happens to a creature that’s native to that plane

Can a say a 20th level wizard cast a spell and come right back?

If you banish a creature next to a portal that connects the 2 areas can the creature just cross back?

If there’s 2 spellcasters that cast banish a on say 2 hezrou are they ported to the same area?

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

There are no rules at all for exactly where on their native plane a banished creature ends up, so if it matters the DM will have to decide.

We do know that only creatures banished from their native plane to a pocket dimension are incapacitated, so creatures banished to their native plane can presumably act normally, including using plane traveling magic to go back to where they were banished from.

 

[aco175]

Some might depend on what edition you are talking about. Most of your questions are DM dependent though.

the new 5.5e rules are below.

It says you are incapacitated for the minute before you come back. If you are one of the special types listed you do not come back. If concentration breaks, I'm guessing the spell ends and you all come back.

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

We played the Elturel campaign where you end up in Hell or wherever and I kept thinking, “I can save people by banishing them back to the material plane.”

But then I thought, “well, that could banish them to the top of an icy mountain or the bottom of the sea, or deep underground in the underdark so I’m not really saving them.”

 

[aco175]

We played the Elturel campaign where you end up in Hell or wherever and I kept thinking, “I can save people by banishing them back to the material plane.”

But then I thought, “well, that could banish them to the top of an icy mountain or the bottom of the sea, or deep underground in the underdark so I’m not really saving them.”

Sounds like an option people would try. I looked for a chart thinking someone would have made one to see how bad it would be randomly coming back to your plane. Might be a cool campaign getting banished back to the other side of the world and need to get home.

I could not find a chart, but did find a meme.