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Message: <blockquote data-quote="plisnithus8" data-source="post: 8588984" data-attributes="member: 6870553">Other fiction or other game systems may have other rules for things; I don’t think they apply in 5e RAW in this case. For instance, Star Trek teleportation has been mentioned a few times as taking time. To be fair n Star Trek they are Transporters that “teleport” by transforming matter into energy and then moving the particles rapidly. In 5e, teleport causes something to disappear and reappear at a certain location; the intricacies of modern science are mostly ignored.Teleport happens instantly. The game uses plain language — the common definition of “instantly” is immediately or without a gap in time. The boom happens after the disappearance. The first sentence of the spell’s description says the caster teleports to a different location. Then it says immediately after the disappearance the boom happens. The order of the sentences and the use of the word after help clarify what happens. Fabricating a gap in time that has no defined duration and therefore either a  vague “t-space” location or the addition of unexplained chronological magic seems to add powers and complexity and confusion that the spell doesn’t even seem to hint at. There are demi-planes and time spells, but neither is mentioned in the spell description.If a DM wants to interpret the spell differently, the rules allow for that. But that doesn’t make  that ruling RAW; it amends those rules. Ruling that the caster takes damage is not punishing a player; it’s the most basic (non-complicated) understanding of the spell’s description. If the player doesn’t realize they will be a part of “each creature” in range taking damage, the DM probably should warn them because their PC has likely had more experience with the spell. I don’t see the cost/benefit aspects of the spell informing this interpretation. It’s dangerous just like a fireball.</blockquote>

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