D&D 5E Never considered banning a spell before: Portho's Portal from BoET

[GMMichael]

How about a limit that you have to have been to the destination spot within the last week?

That's a reasonable nerf. I'm thinking that the spell could use side effects too. E.g. extraplanar creatures have also been known to exit either side of the portal, though they didn't actually enter a portal. So something is happening between the two portals . . .

 

[Stalker0]

This actually makes the spell even better in some ways because if you can get the rogue to sneak into a spot and hide a (permanently invisible?) key there, you can teleport in: vs. having to have the cleric stomp around to that place in person. But at least it sets a physical object dependency vs. just having to have been to a place any time in your life, and in theory someone could take the key and throw it into the ocean or some place that makes casting the spell very bad, lol.

Thank you all for these thoughts though, I love all these ideas!

so not quite. I noted that attunement like condition. the idea was the caster literally has to put the somewhere, stand over it and cast a ritual to "attune" the key to that spot. So you can't offload the sneaking, you want to put a key somewhere, you need to be there for an hour casting big magic.

if you can do that in a king's castle without getting caught, than more power to you!

 

[evilbob]

I would make it adventure specific. That particular dungeon has ancient statues that channel conjugation magic and make that kind of spell possible.

Totally - although at that point, it's really more of a magic item than a spell.

 

[bedir than]

This spell only seems OP if you think there are 100s or maybe even 100000s of high level wizards wandering the world.

If you have like three, it's not a big deal

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

This is why I generally don't bother with third-party stuff.

Is this any more problematic than Silvery Barbs?

This is clearly intended as a spell that changes what Midgard is like (it comes from a Midgard sourcebook) versus the baseline.

I'd put the Kobolds' stuff up against WotC's any day of the week.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm otherwise unfamiliar with this publishing house.

They're former WotC folks. They wrote the first two WotC adventures for 5E and are known for their excellent monster books.