Plane Shift. Material Component question

[Cespinar]

Title says most of it. How does one go about attaining a rod thats finely tuned to that plane? Particularily if you are in Sigil or some other major planar city. Some guild sell them? Have to go to the plane itself?

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

In Sigil, they're childrens' toys. Anywhere else, I'd guess you'd need Craft (musical instruments) and Knowledge (the Planes) to build one.

Unless someone can think of a more appropriate Craft, or a spell that would allow it?

 

[andargor]

Just had a thought about scribing scrolls. From the SRD:

The creator must have prepared the spell to be scribed (or must know the spell, in the case of a sorcerer or bard) and must provide any material components or focuses the spell requires.

So, when you scribe a scroll of Plane Shift does this mean it will only work for one plane?

And if you find a scroll of Plane Shift, shouldn't it say for which plane it is?

Otherwise, you would only need one tuning fork for whatever plane, scribe a scroll, and shift to any plane you want...

EDIT: Funny, the SRD doesn't list what the focus is in the spell description...

Andargor

 

[Cespinar]

Well that becomes a problem and a blessing. If a scroll of Planeshift is only for one plane that means you can sorta hint where you want the PC's to go, it's a pain because you can only planeshift to that plane so if your outa saftey spells and all you have left is Planeshift to the abyss....well its sorta between a rock and a hard place

 

[Saeviomagy]

Our DM said that we'd need an item from the plane in question. Which meant that we needed to call up a creature from the plane in question and ask it politely to give us a hair. Which meant that we needed to know of a creature from the plane we were to visit. I think we ended up scrying for a relatively normal inhabitant of the plane, casting a communication spell through the scry, and asking it's name.

The hoops we had to go through were pretty cool.