Plane Shifting to the Material

[Jack Simth]

Just out of curiosity, since the spell description doesn't really specify, how nasty do people generally get as DMs in applying that inaccuracy?

I.e. do you just make it "5d100 miles off course on the world's surface, roll 1d12 to pick a clock-face direction"?

If I have a specific campaign map, then basically, although I'd probably be using a 1d4 (N, S, E, W); without a specific campaign map, then I roll for what terrain they land in - Forest, Desert, Lake, Ocean, field, swamp.... whatever I think of at the time.

Or can it be 5d100 miles in any direction - including straight up or down if the dice roll that way?

No. I tend not to play 2nd edition's insta-death on bad teleports....

 

[ThirdWizard]

Once I had the PCs appear by an erupting volcano and they had to avoid the lava flow and get away. Another time I had them appear near the Styx. Good thing they didn't drink from it.