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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mapleaxe" data-source="post: 926049" data-attributes="member: 6084">**My players stay out****Shouit, that means you.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> **Alright, I realized in the middle of a game session the other day that I may have made a mistake.  For purely story-related reasons, I introduced a portable portal to a fairly stable spot in the plane of Limbo, the abode of a powerful magic user who's been barred from returning from the the Material Plane.  The portal takes the form of a book, a treatise on change and chaos.  I introduced the book portal so that one of my characters would be able to consult with the magic-user and, vice-versa, the magic user could use the character as an agent on the Material Plane.  No sooner did the player understand how the portal works, however, and he started coming up with "inventive" uses for it, things such as hiding out in Limbo while the other PCs smuggle the book portal into locations where he can't go--a use I hadn't thought of.Offhand, I have nothing against PCs making inventive use of their resources, but I'd like to try anticipating what they could do with such an object.  What would your characters do with a portable portal to Limbo?</blockquote>