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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kerbarian" data-source="post: 3013172" data-attributes="member: 40393">What happens to items that you let go of while blinking, if you happen to be ethereal at the time?  Do they stay ethereal, or do they return to being material immediately?  Either way, there are some weird effects.If they immediately return to being material, then you'd have no miss chance when using thrown or projectile weapons while blinking, yet you'd still get the benefits of being an invisible attacker.If they stay ethereal, then you can do some wacky tricks like permanently transport characters and items to the ethereal plane.  Load the rest of the party into a portable hole, start blinking, and spread the portable hole out while you're ethereal (perhaps trying a few times until you get it right).  Let go and step back so it stays ethereal, and then the party crawls out onto the ethereal plane.  If you have two casters who can cast blink, you could get the entire party ethereal that way, then use the same trick at your destination to get back to the material plane.  Or for an even simpler option, just use Blink to stash and retrieve objects on the ethereal plane.</blockquote>