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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5201256" data-attributes="member: 4937">Good point.  When I here the term 'portal', I automatically assume something that is close to your type #1, but with different assumptions about how space works.  Not also that all my portals tend to have the properties of your type #3 by default without performing what you call 'a conversion', in that they don't leak except under pressure and are usually designed to withstand typical ambient pressures on both sides of the portal.  For gamist and simulation reasons, a leaky portal must burn itself out in a short period.Your portal type #2 is what I think of when I think of 'teleport trap', and I agree generally with you on how it works.  Generally, I consider teleporters to have one of two modes of operation:1) Anything that they contain completely, they teleport.  The idea is that there is a mystic cylinder of space defined by the effect.  Once you are in that cylinder and the edges of the cylinder are unbroken, the teleport effect occurs.   In this case, you can throw a rope into the space and nothing happens.  You can actually 'disarm' the trap/portal by symbolically cutting it with a rope or other object.  Teleporters of this type are usually designed for transportation, and are often visibly marked by a circle of some sort.  They are easily 'closed' and difficult to activate accidently (especially if you know one is there).  Teleporters of this type in my game would generally not allow saving throws.  'Poof', your gone.2) Anything that touches the effect is teleported.  These are are usually designed as traps, and so often not marked or have hidden triggers.  If the rope (or 10' pole) touches the effect, 'Poof' it disappears.  Because these are more dangerous, I might often allow a saving throw (including an attended object).  If the saving throw was past, you'd feel something trying to pull the object away from you.</blockquote>

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