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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FoxWander" data-source="post: 4892784" data-attributes="member: 1356">Ok, so apparently in my mind I thought saying that your could chose where the portal goes would also imply that you could chose EXACTLY where it goes- as in, you don't pop up in some random destination but rather exactly where you want to pop up.  Going back and reading my original post I see it implies nothing of the sort.  I guess I got too hung up on clarifying what you could bring to clarify where you could go.  Sorry, my bad.  I certainly meant to say that, cause even I wouldn't be too keen on jumping thru a portal to my dream world if it goes to a completely random spot there.  Heck, most worlds have too much ocean to risk that- or too much underdark- or too much open air above them!  ("Woohoo! Paradise here I come! Oh no! AAAAAAAaaaaaaahhhhhh!"  SPLAT!)Anyhoo- so yeah, you'll pop up exactly where you want to if that changes anybody's answer.  I've added an edit to my original post.SOOO, given that new information and to answer my own post... I would first get one of those e-ink ebook readers that excepts pdfs (with some kind of solar recharger) so I could take ALL my electronic gaming books with me. I'd also take physical copies of some of the more vital gaming books, such as, the forgotten realms atlas (Pretty much every secret place and hidden vault in Faerun, with maps!), any maps I might need as well as the setting books for those worlds especially books with lots of good pictures, and a decent selection of modules that my gaming group HASN'T gone thru (since I'd be going to OUR versions of these worlds those dungeons should still be unspoiled- once you see the rest of my plan, you'll realize that raiding said dungeons should be fairly low risk.)Then I would take advantage of my perfect get-away portal to make a final "shopping trip" thru my local Sportsman's Warehouse for all the guns, ammo, survival and camping gear I would need- the most important of which would be... a shovel.  Why a shovel?  Because my portal destination would be Greyhawk- specifically the Greyhawk I played in with my friends when we first started playing 2ed D&D- and more specifically yet, the gravesite of my character Morito Shin, a bushi/ninja character I had who got well and thoroughly killed during a random encounter while traveling with my group who could not raise him but were sentimental enough to bury him with his weapons and armor.  None of the remaining party could use or wear his weapons/armor and they didn't feel right selling them for their own profit.  It didn't keep them from stripping him of the magic items I had acquired while adventuring with them however (such as the ring of regeneration they didn't know I had which, obviously, would have brought me back to life! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/rant.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rant:" title="Rant    :rant:" data-shortname=":rant:" />) but they did leave the things that didn't look valuable or that they didn't know were magical.  Most importantly (for portal traveling me) they left the portable hole which they thought was simply a cloth belt I wore.  While the hole itself is quite an awesome item to have, this one happened to contain a mirror of mental prowess which would allow me to scry other worlds (know you see why I wanted books with lots of pictures) and [fanfare please] travel to them. So now I could go world hopping and set myself up quite well! A hop to the Star Trek universe could get me a small space ship (like a runabout) for a mobile base of operations and a phaser rifle to make make dungeon crawling much easier.  Not to mention all the high tech goodies I could handle.  And how about a trip to the Star Wars universe for a suit of bounty hunter armor and a few droid henchmen.  As well as even more high tech goodies.  Did I mention dungeon cleansing earlier?  I'll take thermal detonators for $1000, Alex. BA-BOOM! The possibilities are endless!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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