Sound from within a Rope Trick

[Quidam]

Does Rope Trick prevent the sound the party makes from passing beyond the invisible window? Does the party have to be concerned that people below might hear them?

 

[dcollins]

I would assume "no". Outsiders can't see in, presumably they can't listen in either.

 

[Saeviomagy]

The easiest way to handle your average planar boundary (including teleportation circles) is to assume that nothing (energy, matter, anything) will go through it without a direct action from a creature. ie - only items that a creature is carrying, dragging or pushing will pass through.

IOW - cast gate and aim it at the plane of water, and you don't flood the city, however pushing a bucket through and then bringing it back again will result in a bucket full of water.

It just makes spells that do these things easier to handle: they still work for their intended purpose, but unusual tricks like the above are disallowed.

One of the effects of this is that sound won't travel through the boundary - it's a thing, and it's not being carried, dragged or pushed by a character.

 

[Darklone]

Hey, that's boring

 

[robberbaron]

I always thought that the rope trick space was undetectable from outside, including sound,smell, etc. Hence, anyone inside wanting to know what was going on outside had to open the door and have a look/listen.

 

[Li Shenron]

One of the effects of this is that sound won't travel through the boundary - it's a thing, and it's not being carried, dragged or pushed by a character.

Although in some cases (Gate) I'd like to keep it so that characters can at least see what's on the other side...

 

[Derren]

I don't see why sound would be blocked.

The entrance is just invisible, thats all.

 

[Scion]

I see no reason to block sound or smell from crossing the boundary. No need to make a strong spell into something even stronger Plus, no reason from the spell description to assume they dont cross.. it specifically makes it invisible and disallows spells from crossing, but it is still a whole between the two dimensions more or less.

 

[mosesjones]

IOW - cast gate and aim it at the plane of water, and you don't flood the city, however pushing a bucket through and then bringing it back again will result in a bucket full of water.

What if I put a straw/hose in gate. Will the water flow out then? Can I blow bubbles into the Elemental Plane of Water?


Seriously though, if I remember my physics, sound is rapid changes in air pressure and is pushed by some creature (at least voices).

 

[Lamoni]

Seriously though, if I remember my physics, sound is rapid changes in air pressure and is pushed by some creature (at least voices).

If I remember my Physics, we didn't study anything that dealt with crossing planes (at least not D&D planes) or dimensions.

On the other hand, sound is reflected back when it hits a medium with a different conductivity. When sound hits water, glass, or whatever, some sound passes through while much of the sound is reflected back. The larger the difference is between the two substances, the more sound is reflected and less passes through.

It all depends on what side you are looking at it from. From the viewpoint of the people inside the rope trick space, the air inside is quite similar to the air outside. From an outside viewpoint, all the air inside is taking up absolutely no space... and is therefore infinitely dense as compared to the material plane and therefore any sound would be reflected back 100% with none passing through.

The more I think about it to try and understand it, the more I can't understand it. I like to think that no sound would pass through. Everything on the other side is a part of its own dimension or plane and cannot interact with anything on another plane. The window is only for transportation... and isn't really much of a window, but like a transporter pad.