Spells for other planes.

[sithramir]

My 12th level drow wizard and our group has just discovered a portal. There was a VERY powerful (20th level) skeleton guardian that was preventing us from entering the room and told us to leave or die. Unfortunately we had activated a wall of force or 3 with some other traps and couldn't leave even if we wanted (at least not the entire group). After a long battle and a cheesy winning spell late in the combat we defeated the skeleton and are going to enter the portal which is to some other plane (I forget the name unfortunately) that i'm personally not familiar with. My plan is to teleport to a town nearby and acquire a few things and enter it once we've all finishd resting.

What spells would be useful for while in other planes to grab? I am grabbing true seeing as I don't have that spell and need it but don't know what others might be useful.

Group background:
Feral minotaur ftr 5
Female Elf Duelist type 14
Human Cleric 14 (elementals not undead for turning)
My drow wiz 5/inc 7
Possible add on (think a bard but possibly satyr bard)

basic Spells I have now(at work so dont' know all):
L-bolts/chaint l-bolt
fireball/
haste/mass haste
/disintegrate/
prismatic eye
/energy buffer/
stoneskin/fly/
dispel/greater dispel/cone of cold/
antimagic sphere
simbuls spell matrix
polymorph
polymorph other
enervation
(I have energy subs sonic)
mage armor/dex buff/shield/magic missiles/melf acid arrows
dimension door
teleport
arcane eye/scrying
sending
prot arrows

 

[Shemeska]

Pick up a scroll of Planeshift, you'll learn it later and you'll need it if you go off plane. Prot elements you'll want, especially if you enter and inner plane or one of the lower planes. And analyze portal is vital.

And on top of it, seeming as how your mage is an incantatrix, perhaps he should be more wanting to close the portal than go through it. Especially if it leads to a lower or even elemental plane. *shrug* Depends on your RP approach to that class and its roll in whatever society he's in.

PS. If you happen by chance to go to Sigil while you're on the planes, might there be a way to have you just 'happen' to rough up those two fallen sword archons that work as gate guards for Zadara the Titan in the Lady's Ward? There'd be jink in it for you.... Or barring that, if you'd let a few lightning mephits loose in The Friendly Fiend in the Lower Ward, I'd pay to have that done as well.... *snickers and offers a goodly amount of coin*

 

[Iced Tea]

I suggest that, if you have a copy, that you take a look at the spells in the manual of the planes. they have a lot of spells that deal wiht plane shifting as well as surviving the planes. this could also be a good oportunity for you character to become a planeshifter if that fits you character. however it slows down your spell level progression, but if your party plans to visit the planes a lot, it could offer a lot of new and interesting adventure possibilities. and at tenth level you get to create your own plane that you can plane shift to on will, but you shoudl remember that plane shift does shift you to several d 100 away from your desired point. i think one spell that might be pretty effective if you visit an elemental plane is avoid planar effects

 

[sithramir]

Thanks for the help guys. I must be losing it while at work! I didnt' even think about manual of the planes. I hope i'm not that blind sighted when we're playing saturday or they may lose some arcane support from my idiocy.

Prot from elements is covered by energy buffer and I also use Tirumel's Energy Spheres which I forgot to put in there. Plane shift I'll learn in a level and might be good to bring with but our cleric can already cast one as he's pure human.

As incantatrix i'm playing the idea that this is a real change to learn a bit more about the planes (knowledge planes) and to test my skills against demon on their own turf. I'm kind of used to it in underdark but its a lot different. Plus theres other reasons why we're going in not mentioned like a female drow we're following who entered the gate and who I suspect was involved with the killing of my only friend on the surface a dwarf before I met these foolish adventurer types I use as "meat shields"