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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 4079208" data-attributes="member: 17691">Rules governing portals appear in both the Forgotten Realms CS and Manual of the Planes (and possibly other sources) but I can't find any mention of the type of action required to open and/or step through a magic portal. I'm looking for an official ruling, but lacking that I'll take a general consensus. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Here are my thoughts on the subject; please correct me if I'm wrong:Some keyed portals only require the presence of a type of object to open them. As such, it would seem that opening the portal could simply be considered a part of moving; walking up to and through the portal with the object in one's possession automatically opens the gate as a free action. Attacks of Opportunity are triggered only as a result of moving as per the RAW.Similarly, if a portal is keyed to open at the sound of a spoken word, and since speaking is normally a free action, couldn't moving through the portal be a move action (or a five foot step if one is adjacent to the portal)?Other portals that require elaborate gestures to be performed would require a move equivalent action to open them, provoking AoOs as for opening a normal door. Moving through the portal is a separate action; accomplished as per the moving rules.Portals that require a spell to be cast to be opened naturally take the amount of time necessary to cast the spell in question; provoking AoOs normally.Thoughts?</blockquote>

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