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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 6106985" data-attributes="member: 23935">Because the desert scene is an expected and appropriate complication of the PC's attempt to reach the city.  The PCs and players knew they'd have a 5-500 mile journey after the plane shift it's the rules for the spell.  you want to cross the desert as a cut scene?  Provide a resource that explicitly gives you that ability or hope the DM decides that this complication is irrelevant and can be hand waved.  If the DM decides not to make that call and the PCs do not offer such a resource, you get to play through the desert.  Go figure.If you provide a resource that may speed the travel but not negate it, the DM will have to judge whether it is sufficient to achieve a hand wave (or even your intent -- like I said a long time ago summoning a mount would signal to me that you want to stay in the desert longer as a player).  There are a lot of reasons to not bypass the complication the DM needs to weigh against a player or table's desire to skip ahead.  Is the group prepared for the environment and the dangers therein?  Is the travel likely to deplete consumable resources?  Are there items of note that at least one PC will be tempted by?  Are there further complications unknown to the group that the group will discover (spells don't recover, hit point recovery is slowed, hit points are ablated every day) as they travel but long before they reach the destination?</blockquote>

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