ChaoticDitz
2014-02-13, 12:17 AM
Basically, I'm looking for ways to keep planar portals/gates open longer against the wishes of their users.
I don't care if this comes through spell, feat, complicated extended technique, or whatever. It only has two prerequisites; it has to work for keeping the thing open (whether by RAI or RAW, not gonna be a stickler about which you use) and it needs to be able to work with a decent enough quickness that it could be a legitimate response in an emergency. A thirty in-game minutes spell chain or just "kill the thing that wants to close the portal" are both rather invalid for what I'm asking, though I guess the first still counts if it just has long pre-prep and the actual execution is quick.
Something where the sequence would go like, BBEG uses Gate for planar travel purpose, runs through and intends to close portal behind him (I don't know the rules about how long a Gate stays open, it's just for example purposes), PC uses Immediate/Readied Standard action to complete trigger or cast spell, forcing the Gate to stay open so the PCs can pursue quickly.
I don't care if this comes through spell, feat, complicated extended technique, or whatever. It only has two prerequisites; it has to work for keeping the thing open (whether by RAI or RAW, not gonna be a stickler about which you use) and it needs to be able to work with a decent enough quickness that it could be a legitimate response in an emergency. A thirty in-game minutes spell chain or just "kill the thing that wants to close the portal" are both rather invalid for what I'm asking, though I guess the first still counts if it just has long pre-prep and the actual execution is quick.
Something where the sequence would go like, BBEG uses Gate for planar travel purpose, runs through and intends to close portal behind him (I don't know the rules about how long a Gate stays open, it's just for example purposes), PC uses Immediate/Readied Standard action to complete trigger or cast spell, forcing the Gate to stay open so the PCs can pursue quickly.