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Thread: Gate Questions
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2009-10-30, 01:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Gate Questions
If you open a Gate leading to a plane with a different atmosphere, do you need to worry about it spilling through? For example if you opened a plane into the elemental plane of water would a torrent of water burst out? Would creatures on the other side be sucked through the portal by the current? This also goes for other planes, for example soil pouring out of a plane to the elemental plane of earth or flames bursting from the plane of fire.
Another question. Can you open a Gate between two locations in the same plane, or only between planes?
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2009-10-30, 01:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gate Questions
Originally Posted by d20 SRD
It would probably be best to default to no, only creatures and objects that willing go through or are pushed through get through the gate. Otherwise you'd probably never be able to get through a gate to the elemental plane of water because of the huge torrent of water pouring out, for example. As far as the plane of earth goes, it would have to open up into a pocket in the earth, otherwise you'd be gating into solid stone or dirt, which I'm pretty sure you can't do.
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2009-10-30, 04:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gate Questions
I did a lot of searching to figure out if you could do that very thing, and there is nothing in the book that says no. It also doesn't specify which way the gate has to point, so you could drain a harbor by putting one on the sea floor and face it upwards.
The gate can only lead to another plane of existence.
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2009-10-31, 07:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-10-31, 07:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-10-31, 09:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-10-31, 10:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gate Questions
The waterflow wouldn't be anywhere near as strong as you'd imagine.
Elemental Plane Of Water
The Elemental Plane of Water is a sea without a floor or a surface, an entirely fluid environment lit by a diffuse glow. It is one of the more hospitable of the Inner Planes once a traveler gets past the problem of breathing the local medium.
The eternal oceans of this plane vary between ice cold and boiling hot, between saline and fresh. They are perpetually in motion, wracked by currents and tides. The plane’s permanent settlements form around bits of flotsam and jetsam suspended within this endless liquid. These settlements drift on the tides of the Elemental Plane of Water.
The Elemental Plane of Water has the following traits.
* Subjective directional gravity. The gravity here works similar to that of the Elemental Plane of Air. But sinking or rising on the Elemental Plane of Water is slower (and less dangerous) than on the Elemental Plane of Air.
* Water-dominant.
* Enhanced magic. Spells and spell-like abilities that use or create water are both extended and enlarged (as if the Extend Spell and Enlarge Spell metamagic feats had been used on them, but the spells don’t require higher-level slots). Spells and spell-like abilities that are already extended or enlarged are unaffected by this benefit.
* Impeded magic. Spells and spell-like abilities with the fire descriptor (including spells of the Fire domain) are impeded.
Of course, by extension of this logic. This would mean that humans would explode on the plane of air due to this. So. Physics may work differently there.Sig'd
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2009-10-31, 11:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gate Questions
I answered this before, including the gravity problem. Not sure if I'm right, but it looks right to me:
The pressure problem
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showp...8&postcount=83
The gravity problem
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showp...&postcount=128
If you (as DM) decide that the plane of water is going to have a pressure of 1 atmosphere, do remember that you're not going to get anything out of a Gate to the Elemental Plane of Water. (1 atm there = 1 atm here = no net pressure = no net flow)
You can drain an ocean into the Plane of Water though, since oceans are at higher pressure than 1 atm.Last edited by jseah; 2009-10-31 at 11:05 AM.
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2009-10-31, 02:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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