[PnP] pnp Digest, Vol 151, Issue 9 -Planar Travel

[Scott Adams]

Interesting.  That portal is a more static World Portal than a 
personal portal.  We know Avalon has portals to MW to other 
worlds.  That is if I recall in the site book.  I imagine tehre are 
many such WPs that are  not seen and folks stumble upon on.
It is like our world. Some suspect those who go to a forest or desert 
and disappear may have crossed a portal.  If you believe those things.

Your door portal is nice but i suspect it would ebb Kotothi (ie light 
n edges ie kotothi juice).  So those who sense such things would 
detect it and fear it.

No.  I was mainly talking about personal portals.  Those that aren't 
static.  So a Dwarf needs to go to LW he uses his innate ability and 
poof.  In '80s we had a argument on this.  Surrounded by X army ok 
escape!  portal to LW.
Seemed too easy.  Thiose those rules on who can access, where it 
goes, etc all need to be defined as a protocol.  For example some 
think a PP should ONLY allow the innate user (ie dwarf) t opass 
thorugh.  then close.
Thus not allowing a party to easy escape.

These kind of parameters I think we need to figure out.




At 03:48 PM 10/31/2018, you wrote:
>I confess that I have never advanced a character so far as to be 
>able to use this spell & frankly, it scares me (or rather, my 
>characters) to even try it. I believe I would only participate in 
>such a spell as part in the included group going - WITH the caster - 
>& only by direct invitation from the other side, & the caster would 
>have to be from that place. Since it involves the Upper Worlds & my 
>PCs don't know personally any Alfar or angelic-type characters, the 
>chance of this seems very dim. And the PC would have to consider how 
>long they would be absent from the Middle World.
>
>This is what I have considered:
>
>That said, I confess that I had a created portal in my 2nd novel, 
>created by a Kotothi god, which linked to his own plane (the Lower 
>World). I presented it as a huge door, about 10 feet high & 6 feet 
>across, of ancient-appearing metal-reinforced (iron?) wood, with a 
>light coming through the cracks around its edges (top, bottom & 
>sides). I pictured it in my mind as a door opening TOWARD the Middle 
>World, since its created purpose was to funnel through various chaos 
>(only 1) & kotothi monsters from the Lower World to create havoc in 
>the Middle World. I pictured it as located (in the Lower World at 
>the edge of kotothi territory, but near a chaos boundary, so that 
>both types of creatures might be forced across by their gods)
>
>I had felt the door could send folks both ways (altho since it 
>opened TOWARD us, those on the other side would meet less 
>resistance), but no one on our side was foolish enough to try 
>opening it, & indeed, their goal became to get someone experienced 
>enough to block the portal (since I had no real idea of how long it 
>could exist when made by a Contact Level 5 Dark Elder god - Mallon 
>Trow). I had to create an older NPC/PC (51 year-old Balance Priest, 
>MEL9 level) to deal with blocking the portal's exit with a Ward Pact 
>& it's Guardian. I figured it should last long enough for the 
>created portal to fade on its own, although, since I wasn't sure how 
>it all worked, its EL level being unknown,  I left the situation in some doubt.
>
>That's my only portal experience. I figured as long as the portal 
>was open, creatures could pass through it, especially if the god 
>continually renewed the spell. I largest group was, I think, eight. 
>I was trying to be reasonable & not entirely into an author's 
>flights of fancy (plus, my PCs were all fairly new (level 1-2), so 
>didn't want to overwhelm them - I DO try to follow the game's rules - lol).
>
>I have already given away too much of my story - sigh. Wish I could 
>get a literary agent to read my book;I'm sure they would think it 
>worthy of being published in some form.
>
>This discussion could prove very fruitful. I should create a few 
>more older NPC/PCs to figure these things out. I created my 51-year 
>old by simply extending the character creation tables (same 
>parameters as initial PC creation) to accommodate the skills I 
>needed, that is, having enough points to grow the spells I needed to 
>hi-enuff levels.
>
>
>Bess L. Hadley
>
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