Dimension Door

4th-Level Conjuration
Casting Time: 1 Action
Range: 500 feet
Components: V
Duration: Instantaneous
Available To: Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard

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Effect

You teleport from your current location to any other spot within range. You arrive exactly at the destination you choose.

You can bring one willing creature of your size or smaller who is within 5 feet of you when you cast the spell. That creature teleports with you and appears in an adjacent space.

The destination can be a location you can see, one you can visualize, or one you can describe by stating distance and direction.

You must arrive in a space that can physically accommodate you. If the destination is occupied or otherwise invalid, you take 4d6 force damage, and the spell fails to transport you.

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Why This Spell Is Dangerous in the World

Dimension Door removes the assumption that position must be earned.

Walls, elevation, locked doors, guarded entrances, and controlled approaches all rely on the idea that reaching a place takes time, effort, or exposure. This spell eliminates that entirely.

That changes how power operates in the world.

A mage can appear inside a chamber thought secure. An assassin can bypass a defended approach entirely. A prisoner can vanish from confinement without crossing a threshold. A ruler’s inner sanctum is no longer protected by distance alone.

Unlike grander planar magic, this danger is subtle and constant. It does not reshape reality—it quietly invalidates the structures built to manage it.

The result is a world where control of space is no longer reliable, and where preparedness must account for sudden, precise intrusion.

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Best Uses

Immediate Escape
When surrounded, restrained, or moments from defeat, Dimension Door ends the situation instantly.

Perfect Repositioning
Appear behind cover, above a battlefield, across a barrier, or exactly where advantage is strongest.

Bypassing Defenses
Ignore doors, walls, choke points, and elevation entirely.

Extraction Under Pressure
Remove yourself and an ally from danger in a single action.

Entry Without Warning
Arrive where presence was not expected and act before the situation adapts.

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Tactics

Dimension Door rewards clarity of intention.

The spell is strongest when you know exactly why you are moving. It is not about distance—it is about outcome. Where do you need to be for the situation to change?

Because the spell allows descriptive targeting, it can be used even without line of sight. This is powerful, but risky. Poor judgment of distance or layout can result in a failed arrival and damage.

Use it to break the rhythm of combat. Appear where the enemy cannot immediately respond. Force them to reorient while you act.

When used defensively, it is one of the cleanest escape tools available. When used aggressively, it can place you exactly where you are most dangerous—but without protection, that position can become a trap.

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DM Notes

Run Dimension Door as instant relocation, not movement.

There should be no visible travel path. No streak, no tunnel, no passage through space. The character is simply gone, then present elsewhere.

This makes the spell feel sharper and more decisive at the table.

Be consistent about destination clarity. If a player describes a location well enough to be reasonable, let the spell work. If the description is vague or incorrect, apply the risk honestly.

The spell becomes most interesting when environments matter: tight interiors, vertical spaces, hidden chambers, layered defenses, and locations where exact positioning changes outcomes.

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Good Combinations

Greater Invisibility: Reposition unseen, then act from a place no one can target.

Hold Person: Lock a target in place, then relocate to exploit the advantage safely.

Wall of Force: Trap enemies or block space, then place yourself exactly where the barrier benefits you most.

Fly: Combine vertical mobility with instant relocation for extreme positioning control.

Misty Step: Short-range adjustment layered with long-range relocation for complete battlefield freedom.

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The defining truth of Dimension Door:

You do not travel there.
You are simply there instead.

Dimension Door

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Conjuration (Teleportation)
Level Bard 4, Sorcerer/Wizard 4, Travel 4
Components V
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range Long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level)
Target You and touched objects or other touched willing creatures
Duration Instantaneous
Saving Throw None and Will negates (object)
Spell Resistance No and Yes (object)

You instantly transfer yourself from your current location to any other spot within range. You always arrive at exactly the spot desired-whether by simply visualizing the area or by stating direction. After using this spell, you can’t take any other actions until your next turn. You can bring along objects as long as their weight doesn’t exceed your maximum load.

You may also bring one additional willing Medium or smaller creature (carrying gear or objects up to its maximum load) or its equivalent per three caster levels. A Large creature counts as two Medium creatures, a Huge creature counts as two Large creatures, and so forth. All creatures to be transported must be in contact with one another, and at least one of those creatures must be in contact with you.

If you arrive in a place that is already occupied by a solid body, you and each creature traveling with you take 1d6 points of damage and are shunted to a random open space on a suitable surface within 100 feet of the intended location.

• If there is no free space within 100 feet, you and each creature traveling with you take an additional 2d6 points of damage and are shunted to a free space within 1,000 feet.
• If there is no free space within 1,000 feet, you and each creature travelling with you take an additional 4d6 points of damage and the spell simply fails.