Ravenloft has its share of ghosts and incorporeal undead. However, planar travel and teleportation are impossible within Ravenloft.
Simple version: do spells like Etherlealness or even Blink work in Ravenloft?
Complex version: I want to make a domain that is slowly being dragged into the Ethereal Plane. Would that be possible for a dark lord, and what options would the players have to resist this effect, including being dragged through themselves? Is that something a Dark Lord could control?
I’m no expert on the setting, but the general rule is, if you’re the DM, it works if you want it to. And if you’re worried about how, it because of some ancient artifact or ritual — and it’s either working as intended, or gone horribly wrong.
That's explicitly covered in the rules block you're asking about - yes, Etherealness works. In general, the two planar exceptions are that you can go into the Border Ethereal or into an extradimensional space. Rules block is here.
A Darklord unquestionably can't shift their Domain of Dread from the Shadowfell to the Ethereal Plane. Domains of Dread serve as prisons for their Darklords. Anything that even hints of escape from it is unavailable to the Darklord. If a Domain of Dread was changing planes, the PCs would have no stock way to stop this from happening - just as you'd have to write a way into your world for the thing to happen, you'd have to write in ways to stop it, if you wanted it stopped. Otherwise, what you're describing is above the pay grade of Wish. If you really want to give the PCs a tool just from their class abilities, Divine Intervention (the cleric ability) can do whatever you say it can do, but don't lean into this too hard - DI is more powerful than Wish, but your plot is going to require that your clerics can't simply DI out of every possible problem.
Complex version: I want to make a domain that is slowly being dragged into the Ethereal Plane. Would that be possible for a dark lord, and what options would the players have to resist this effect, including being dragged through themselves? Is that something a Dark Lord could control?
Putting on my DM hat, the best way to approach that might be as a failed escape attempt by the Darklord. They figured they couldn't escape the domain, so they'd just take the whole domain with them, and, well, oops.
Maybe set up the Domain as one where pockets of etherealness just move around the countryside causing havoc, and in other areas there are spots which are permanently in the Border Ethereal - like, cutting a house down the middle and trapping half the family on one side or the other kind of scenarios. Just maximum chaos.
The overall arc could be the party trying to stop the Darklord from even making the escape attempt that causes the disaster, or maybe they stumble into the Domain after it's already happened, giving them lots of side quests to try to help people trapped by the effects while they figure out how to fix it and reset the Domain to "normal" (if that's even possible).
it's a really good idea. Play around with it and see what approach fits the best for your campaign and party.
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Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock) Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric) Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue) Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
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Ravenloft has its share of ghosts and incorporeal undead. However, planar travel and teleportation are impossible within Ravenloft.
Simple version: do spells like Etherlealness or even Blink work in Ravenloft?
Complex version: I want to make a domain that is slowly being dragged into the Ethereal Plane. Would that be possible for a dark lord, and what options would the players have to resist this effect, including being dragged through themselves? Is that something a Dark Lord could control?
I’m no expert on the setting, but the general rule is, if you’re the DM, it works if you want it to. And if you’re worried about how, it because of some ancient artifact or ritual — and it’s either working as intended, or gone horribly wrong.
That's explicitly covered in the rules block you're asking about - yes, Etherealness works. In general, the two planar exceptions are that you can go into the Border Ethereal or into an extradimensional space. Rules block is here.
A Darklord unquestionably can't shift their Domain of Dread from the Shadowfell to the Ethereal Plane. Domains of Dread serve as prisons for their Darklords. Anything that even hints of escape from it is unavailable to the Darklord. If a Domain of Dread was changing planes, the PCs would have no stock way to stop this from happening - just as you'd have to write a way into your world for the thing to happen, you'd have to write in ways to stop it, if you wanted it stopped. Otherwise, what you're describing is above the pay grade of Wish. If you really want to give the PCs a tool just from their class abilities, Divine Intervention (the cleric ability) can do whatever you say it can do, but don't lean into this too hard - DI is more powerful than Wish, but your plot is going to require that your clerics can't simply DI out of every possible problem.
Putting on my DM hat, the best way to approach that might be as a failed escape attempt by the Darklord. They figured they couldn't escape the domain, so they'd just take the whole domain with them, and, well, oops.
Maybe set up the Domain as one where pockets of etherealness just move around the countryside causing havoc, and in other areas there are spots which are permanently in the Border Ethereal - like, cutting a house down the middle and trapping half the family on one side or the other kind of scenarios. Just maximum chaos.
The overall arc could be the party trying to stop the Darklord from even making the escape attempt that causes the disaster, or maybe they stumble into the Domain after it's already happened, giving them lots of side quests to try to help people trapped by the effects while they figure out how to fix it and reset the Domain to "normal" (if that's even possible).
it's a really good idea. Play around with it and see what approach fits the best for your campaign and party.
Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock)
Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric)
Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)