Briefly surrounded by silvery mist, you teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see.
If a rope was tied to your character, and that character uses Misty Step to appear up to 30 feet away, would you be able to take the rope with you to the other side? Does the rope ties to you work as gear carried?
I’d say that the entire rope either goes with you or stays behind. But once you’re on the other side of a ravine, it’s trivial to tie the rope to a thrown weapon and throw it across or use Mage Hand or another spell to pull one end of the rope across to you.
It's clear the spell is intended to let you take whatever you're wearing and carrying since otherwise it's ridiculously impractical, but how far you can stretch that concept is a conversation you need to have with your DM since the spell never defines it.
Personally the only two sensible outcomes are that you teleport out of the rope, or the whole rope teleports with you, neither of which are super useful if you need one end of the rope at each side. If you're only dealing with a 30 foot gap you might as well just save the spell slot and just tie something heavy to the end of the rope and throw it.
Whatever you are wearing or carrying goes with you, so whatever piece of rope and or rope you are holding goes with, the rest stays behind. You have now developed the most resource intensive way to cut rope. :-)
*waits for this to turn into a huge conversation about the actual most resource intensive way to cut rope*
Agreed, unless you need the rope anchored solidly on the other side. Something that can be thrown won't anchor the rope solidly enough to climb across.
Securing it on the other side is the intent. There are races that allow the use of Misty Step as something they can use once per short rest so easy on the resources. Trying to make it easier on the other player characters that don't have much in their stat block for strength. At a low level teleport is not an option as none of the player characters are anywhere near high enough in spell casting to use that. Mage Hand would pass it 30 feet, but the gap being 30 feet means it could only get the other end there, but not enough reach to tie off. Misty Step has some good practical uses I can see crossing gaps, shifting in a combat encounter, getting out of a combat encounter, letting you climb over something difficult that is within range. Thanks for all the feedback. I appreciate it.
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Misty Step reads in the text:
Briefly surrounded by silvery mist, you teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see.
If a rope was tied to your character, and that character uses Misty Step to appear up to 30 feet away, would you be able to take the rope with you to the other side? Does the rope ties to you work as gear carried?
I’d say that the entire rope either goes with you or stays behind. But once you’re on the other side of a ravine, it’s trivial to tie the rope to a thrown weapon and throw it across or use Mage Hand or another spell to pull one end of the rope across to you.
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It's clear the spell is intended to let you take whatever you're wearing and carrying since otherwise it's ridiculously impractical, but how far you can stretch that concept is a conversation you need to have with your DM since the spell never defines it.
Personally the only two sensible outcomes are that you teleport out of the rope, or the whole rope teleports with you, neither of which are super useful if you need one end of the rope at each side. If you're only dealing with a 30 foot gap you might as well just save the spell slot and just tie something heavy to the end of the rope and throw it.
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Whatever you are wearing or carrying goes with you, so whatever piece of rope and or rope you are holding goes with, the rest stays behind. You have now developed the most resource intensive way to cut rope. :-)
*waits for this to turn into a huge conversation about the actual most resource intensive way to cut rope*
Agreed, unless you need the rope anchored solidly on the other side. Something that can be thrown won't anchor the rope solidly enough to climb across.
Professional computer geek
Securing it on the other side is the intent. There are races that allow the use of Misty Step as something they can use once per short rest so easy on the resources. Trying to make it easier on the other player characters that don't have much in their stat block for strength. At a low level teleport is not an option as none of the player characters are anywhere near high enough in spell casting to use that. Mage Hand would pass it 30 feet, but the gap being 30 feet means it could only get the other end there, but not enough reach to tie off. Misty Step has some good practical uses I can see crossing gaps, shifting in a combat encounter, getting out of a combat encounter, letting you climb over something difficult that is within range. Thanks for all the feedback. I appreciate it.