I was thinking about my character, which is obviously a Shadow Magic Sorcerer, and how the hound would respond if it's set target casted the Plane Shift spell on itself, or something similar to it allowing planer traveling. There's a part about the hound that says At the start of its turn, the hound automatically knows its target's location. If the target was hidden, it is no longer hidden from the hound. What this means to me is that the hound knows its target left the plane of existence we're standing on, and which plane the target ended up in. The big issue I'm having with all of this is how the hound would get to its target without having another source of getting to it.
Well the simple answer is the devs forgot other planes exist.
Honestly this is a little tricky. Because it is not impossible to planar travel without magic, but is pretty difficult/unlikely. Sometimes doors lead to Sigil, from which you can walk to most planes. Certain areas might have natural portals to other planes like a volcano might have a portal to the fire plane, the space between 2 trees might go to the feywild, etc. Or hells, according to spelljammer you can take a boat to heaven or literally any other plane (not an exaggeration. Why is space the astral plane? I will not get over it.).
The problem is all those things probably take longer than the 5 minutes the hound gets to exist for, so probably it just waits for them to come back... Up to your DM really, could be some fun plot.
1) At the start of its turn, the hound automatically knows its target’s location. If the target was hidden, it is no longer hidden from the hound.
2) On its turn, it can move only toward its target by the most direct route, and it can use its action only to attack its target.
Yes the hound knows that the creature is now on another plane.
However, the hound moves towards its target by the most direct route.
If there is no route, the hound would just stand there. If there is an open portal to the plane where the creature resides the hound would go through the portal. The hound can not manipulate objects, it can ONLY move and attack. That's it. The DM could choose to have the hound react in lots of ways but if there is no way to get to the target's location then the hound would just stand there and do nothing since there is nothing else it can do.
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I was thinking about my character, which is obviously a Shadow Magic Sorcerer, and how the hound would respond if it's set target casted the Plane Shift spell on itself, or something similar to it allowing planer traveling. There's a part about the hound that says At the start of its turn, the hound automatically knows its target's location. If the target was hidden, it is no longer hidden from the hound. What this means to me is that the hound knows its target left the plane of existence we're standing on, and which plane the target ended up in. The big issue I'm having with all of this is how the hound would get to its target without having another source of getting to it.
Well the simple answer is the devs forgot other planes exist.
Honestly this is a little tricky. Because it is not impossible to planar travel without magic, but is pretty difficult/unlikely. Sometimes doors lead to Sigil, from which you can walk to most planes. Certain areas might have natural portals to other planes like a volcano might have a portal to the fire plane, the space between 2 trees might go to the feywild, etc. Or hells, according to spelljammer you can take a boat to heaven or literally any other plane (not an exaggeration. Why is space the astral plane? I will not get over it.).
The problem is all those things probably take longer than the 5 minutes the hound gets to exist for, so probably it just waits for them to come back... Up to your DM really, could be some fun plot.
I'm not sure I see the problem.
1) At the start of its turn, the hound automatically knows its target’s location. If the target was hidden, it is no longer hidden from the hound.
2) On its turn, it can move only toward its target by the most direct route, and it can use its action only to attack its target.
Yes the hound knows that the creature is now on another plane.
However, the hound moves towards its target by the most direct route.
If there is no route, the hound would just stand there. If there is an open portal to the plane where the creature resides the hound would go through the portal. The hound can not manipulate objects, it can ONLY move and attack. That's it. The DM could choose to have the hound react in lots of ways but if there is no way to get to the target's location then the hound would just stand there and do nothing since there is nothing else it can do.