Level
7th
Casting Time
1 Action
Range/Area
Touch
Components
V, S, M *
Duration
Instantaneous
School
Conjuration
Attack/Save
None
Damage/Effect
Banishment (...)
You and up to eight willing creatures who link hands in a circle are transported to a different plane of existence. You can specify a target destination in general terms, such as the City of Brass on the Elemental Plane of Fire or the palace of Dispater on the second level of the Nine Hells, and you appear in or near that destination, as determined by the DM.
Alternatively, if you know the sigil sequence of a teleportation circle on another plane of existence, this spell can take you to that circle. If the teleportation circle is too small to hold all the creatures you transported, they appear in the closest unoccupied spaces next to the circle.
* - (a forked, metal rod worth 250+ GP and attuned to a plane of existence)
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Posted Sep 5, 2024This spell lost its third paragraph from the 2014 version and thus cannot be used as a spell attack to banish a lone unwilling target to another plane of existence.
There goes my chaotic Wild Mage Sorcerer sending random minor villains to the Nine Hells and simultaneously ending an encounter and potentially recycling a future recurring/upgraded villain in the process.
I get that Charisma is a rare save and a no-concentration effect that removes a threat is powerful but they could have just added multiple saves, had a 5.0 banishment style concentration timer for permanent exile, or made Legendary Resistance more common, Instead they took all the fun out of spell and made it purely utility. Makes me wonder why the spell tag kept Banishment as a category or why there is a CHA save entry when all targets must be willing.
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Posted Sep 12, 2024I agree and they also got rid of the ability to use Demiplane as a prison for the BBEG.
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Posted Sep 14, 2024I bet they did it because they were tired of writing "(self only)" for every monster that gets plane shift. Guess they just generally don't want players banishing/trapping people in planes/demiplanes that they have no possible way of escaping from.