Teleportation Circle (2024)

Quote from Blue64 >>

WITH 50 GP? Don't you mean WORTH 50 GP?

something to warp your mind

with a move of 30

144 creatures can move through the portal in one action

Quote from hstein3 >>

Hm. Why not make this a ritual spell? It's already unlikely to be used in combat with a casting time of one minute. Would it be that much harm to cast it without spending the spell slot?

If it were a ritual it would be abused. Teleportation is extremely powerful magic, so it taps your energy significantly, which is mechanically represented by consuming a 5th-level spell slot.

It makes it a hard choice: I learned the sigil sequence for the big bad's lair and can get us in there that way, but I'll be one 5th-level slot down as a result.

Meaningful, difficult choices are what make D&D fun. Making this a ritual would make teleportation much more mundane.

I house rule that it is. I also change up thre means to make a permanent circle. Instead of every day for a year. I make the cost 1000 gp and it takes a long rest which includes you designing your own rune sequence, making the circle, and using magic to infuse the chalks and inks into the stone. Because for an adventurer having to spend 50 gold a day is at least 18 grand and spending a year in game on the same area. Isn't much fun.

Plus my parties usually wind up with a ship and at least 1 homestead gives them a way to get home till they get access to teleportation

Quote from CalebCross253 >>

I make the cost 1000 gp and it takes a long rest which includes you designing your own rune sequence, making the circle, and using magic to infuse the chalks and inks into the stone.
Because for an adventurer having to spend 50 gold a day is at least 18 grand and spending a year in game on the same area. Isn't much fun.

The corresponding year does not have to be played out, it could be a point during the campaign where it would fit with a break of 1-1.5 year before the next world-ending threat emerges, and then saying "There will be a break of 1.5 years, anything you want to do during this time?" will then allow theteleport-caster to say "I want to make a permanent Circle in our fort". During said year, the cost of 50gp a day should be easy for the character to earn doing magic worksince the spell only takes 1 minute per day.

Do not get me wrong, I am not saying you cannot homerule it like you do, just coming with a way to do it as intended without removing the "Fun" part since allowing to make a permanent circle in 1 day at 5.48% of the cost is VERY overpowered.

Is there an official stance on whether the chalk remains on the floor after the casting. (I'm playing it that way anyway, just curious)

The floor drawing must match the sigils of the destination so anyone reading the chalk can learn the sigils of the destination, maybe not where that destination is, but if they can also cast the same spell, they could learn the sigils and follow.

Quote from Bitstream630 >>

How is it that this spell does not designate a Somatic component? The description says you draw a big circle on the ground. How can you do that if you don't have free use of at least one hand?

The meaning of Somatic is that you have to do a specific gesture to cast the Spell, using materials also requires you to have a free hand

"A spellcaster must have a hand free to access these components, but it can be the same hand that he or she uses to perform somatic components."

Quote from Happygamer2019 >>

Why is this spell not a ritual?

Because teleportation then would be way to accessable.
Other than Gold cost you would have no restriction to teleport between circles, with a spell that should be taxing