Campaign Design - Spells: Doorway to Elsewhere

Doorway to Elsewhere (from the Book of Eldritch Might III)
Transmutation

Level: Sorcerer/Wizard 9
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: Six hours
Range: See text

Target, Effect, or Area: One-way magical door

Duration: Permanent

Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

This spell creates a doorway through which you view another location, The doorway is a 5-foot-by-8-foot one-way magical hole that allows you or anyone else to step into the desired location. You cannot choose or change the position orientation, or angle of the doorway. Any spell that protects an area from teleportation or scrying also prevents a doorway to elsewhere from opening into it.

A creature in the destination location with an Intelligence of 12 or higher can notice the doorway by making a Spellcraft skill check (or Intelligence check) against DC 20. Even if the doorway is noticed, it remains one-way and the creature cannot look or step in - he merely knows it is there.

When creating the doorway, choose a place known to you that the doorway leads top - a place you have been or have had described to you. It can even be on another plane. To determine if the doorway appears where you want it to, roll on the following table:

Familiarity	On Target	Off Target	Similar Area	Mishap
Very Familiar	01 - 97	98 - 99	100	-
Studied Carefully	01 - 94	95 - 97	98 - 99	100
Seen Casually	01 - 88	89 - 94	95 - 98	99 - 100
Viewed Once	01 - 76	77 - 88	89 - 96	97 - 100
Description	01 - 52	53 - 76	77 - 92	93 - 100
False Destination (1d20+80)	-	-	81 - 92	93 - 100

Familiarity: "Very familiar" refers to a place where you have been very often and where you feel at home. "Studied carefully" is a place you know well, either because you've been there often or because you have used other means (such as scry) to study the place. "Seen casually" is a place you have seen more than once but with which you are not very familiar. "Viewed once" is a place you have seen once, possibly using magic. "Description" is a place whose location and appearance you know through someone else's description, perhaps from a precise map.

"False destination" is a place that doesn't exist, such as if you have mistranslated an ancient tome and tried to step into a nonexistent treasure vault that you believe you read about, or if a traitorous guide has carefully described an enemy's sanctum to you wholly inaccurately. When looking into a false destination, roll 1d20 + 80 to obtain results on the table rather than rolling percentile dice, since there is no real location for you to hope to see or even be off target from.

On Target: The doorway opens into the place you want.

Off Target: The doorway opens into a location a random distance away from the desired location in a random direction. Distance off target measures 1d10 x 1d10 percent of the distance between you and the original location. If the door goes to another plane, the off-target location is another plane.

Similar Area: The doorway opens into a location that's visually or thematically similar to the target area. Generally, you step into the closest similar place, but since the spell has no range limit, you could conceivably step somewhere else across the globe.

Mishap: The doorway's energy explodes around you, inflicting 3d6 points of damage to you and all within 10 feet of you.

Material component: A 5-foot-by-7-foot pane of quality glass with a silver frame worth at least 5,000 shillings.

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