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PSYCHIC WIND EFFECTS
ETHEREAL PLANE
d20 Location Effect
Tamlinfelt a hand on him, felt his body shimmer into
1-8 Diverted; add 1d6 hours to travel time
mist The screams and shouts sounded far off- The walls
9- 12 Blown off course; add 3d10 hours to travel time
13-16 Lost; at the end of the travel time, characters arrive around him appeared to be only gray shadows. Rival en
at a location other than the intended destination and Brenn us stood beside him.
17- 20 Sent through color pool to a random plane (roll on "The ethereal plane," Rivalen said. "The dragon's breath
the Astral Color Pools table)
cannot affect us here."
d20 Mental Effect - PaulS. Kemp, Shadowstorm
1-8 Stunned for 1 minute; you can repeat the saving
throw at the end of each of your turns to end the The Ethereal Plane is a misty, fog-bound dimension.
effect on yourself Its "shores," called the Border Ethereal, overlap the
9-10 Short-term madness (see chapter 8) Material Plane and the Inner Planes, so that every
11- 12 11 (2d10) psychic damage location on those planes has a corresponding location
on the Ethereal Plane. Visibility in the Border Ethereal
13- 16 22 (4d10) psychic damage
is limited to 60 feet The plane's depths comprise a
17-18 Long-term madness (see chapter 8)
region of swirling mist and fog called the Deep EthereaL
19-20 Unconscious for 5 (1d10) minutes; the effect on
where visibility is limited to 30 feet
you ends if you take damage or if another creature
Characters can use the etherealness spell to enter
uses an action to shake you awake the Border EthereaL The plane shift spell allows
transport to the Border Ethereal or the Deep Ethereal,
ASTRAL PLANE ENCOUNTERS but unless the intended destination is a specific location
or a teleportation circle, the point of arrival could be
Planar travelers and refugees from other planes wander
anywhere on the plane.
the expanses of the Astral Plane. The most prominent
denizens of the Astral Plane are the githyanki, an
BORDER ETHEREAL
outcast race of reavers that sail sleek astral ships, ------
slaughter astral travelers, and raid planes touched From the Border Ethereal, a traveler can see into
by the AstraL Their city, Tu'narath, floats through the whatever plane it overlaps, but that plane appears muted
Astral Plane on a chunk of rock that is actually the body and indistinct, its colors blurring into each other and
of a dead god. its edges turning fuzzy. Ethereal denizens watch the
Celestials, fiends, and mortal explorers often scour plane as though peering through distorted and frosted
the Astral Plane for color pools leading to desired glass, and can't see anything beyond 30 feet into the
destinations. Characters who linger for too long other plane. Conversely, the Ethereal Plane is usually
in the Astral might have an encounter with one or invisible to those on the overlapped planes, except with
more wandering angels, demons, devils, night hags, the aid of magic.
yugoloths, or other planar travelers. -Normally, creatures in the Border Ethereal can't
attack creatures on the overlapped plane, and vice
versa. A traveler on the Ethereal Plane is invisible and
utterly silent to someone on the overlapped plane, and
solid objects on the overlapped plane don't hamper
the movement of a creature in the Border EthereaL
The exceptions are certain magical effects (including
anything made of magical force) and living beings. This
makes the Ethereal Plane ideal for reconnaissance,
spying on opponents, and moving around without being
detected. The Ethereal Plane also disobeys the laws
of gravity; a creature there can move up and down as
easily as walking.

DEEP ETHEREAL
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To reach the Deep Ethereal, one needs a plane shift
spell or arrive by means of a gate spell or magical portaL
Visitors to the Deep Ethereal are engulfed by roiling
mist Scattered throughout the plane are curtains of
vaporous color, and passing through a curtain leads a
traveler to a region of the Border Ethereal connected to
a specific Inner Plane, the Material Plane, the Feywild.
or the ShadowfelL The color of the curtain indicates the
plane whose Border Ethereal the curtain conceals; see
the Ethereal Curtains table.