Maintaining contact with Outer Planes [Archive] - Wizards Community

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RtrnofdMax

02-27-08, 12:21 PM
So in a campaign I am currently playing in, the Prime Material plane has been cut off from the Outer Planes. This is only one way though, summons and such can come in from the Outer Planes, but characters have no contact with the gods and such that exist on those planes.

Are there any items currently in existence that I could use to justify a Half-Celestial character maintaining contact with his god after coming to the Prime Material? Another player mentioned that they thought there was something like that in an Eberron book, but all I could find was the Orrery of the Planes, and I don't think that could be adapted for our setting.

On a sidenote, does this make sense to you guys, that a character could bring in a summon, but then the summon couldn't return to it's native plane? If so, does this explain why a cleric character would only be able to access elemental domains, and not those of a specific deity?
Surat01

02-27-08, 10:59 PM
I don't know about an item to answer your question, but that is similar to how summoning worked in the Ravenloft setting. Once the creature was summoned, it couldn't return to its native plane. Usually the summoned creature is not happy to have been summoned and trapped.