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How does #dnd’s glyph of warding travel across planes?
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Apr 30, 2025
Using a bag of holding to weaponize glyph of warding is objectively hilarious, but it probably isn’t how we want the #dnd rules to work. #dnd5e #2024dnd #ttrpg #dunheonsanddragons
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i find glyph of warding very very
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confusing in both versions of the 5D
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rules 2014 2024 both confusing so the
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description of the spell says that you
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can place the glyph on a surface such as
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a floor or a table or inside an object
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that can be closed such as a book or
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chest since tables books and chests can
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all be moved and can all be of wildly
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different sizes that tells us that we
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can put the glyph on objects of pretty
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wide ranging size it can be on a surface
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no larger than a 10-ft square so it can
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be fairly large but it can also be
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really really small so in theory if you
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could put this on something that could
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uh close that was very very small such
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as a locket or or a coin perhaps you
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could put it on something small enough
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to carry around but if you move the
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object more than 10 ft from where the
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spell was cast the glyph detonates which
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means you can't like carry these around
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in your pocket and pass them out to
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people but it's great for putting on
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something that you need to stay in place
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safely such as a wizard spell book a
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chest full of treasure things like that
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now where it gets complicated is when
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you cross dimensional boundaries such as
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uh teleportation going through a gate to
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another plane of existence or into a bag
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of holding or a portable hole because
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those are extradimensional spaces it's
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not totally clear if that counts as
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moving more than 10 ft if you took a
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string and made it 10 ft long and like
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pulled that string into your bag of
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holding it would be less than 10 ft by
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that distance but allowing us to move
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things into that pocket dimension means
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that we can then pull it back out
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somewhere else to set off the effect of
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those glyphs of warding intentionally so
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is that what we want from the spell
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probably not so in my opinion crossing a
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dimensional boundary is effectively
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traveling an infinite distance you are
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simultaneously going like just a tiny
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little bit but also an infinite distance
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so I have always ruled that when you
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cross a plan or boundary with a glyph of
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warding whether it's into something as
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simple as a bag of holding or a gate to
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another plane of existence that will set
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off the glyphs of warding on the close
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side of that barrier
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