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How big are dimensional portals.

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How big are dimensional portals????
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As big as they need to be...
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pblackcrow wrote:How big are dimensional portals????

Are you asking about ones created by the D-portal Spell?
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Answer is frustratingly "Answer hazy ask your GM"
The spell doesn't say a size. I have seen house rules done several ways.
The rules I use is that they are either 10' x 10' of area per level of the mage if I want limits on dimensional travel, or 10' per level x 10' per level if I don't.
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I would like to amend my answer though. The size is likely going to scale according to how much ambient PPE is available. For example, a single, low-level mage with barely enough PPE to open a rift at mid-noon won't create a rift half the size of the one in the RMB with all the Xitixix pouring through. Conversely, a large group of mortal, experienced mages opening one at midnight, during a lunar eclipse, with several planets in conjunction, at a super-nexus point probably won't be able to prevent a rift from opening up larger than they had intended.
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drewkitty ~..~ wrote:
pblackcrow wrote:How big are dimensional portals????

Are you asking about ones created by the D-portal Spell?

Yea. I need to transport ice from the asteroid belt to the upper atmosphere of Mars. I am not very patent.
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The truth is, the size of these portals can vary quite a bit. The can be very small (too small for anything to actually come through as in the case of the Nexus Deevils' communication rifts), big enough for only one person, a small group or even a large group to pass through. Random Dimensional Rifts can be quite big... bigger than most magic users would be able to open (the super rift created by the Atlantean experiment stretched from Africa to South America).

Generally though, the size will be appropriate for the spell being used. If the spell is only intended to transport the caster, it will only be big enough for him. If it is designed for a group or an army, it will be big enough to handle that sort of traffic. It really depends on what you want to bring through.
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Thanks guys...
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eliakon wrote:Answer is frustratingly "Answer hazy ask your GM"
The spell doesn't say a size. I have seen house rules done several ways.
The rules I use is that they are either 10' x 10' of area per level of the mage if I want limits on dimensional travel, or 10' per level x 10' per level if I don't.

Looking at this as a GM I will paraphrase the creator of Firefly when asked 'how fast do the ships go?'….

As big as the Story requires.
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