You don’t need to start and end on the same plane, even less the material plane. It needs no arbitrary “It doesn’t say how far you go on the *material* plane” lawyering to make it very, very useful: Yes, that’s slower than teleport, but as you mentioned, teleport allows you to take more creatures with you.īut all this is ignoring the main benefit of Shadow Walk over Teleport. So, if you Shadow Walk for ten hours, you get 500 miles distance on the material plane. Given that “regular walking speed” for a creature with 30 feet movement is a mere 3 miles per hour given the overland movement tables, and travel by horse – the fastest mundane overland travel rate – is merely 40 miles per hour, I would assume that the 50 miles speed Shadow Walk allows you is exactly the speed you get as the end result. Got a question for Skip Williams? Please add it in comments or on the Ask the Kobold thread. And, two, three, or even four times that isn’t unreasonable. If you want to set a hard limit on the distance you can move with shadow walk, set an effective speed on the Material Plane, 100 miles an hour should be the minimum, I think. The spell only lasts 12 hours, however, so an effective speed of 200 miles an hour is required and the trip takes 10 hours. At 50 miles an hour, the trip would take 40 hours. Let’s say a 12-level caster makes a 2,000-mile trip. To determine how long a shadow walk trip lasts, I recommend dividing the actual distance traveled by 50 miles and assuming an effective speed on the Material Plane fast enough to make the trip in the time the spell lasts. I don’t think there’s any reason to assume there’s any limit to the distance you can travel with the spell, so long as you don’t leave the Material Plane. The spell description doesn’t say how much more rapidly. When skirting the Plane of Shadow, your rate of travel is much more rapid with regard to the Material Plane. While shadow walk lasts one hour per caster level, and it allows travel along the edges of the Plane of Shadow at 50 miles per hour, the maximum travel distance the spell allows is not 50 miles a level, at least with respect to travel on the Material Plane. Shadow walk allows you to drag along unwilling creatures (Will save negates) and teleport does not. Teleport allows one creature of Medium size per three caster levels, creatures bigger than Medium size count as multiple medium creatures, and you can’t haul along more than your maximum with teleport load in any case. Shadow walk lets you take along one creature of any size per caster level. Here are a few other things worth noting about shadow walk and teleport: You can take along more people with shadow walk than you can with teleport. The main reason is that shadow walk allows interplanar travel and teleport does not.
Shadow walk is higher level than teleport for several reasons. Why shouldn’t shadow walk be 5th level and teleport be 6th level? Besides, teleport is instantaneous travel, whereas shadow walk can eat up hours of game time. Why in the world is the shadow walk spell 6th level when teleport is 5th level? Is seems to me that shadow walk’s travel limit of 50 miles/level is less useful that teleport’s 100 miles/level.
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