Reality Maelstrom

9th-level evocation (Sorcerer,Warlock,Wizard)


  • Casting Time: 1 action
  • Range: 150 feet
  • Components: V, S, M (a golden hoop no less than 1 inch across)
  • Duration: 1 round

With a crack of lightning and thunder, a 20-foot radius spherical rip in space and time appears, centered on a point you choose within range. All loose materials weighing under 100 pounds within the sphere are sucked into the center of the maelstrom and transported to a random plane of existence. Similarly, any creatures caught within the sphere must make a Wisdom saving throw or be pulled into the maelstrom and transported. All objects and creatures sucked into the maelstrom are transported to the same plane of existence.

The maelstrom has a secondary windstorm effect that extends 40 feet from the center of the sphere. All unattended objects weighing 50 pounds or less in the extended area are pulled 20 feet closer toward the maelstrom's center, and then sucked into the rift and transported. A creature within the extended area must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, it is pulled 20 feet closer to the center of the sphere. Any creature pulled into the sphere must make the Wisdom saving throw, being transported to another plane on a failure.

Each time this spell is cast, roll on the following table to determine the destination for any objects or creatures transported to another plane.

d100 Planar Destination
01-05 Tarterian Depths of Carceri
06-10 Ever-Changing Chaos of Limbo
11-15 Windswept Depths of Pandemonium
16-20 Infinite Layers of the Abyss
21-25 Heroic Domains of Ysgard
26-30 Gray Waste of Hades
31-35 Bleak Eternity of Gehanna
36-40 Nine Hells of Baator
41-45 Infernal Battlefield of Acheron
46-50 Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus
51-55 Peaceable Kingdoms of Arcadia
56-60 Seven Mounting Heavens of Celestia
61-65 Twin Paradises of Bytopia
66-70 Blessed Fields of Elysium
71-75 Wilderness of the Beastlands
76-80 Olympian Glades of Arborea
81-89 Concordant Domain of the Outlands
90-91 Elemental Plane of Fire
92-93 Elemental Plane of Earth
94-95 Elemental Plane of Air
96-97 Elemental Plane of Water
98 Feywild
99 Shadowfell
100 Barovia or other demiplane of the DM's Choice