D&D 5E - Banishment and Incapacitated

Posted by Chauncey Koziol on Sunday, August 18, 2024
I mean, it says they are "banished" to their home plane. I would interpret "banished" as also functioning like a condition, specifically a pseudo-condition of not being able to go to the plane they are banished from (per the normal meaning of being "banished" from a place) for the duration of the spell. If the spell ends early they get a free ride back. If it does not they may return by their own means if able after the spell ends.

The sort of enemies who can casually toss off a plane shift can probably come up with ways to come back meaner than ever when given a minute of timeout, without making the players feel so much like they got cheated out of their cool move as if they just come back the next turn. They should be buffing themself up or rounding-up up to eight willing minions.

Others have, of course, noted that Plane Shift doesn't work as you used it. You would generally need to use Gate for a creature to come straight back to the fight, though it is not a stretch to have a teleportation circle near a fight you are anticipating will likely involve an extraplanar being getting banished.

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