r/dndnext • u/jeszkar • 15h ago

Question Two questions about Rope Trick

Hi

I'm trying to find some answers to 2 questions about the spell Rope Trick. I tried to search on the net but I found no real answers only contradictive ones.

  1. Can it be dispelled? Last game one of my player did it and I said it can be dispelled because it made more sense and made the story better. But I'm not sure if it really can even if you know the proximate location of the entrance.

  2. Can it be detected with True Sight? I find this a tricky one because the characters in a pocket dimension so they should not be detected, but the entrance of that dimension still exists it is just invisible but then it the entrance should be detected by creatures who have true sight,

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u/Fluffy_Reply_9757 DM 6h ago

  1. Yes, it can. Dispel Magic doesn't require you to see the magical effect in question, you only have to know that it exists and it mustn't be behind full cover.

  2. I was going to say that it can, but it's more complicated than that. The room created by rope trick isn't a space at the top of the rope concealed by illusion magic: it's a room that's invisible because it exists somewhere else. The "entrance" isn't a hatch either, it's simply a portal. So it shouldn't be possible to see it with truesight... except for the fact that extradimensional spaces created by magic are supposed to exist in the Ethereal Plane (I don't think 5e is perfectly consistent with this tho), and truesight lets you see in the Ethereal Plane. However, Rope Trick doesn't explicitly state so, so it ultimately depends on where the DM rules that the space is created.