Gate

Gate opens a doorway between two distant places. One opening forms in free space beside the caster, the other at the chosen destination. Look through either side and you see the far place; step through and you cross as if the two spaces touched. Creatures, objects, attacks, spells, light, sound, air, and water pass the same way.

The doorway is two-way and open to anyone who reaches it, friend or enemy alike. It holds until its duration ends, until the caster dismisses it, or until one opening is dispelled—closing or suppressing one end closes both. The caster may open it at any width up to the maximum, down to just wide enough to step through.

The destination follows the same rules as Teleport: a visible or well-known place opens at once, while a vague or half-remembered one may call for a prescribed chance roll. The Gate fails to open if the far end would fall inside solid matter or has no room to form.

Level	Maximum opening	Maximum distance	Duration
2	5 ft across	20 ft + 5 ft per CL; destination visible	rounds per level
4	10 ft across	500 ft + 50 ft per CL	minutes per level
6	30 ft across	500 miles per CL	10 minutes per level
8	100 ft across	Unlimited, including across planes	hours per level
10	1,000 ft across	Unlimited, including across planes	days per level

Psychic Gate. Stable blue mana holds the doorway open one duration category longer than the table shows: minutes per level at Level 2, rising to weeks per level at Level 10.

Ritual (Level 8). A circle of Psychic sorcerers can raise the Level 8 Gate over an hour of shared casting. At least one participant must be a Level 7 character who knows Gate. Kaer expeditions use such circles to reach a range and duration no lone caster can hold.

Dimensional Lock, Planar Lock, and similar wards can keep either opening from forming, or force the Gate through a caster level check set by the ward.