DM Entry: Notes for the Plane Shift Focus Component

The plane shift spell has the following focus component:

Focus: A small, forked metal rod. The size and metal type dictates to which plane of existence or alternate dimension the spell sends the affected creatures.

Below are the specific details about research and cost of these plane shift rods.

Plane Type 1	Research Cost 2	Research Time 2	Rod Cost 3
Inner Plane or Transitive Plane	500 gp/ 1,500 gp	1 week/ 6 weeks	100 gp
Outer Plane	1,000 gp/ 3,000 gp	2 weeks/ 3 months	300 gp
Demiplane	5,000 gp/ 15,000 gp	2 months/ 1 year	400 gp
Alternate Material Plane 4	750 gp/ 3,000 gp	3 weeks/ 9 weeks	250 gp
Your Home Plane 5	None	None	50 gp
1 The inner planes include all four of the elemental planes (air, earth, fire, water), all four para-elemental planes (ice, magma, ooze, smoke), all eight quasi-elemental planes (ash, dust, lightning, mineral, radiance, salt, steam, vacuum), the two energy planes (positive, negative), the 75 border regions, as well as the elemental plane of wood that exists where all of the other inner planes converge in the center. The transitive planes include the Astral, Ethereal, Ectoplasm, Mirrors, Region of Dreams/Nightmares, and Shadow.
2 The number before the slashes are the cost and time requirements for planes that are generally known by the campaign’s spellcasters. The numbers after the slashes are the cost and time requirements for destinations about which little is known in the home campaign.
3 The number is the typical cost for constructing one rod, provided that the proper materials are available. Rods made of extremely rare materials can cost considerably more.
4 Any material plane that is not your home plane. Although the phlogiston is what makes up most of the material planes, it is impossible to plane shift directly into the phlogiston. Therefore no rods exist for the phlogiston.
5 Your home plane regardless of whether it’s on the material plane or some other plane.

This information has been updated to 3.5 from 2nd edition. I'm not sure why this information was left out, while still indicating that such information is necessary in the spell description. This has been added to the Aryathan Jiil Campaign Setting.pdf and uploaded to the google drive.