[RPG] Can a character shadowstep, dimension door, or teleport away from sovereign glue

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A character gets stuck to a handled firmly attached to wall with sovereign glue.

  • Can the character use shadow step to get away from the wall?
  • Can the character use teleport to get away from the wall?
  • Can the character use dimension door to get away from the wall?

This seems to be a collision between the RAW of teleport like magic and sovereign glue:

The glue takes 1 minute to set. Once it has done so, the bond it creates can be broken only by the application of Universal Solvent or Oil of Etherealness, or with a wish spell.

The description of shadow step is relatively short. The functional part for this question is:

… as a bonus action, you can teleport up to 60 feet..

The teleport spell is similarly worded:

This spell instantly transports you and up to eight willing creatures of your choice that you can see within range, or a single object that you can see within range, to a destination you select.


Clarification

The question was assuming that the character can be joined to the handle by use of the glue in the first place. In order to for this to be true in 5e, it would require a house rule. That was the intent of the original question. The tags have been updated to reflect this.

The answer by Rubiksmoose and comment by LordHieros elucidated that the assumption is preempted by RAW in regards to creature/object.

Best Answer

As mentioned by Rubiksmoose, sovereign glue only works on objects, not creatures.

That being said, I'll leave my original answer below, provided that the glue working on creatures is the only house rule your DM made. Ultimately, it will be his or her call, though.

No, you can't break the connection with any kind of teleportation, unless the description of this teleportation explicitly states so.

The description of Sovereign Glue (DMG, p. 200) explicitly states:

Once it has done so, the bond it creates can be broken only by the application of universal solvent or oil of etherealness, or with a wish spell.

Specific overrules general, so even if you had a means of teleportation that stated something like "breaks any attachments to objects or creatures too large to teleport along", you couldn't teleport away from the glue.

However, I don't know of any means of teleportation that has something even remotely similar to this in its description, so according to RAW, the answer is clearly a strict No.

So, what are your other choices?

  • use one of the means that are described in the description
  • cut off your hand, or flay your hand
  • cut out part of the wall
  • remain there forever and die.

Mind you - Sovereign Glue is a legendary item, so it should be accordingly powerful.
In fact, your DM might even rule that chopping off your hand or carving out a piece of the wall is impossible, since you are glued to the wall, and that bond cannot be broken by any means other than those explicitly mentioned in the description.