[RPG] Can Dimension Door be cast into Leomund’s Tiny Hut

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In tonight's session, the party came across a Leomund's Tiny Hut. The party's bard chose to cast Dimension Door into it. This caused a bit of a (friendly) disagreement among the party, and none of us had an answer that solidly convinced the other side.

Leomund's Tiny Hut states:

Creatures and objects⁠ within the dome when you cast this spell can move through it freely. All other creatures and objects⁠ are barred from passing through it. Spells and other magical effects can't extend through the dome or be cast through it.

Dimension Door states:

You telepo⁠rt yourself from your current location to any other spot within range. You arrive at exactly the spot desired. It can be a place you can see, one you can visualize, or one you can describe by stating distance and direction, such as “200 feet straight downward” or “upward to the northwest at a 45-degree angle, 300 feet.”

The disagreement stemmed from the use of the word through. Dimension Door doesn't launch anything or move the person through anything; you teleport, technically never crossing the barrier of Leomund's Tiny Hut. Instead, you completely bypass the Hut's walls and simply appear inside of it, and as a result it would not be blocked by Leomund's Tiny Hut's effects.

On the other hand, my interpretation is that Dimension Door is still extending through the Hut. You would need to be able to magically connect yourself from where you are to where you want to be, and that magical connection would be blocked by the Hut's barrier, causing the spell to fail.

None of us were able to find a solid answer, and after some google searching we could find nobody bringing up this circumstance.

Is it possible to cast Dimension Door through a Leomund's Tiny Hut, using the loophole that you technically never pass through the barrier?

Best Answer

You Cannot Teleport Into the Tiny Hut

A key, though subtle point to this opinion is a statement on Range in the PHB (203)

Once a spell is cast, its effects aren’t limited by its range, unless the spell’s description says otherwise.

The suggestion is that during and before spell casting the spell's effects are limited by range.

Jeremy Crawford weighs in on this issue here, specifically in this tweet:

The indigo layer of prismatic wall prevents you from casting spells through it. This doesn't stop a spell with a range of self, such as misty step, but it does stop dimension door, which has a range of 500 ft.

and Leomund's Tiny Hut (PHB 254):

Spells and other magical effects can’t extend through the dome or be cast through it.

Because of it's range of 500 ft, casting Dimension Door to teleport into the Tiny Hut would involve casting the spell through the dome and cannot be done.

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