Problem spotted in testing. Recall is a 2nd-level class feature and it carries you and nobody else - deliberately, because the daemon is the safest scout on the verge and the worst rescue.
Except a party with three or four daemons in it does not need a party bus. They each just leave. So the encounter you built ends with the room emptying in one round and everyone shrugging.
The fix that went in: a Recall tears the place you left out of true. For 1d20 rounds nobody can Recall out of a 300 foot radius centred on where you departed from, until reality settles. The caster is not exempt.
What I like about it is the tax scales with the actual problem. One daemon leaving pays nothing, because they were only casting it once anyway. Four daemons leaving pay everything, because the first one out pulls the road up behind them. Arrivals are untouched, so you can still Recall in - and you can still beat it with 300 feet of spacing or with Gate at 10th, which are both plans rather than accidents.
Except a party with three or four daemons in it does not need a party bus. They each just leave. So the encounter you built ends with the room emptying in one round and everyone shrugging.
The fix that went in: a Recall tears the place you left out of true. For 1d20 rounds nobody can Recall out of a 300 foot radius centred on where you departed from, until reality settles. The caster is not exempt.
What I like about it is the tax scales with the actual problem. One daemon leaving pays nothing, because they were only casting it once anyway. Four daemons leaving pay everything, because the first one out pulls the road up behind them. Arrivals are untouched, so you can still Recall in - and you can still beat it with 300 feet of spacing or with Gate at 10th, which are both plans rather than accidents.
