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HeraldAlberich
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13th Aug, 2019 11:53:26 AM
Well, let's look at Teleportation Tropes and see. You've got your Teleport Interdiction (and related No Warping Zone, though that's more for FTL Travel), Random Transportation, Teleportation Misfire, and general Teleporter Accident for drawbacks. Teleportation that requires equipment at both ends seems to just be covered under the main Teleportation trope, but see also Portal Network.
What is the trope for this? Where teleportation is limited either by only making you only be able to teleport to locations where there's already some sort of beacon or whatever at the receiving end or making it so there's a chance you will teleport to the wrong place by mistake, mainly so teleporting won't be a Story-Breaker Power (i.e they can just teleport to the person/place/thing that the plot revolves around and the story would be over in five minutes.) I'm pretty sure there's a trope for this as it's ubiquitous in sci fi and fantasy