During this time, you can move in any direction. You step into the border regions of the Ethereal Plane, in the area where it overlaps with your current plane. Ethereal plane in 5e. You remain in the Border Ethereal for the duration or until you use your action to dismiss the spell. You move toward the border region of the Ethereal Plane, in the area where it overlaps with your current plane.

It was an intelligent, malignant creature so it used this to surprise them a few times before they downed it.

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A few weeks back I was DMing for a group of players and they fought a monster that had the ability to go to and from the ethereal plane with an action. You can move wherever you want during this time.

From D&D Wiki. 5th Edition.

You remain in the border region of the Ethereal Plane for the duration until you use your actions to end the spell. If you move up or …

The Ethereal Plane is coexistent with the Material Plane and often other planes as well. The Material Plane itself is visible from the Ethereal Plane, but it appears muted and indistinct, its colors blurring into each other and its edges turning fuzzy. In the Great Wheel cosmology model, the Ethereal plane existed adjacent to the Prime Material Plane and connected it to the Inner planes (the Elemental planes plus the Energy planes). The Ethereal plane was one of the planes of existence in various models of cosmology.

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