I have some success stories.Gwaihir said:Does anyone have any success stories (or the opposite, I guess) dealing with time travel and how it was handled in a campaign? I'm thinking of including this as an element in my campaign. Thanks
Rowling's handling of time travel was actually a case of poor writing, one of her worst. Even were time travel possible, you cannot be saved from certain death by a future version of yourself who would never have existed had you died. Of course, Rowling pulls fallacies and deus ex machinas left and right, so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised by such a blunder.die_kluge said:I really liked the way Rowling handled it in Harry Potter _Prisoner of Azkaban_. I thought that was very clever, and I could see myself introducing a magic item not unlike the one Hermione had in that. And it'd be an artifact.
Rystil Arden said:Rowling's handling of time travel was actually a case of poor writing, one of her worst. Even were time travel possible, you cannot be saved from certain death by a future version of yourself who would never have existed had you died. Of course, Rowling pulls fallacies and deus ex machinas left and right, so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised by such a blunder.
The link leads to a study on the time travel suicide that does not dispute my claim against Rowling. Overconstrained or underconstrained, the time travel cannot occur without the existence of a Harry-0 who survived without the aid of a future Harry and then went back in time.scriven said:Actually, Rowling's depiction of time travel is very much in line with
current physics. This so impressed me when I saw the third
movie that I went and read the books.
Here's a link with some details about the physics of time travel:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-travel-phys
Here's a link with some details about the physics of time travel:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-travel-phys
The link leads to a study on the time travel suicide that does not dispute my claim against Rowling. Overconstrained or underconstrained, the time travel cannot occur without the existence of a Harry-0 who survived without the aid of a future Harry and then went back in time.