D&D General Advise for A Mates Harry Potter/Dnd Hybrid RPG in which Albus and Scorpius persuaded Delphini not to change history so that Voldemort wins

JMISBEST

Explorer
See, that’s an easy question and should have been the question to lead with.
Now what?

First, the party + Delphini have a plan, now they need to implement it. I can think of any amount of challenges to trying to implement a plan that causes major changes to the past.

Now villains. You no longer have a big bad, so you will have to replace her. How about time elementals, beings responsible for maintaining the time stream who attack the heroes during the mission and afterwards.

Of course, depending how evil/cynical the DM is, the players’ good intentions could result in a bad future. It is a common time travel trope for a reason.
What do you think of my idea to have Rodolfus get his plan back on track by breaking out of Azkaban and putting Delphini under Imperio?
 

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See, that’s an easy question and should have been the question to lead with.

What do you think of my idea to have Rodolfus get his plan back on track by breaking out of Azkaban and putting Delphini under Imperio?
I haven’t read the Cursed Child so I only know the basics. It involves time travrl and going back in time to change the outcome of the battle ehich lesds to a bad future.

But generally speaking, players din’t really appreciate when the work they’ve done is undercut by deus ex machina: if they’ve done the work to persuade the villain to change sides, having someone else show up to mind control the villain evil again may feel like a cop out.
 


JMISBEST

Explorer
The Cursed Child is garbage, and cannot be canon regardless of what Joanne says, because it breaks the mechanics of time travel established in Prisoner of Azkaban. The book (and the film) establishes that time travel via time turner can’t change the past, because by the time you use the time turner, the “changes” you set out to make have already been made. This is evidenced by the fact that it was Harry who saved his past self and Sirius from the dementors. And in fact all of the trio’s actions in the past are actually foreshadowed in the book (and in the film) before they go back and perform them.

But even if you don’t accept that, it’s also impossible to go back in time nearly that long by time turner. Prisoner of Azkaban establishes that each turn of the time turner takes you back one hour (Dumbledkre recommends that three turns ought to do it, and they go back three hours). To go back in time a single year would take 8,760 turns. Assuming one turn per second, that’s just under about 2 and a half hours. To go back 13 years would take about 32 and a half hours of nonstop turning. Even if you grant that they could do that, they would be physically exhausted from sleep deprivation, badly dehydrated, and probably very hungry when they arrived.
13 years(?), yeah right, add on a decade and well over another half a year

That's because of the time taken to make the deal, complete preperations, decide on back up plans, come up with back up plans for their back up plans Albus and Scorpius have completed The Christmas Term of their 6th year, its now The 21st of December and their going back to The 2nd of may 1,998, that's more then 23 and a half years
 
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JMISBEST

Explorer
Another question. My mates added 3 more players and here's their characters, they don't have a clue that Dlphini's Voldemorts Daughter, if they did they'd turn her in, and likely Albus and Scorpius too, and none of them are in it for Delphini. How do you think Delphini could be persuaded to let them tag along?

The 3 new players are playing Rose Granger, Ron took Hermione's Surname and Rose wants to save Fred, Edward Lupin, wants to save both his parents and hopes to kill Bellatrix but he know's he'll never pull it off, and my Mate has given Greyback A Daughter called Varni that wants revenge on her father for turning her mother into A Werewolf and if it wasn't for Harry Potter Greyback/her own father, would have done the same to her
 
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Charlaquin

Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
13 years(?), yeah right, add on a decade and well over another half a year

That's because of the time taken to make the deal, complete preperations, decide on back up plans, come up with back up plans for their back up plans Albus and Severus are completed The Christmas Term of their 6th year, its now The 21st of December and their going back to The 2nd of may 1,998, that's more then 23 and a half years
Ok, 23.5 years? That’s 205,860 hours. At one turn per second, that’s 57 hours and 11 minutes of nonstop turning. 2 days and 9 hours, no sleep, no food, no water, and no bathroom breaks. They’re going to arrive hungry, severely dehydrated, delirious from sleep deprivation, and in severely soiled clothing. Hope they didn’t lose count at any point during that time.
 

Ancalagon

Dusty Dragon
Another question. My mates added 3 more players and here's their characters, they don't have a clue that Dlphini's Voldemorts Daughter, if they did they'd turn her in, and likely Albus and Severus too, and none of them are in it for Delphini. How do you think Delphini could be persuaded to let them tag along?

The 3 new players are playing Rose Granger, Ron took Hermione's Surname and Rose wants to save Fred, Edward Lupin, wants to save both his parents and hopes to kill Bellatrix but he know's he'll never pull it off, and my Mate has given Greyback A Daughter called Varni that wants revenge on her father for turning her mother into A Werewolf and if it wasn't for Harry Potter Greyback/her own father, would have done the same to her
Why on earth would you add 3 new players to that situation?

My advice is to build a time machine to avoid those 3 players joining.
 


Ancalagon

Dusty Dragon
Seriously speaking, adding 3 players in the middle of a complex game AND the new players won't agree to the course the existing party has taken is a great way to destroy the campaign. There is no reasonable advice we can give you here beyond "don't do it!".
 

JMISBEST

Explorer
Seriously speaking, adding 3 players in the middle of a complex game AND the new players won't agree to the course the existing party has taken is a great way to destroy the campaign. There is no reasonable advice we can give you here beyond "don't do it!".
The 3 new players don't mind the course the existing party has taken, their simply having their characters/Rose Granger, Edward Lupin and Varni Greyback, do what they think they'd do in this situation
 

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