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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8176025" data-attributes="member: 2629">With the lack of control we have over PCs (as DMs), there are a lot of pitfalls here.&nbsp; They may feel constrained so as not to change the future, or they may feel an urge to mess with the timeline.&nbsp; To avoid this, consider the Journeyman concept of time travel to have a similar experience.&nbsp; The PCs start off at first level.&nbsp; Then encounter a temporal mechanic of some sort (Artifact, Portal, Monster, etc...) and get pushed 20 years into the future.&nbsp; They find themselves in a difficult situation, right off the bat, and are have to deal with it, but can pick up a few clues about their past while they do it.&nbsp; Then they get ripped back through time to the moment they left.&nbsp; Then the time shift repeats later, and the adjustments they made impact the future and when they jump to the future, they find themselves in a changed future.&nbsp; If they die in the future, they die in the past due to the magic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 8176025, member: 2629"] With the lack of control we have over PCs (as DMs), there are a lot of pitfalls here. They may feel constrained so as not to change the future, or they may feel an urge to mess with the timeline. To avoid this, consider the Journeyman concept of time travel to have a similar experience. The PCs start off at first level. Then encounter a temporal mechanic of some sort (Artifact, Portal, Monster, etc...) and get pushed 20 years into the future. They find themselves in a difficult situation, right off the bat, and are have to deal with it, but can pick up a few clues about their past while they do it. Then they get ripped back through time to the moment they left. Then the time shift repeats later, and the adjustments they made impact the future and when they jump to the future, they find themselves in a changed future. If they die in the future, they die in the past due to the magic. [/QUOTE]

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