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<blockquote data-quote="Kugar" data-source="post: 830036" data-attributes="member: 442">Time travel... Hmmm...Tricky to pull off well.&nbsp; Here is something I did in one of my campaigns that involved undead and time travel, I know it's not what you are looking for per say but it was cool. Read twice for full affect: Start with 1 alive NPC(aNPC) and 1 undead badguy(UBG).&nbsp; 1) UBG is very aloof - but cocky and sends very strange things at the party (reason is he is manipulating events as he remembers they went the first time)aNPC - reacts normal.2) UBG manipulates party to time travel trap he has spent a long time designing.&nbsp; aNPC gets sent into distant past.3) aNPC hates past and blames heroes.4) aNPC uses knowledge of future to gain power, and tries hard to keep the past the way he remembers it.&nbsp; Avoids all type of urges to proverbially &quot;Kill Hitler&quot;5) aNPC dies and arises from death in undeath.&nbsp; Becomes UBG6) UBG pays particular attention to events surrounding aNPC and its ancestors.&nbsp; Moves behind the scenes to make sure aNPC is in a position to fall for time trap and not killed.7) After aNPC is sent to the past, UBG is totally free and no longer a slave to fate.&nbsp; For them the transformation can only happens after it is revealed, but the UBG has been harboring a grudge for millennium. I did this with the FR lich guy and it worked very well - plus it does not lead to time paradoxes, but makes the PCs more personally involved with the UBG. I can see it now - From the shadows a decayed form of a gnome shambles forward.&nbsp; As it claps its hands, flakes of black flesh and maggots fall to the ground.&nbsp; Its head cocks at an impossible angle and you feel heat from the green flames in its dead eye sockets burn your soul.&nbsp; Without opening it's mouth it speaks in a raspy voice - &quot;Congratulation! You made it here! And in a grand manner - just as I remembered.&nbsp; Unfortunately, you are no longer valuable to me.&nbsp; I have waited sooo long to destroy you.&nbsp; Don't tell me you have forgotten me already? You don't remember you old friend Priggle? Just as well, it seems the rest of the world forgot about me too ...&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kugar, post: 830036, member: 442"] Time travel... Hmmm...Tricky to pull off well. Here is something I did in one of my campaigns that involved undead and time travel, I know it's not what you are looking for per say but it was cool. Read twice for full affect: Start with 1 alive NPC(aNPC) and 1 undead badguy(UBG). 1) UBG is very aloof - but cocky and sends very strange things at the party (reason is he is manipulating events as he remembers they went the first time) aNPC - reacts normal. 2) UBG manipulates party to time travel trap he has spent a long time designing. aNPC gets sent into distant past. 3) aNPC hates past and blames heroes. 4) aNPC uses knowledge of future to gain power, and tries hard to keep the past the way he remembers it. Avoids all type of urges to proverbially "Kill Hitler" 5) aNPC dies and arises from death in undeath. Becomes UBG 6) UBG pays particular attention to events surrounding aNPC and its ancestors. Moves behind the scenes to make sure aNPC is in a position to fall for time trap and not killed. 7) After aNPC is sent to the past, UBG is totally free and no longer a slave to fate. For them the transformation can only happens after it is revealed, but the UBG has been harboring a grudge for millennium. I did this with the FR lich guy and it worked very well - plus it does not lead to time paradoxes, but makes the PCs more personally involved with the UBG. I can see it now - From the shadows a decayed form of a gnome shambles forward. As it claps its hands, flakes of black flesh and maggots fall to the ground. Its head cocks at an impossible angle and you feel heat from the green flames in its dead eye sockets burn your soul. Without opening it's mouth it speaks in a raspy voice - "Congratulation! You made it here! And in a grand manner - just as I remembered. Unfortunately, you are no longer valuable to me. I have waited sooo long to destroy you. Don't tell me you have forgotten me already? You don't remember you old friend Priggle? Just as well, it seems the rest of the world forgot about me too ..." [/QUOTE]

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