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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3644984" data-attributes="member: 18280">Changing the Flow of TimeWithin the universe of Doctor Who, time doesn’t always flow at the same rate for all observers.  Time can be sped up, reversed, or even halted.Accelerated Time:  This is time that runs faster than it does otherwise.  Accelerated time can rapidly age characters, as happened to the 4th Doctor in The Leisure Hive, or even destroy whole worlds.  The Dalek Time Destructor, in The Daleks’ Masterplan, was based on this principle –accelerating time to quickly age and destroy planets.  Under normal circumstances, a creature in an accelerated time field doesn’t gain any additional actions.Reverse Time:  Reverse Time flows backward.  In City of Death, for instance, Professor Kerensky was able to make a field capable of reversing a pile of chicken bones into a chicken, and then to an egg.  A reverse time field is useful for undoing things, but since this sort of temporal manipulation leads so easily to paradoxes, player characters are advised to avoid them.Time Dams:  Time Dams greatly slow, or even halt, the process of time on the object or creature they affect, without preventing it from taking actions normally.  Time dams require enormous energy to maintain – Queen Xanxia’s time dams in The Pirate Planet required the resources of whole destroyed worlds to power them. Temporal Force Fields:  By creating a slight difference in the time tracks of two regions, an impenetrable force field can be created between them.  In essence, the area of the force field is in a different time track a fraction of a second ahead of the surrounding area.</blockquote>

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