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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sylrae" data-source="post: 3911528" data-attributes="member: 48520">It always bugs me when they make new material that contradicts old material. In Forgotten Realms Time travel was quite restricted, and in 3e its not so much. This is me updating the 2e timetravel rules to 3.5. Tell me what you think.--------------------------------------------------------------------------Forgotten Realms Time Travel Updated to 3eTime TravelTime travel has been possible both in the past and present Realms, but it is never easy, never without sacrifice, and never without consequence. Before the fall of Netheril in the Year of Sundered Webs (‐339 DR), the goddess Mystryl strictly limited time travel to the past, since she was the goddess and guardian both of magic and time. Any methods used to broach the time stream, whether they are the methods below, planar travel, spells from the Chronomancer supplement or even wishes or errands of the gods, automatically revert to the effects and limitations of Mystryl’s own Time Conduit. The travelers suffer all the drawbacks of their chosen mode of travel in addition to those of the Time Conduit, and neither of these effects can be avoided. Mystryl notices all time anomalies such as time travelers, no matter their attempted method of entry, and she either allows time travel to happen on her terms or not at all. Characters attempting to time travel in other planes and then enter the Prime Material at Toril will find they cannot pierce the dimensional barriers or crystal sphere leading to Abeir‐Toril due to Mystryl’s opposition to their alien existence in this time and place. Mystryl created the time conduit spell to allow travel through time strictly on her terms. Wizards who sought to bypass her rules of time travel through new spells ultimately failed. No matter their methods, they found that Mystryl’s Time Conduit spell was the only way to time travel. The official ARCANE AGE timelines of the Realms are detailed in this product and in the Netheril: Empire of Magic boxed set. Details on the Fall of Netheril are found in the How the Mighty are Fallen campaign expansion adventure, while the times that bring Cormanthyr low are in the Fall of Myth Drannor campaign accessory. Mystryl’s time travel magic is tied to annual cycles; spellcasters and their companions who traveled back through time always arrive on the first day of a new year, and the magic recalls them to their original time at the end of the last day of that year. No magic within the past or present timeline, not even antimagic shells or prismatic spheres, can prevent the recall of a time‐traveler back to his original time. There are a wide range of side effects to travel by time conduits that were far more surprising and disturbing to time‐travelers; these are noted below within thespell itself. Creatures entering the time conduit are immediately stripped of all magical items and memorized spells and psionics, though the psionics return at the standard rate of restoration. Spell books and scrolls remain intact in function; though they are slightly altered (see below). Items that do not yet exist among the culture specified within the casting or among the race to which the caster belongs (if a culture was not chosen by the caster by the use of its calendar) also disappear; for example, plate armor disappears from all folk butdwarves and elves, while arquebuses vanish from all folks’ grasp. (Refer to the Equipment section at the end of this chapter for more details on technology shifts across time.)All appropriated items are shunted into sub dimensional pockets within the time conduit itself, and all of these are returned to the proper time travelers upon the voyage home. This return trip likewise strips travelers of items they collect during their stay in the past and stores them within the time conduit; where these items go after the conclusion of the spell is unknown, though many wizards believe any time‐lost items simply drift into the Ethereal Plane. Spells that do not exist for the caster’s race in the now‐current year appear as blank pages in a caster’s spell book. Scrolls for spells or effects that do not yet exist are also blank. These blank pages are restored to normal upon reaching the caster’s own time or a point in time where the spells exist for the caster’s race (by being created during the year they currently inhabit).There is never a way to determine the precise physical destination when using a time conduit spell. The only thing for certain is that the time travelers appear somewhere in the lands of the culture they seek. Travelers seeking Netheril might arrive in the Netherese city of Thiefsward, while those seeking contemporary Cormanthyr could exit on the shores of Lake Sember in the same year. Depending on the concentration and focus of the caster, a time conduit generally lands its travelers within 100 miles of areas claimed by the chosen culture. If no culture is specifically sought, the PCs could exit the time conduit at the chosen time, but they could arrive anywhere within 500 miles of their physical location where the time conduit is cast. Time travelers always arrive during the early hours of the first day of the new year, and they always return to their own original times during the final night of the year. The arrival and return magic of the conduit focus on these days as they correspond to when mystical energies and the potent magics tied to time are at their greatest on Toril. Nothing can prevent a time traveler from being drawn back into the time conduit at theclose of the year, not even spells that negate magic or shield against its effects. Creatures return to their own time 30 days after they entered the time conduit originally, though they have physically aged one year due to their time trip.Time travelers also cannot physically exist in two places at once within the same timeline. Therefore once a creature has traveled back to a particular year (no matter where on Toril he was geographically) he can never visit that particular year again. Any attempt to do so fails utterly, and the caster (or a traveler who has visited the conduit’s exiting point in time) is hurled 1d100 years and 10d100 miles to a random time and place in Toril’s past. The material components for this spell are three scales from three different aligned ancient dragons (one from each), the dust from a slain time elemental, soil or stones from the land that is the time conduit’s destination, and knowledge of the age and time to be visited. The physical components are consumed during the casting, though the knowledge of the realm remains.Time ConduitTransmutation [Chronomancy]Level: KNOWLEDGE 9, TRAVEL 9, TIME 7, MAGIC9, Sor/Wiz 9, Brd 6Range: 30 feetComponents: V, S, MDuration: SpecialCasting Time: 1 full‐round actionUpon casting this spell, a shimmering, goldenportal appears somewhere within 30 feet of thecaster (though the caster has no control overwhere the portal appears). This golden diskappears upon the fourth round of casting, and itgrows, expanding as if it were an opening eye untilit reaches its maximum diameter. At thecompletion of the casting, the 10‐foot circularopening goes translucent as the golden light of itsedges dissipates back inside its radius, making theportal suddenly seem to lead into a long tunnelfilled with electric silver‐and‐blue flashes of light.Creatures that gaze into the opening for more thanone round see quick glimpses of their pastscascading along the walls of the tunnel, but nomemories or revisited scenes cause any damage.The portal remains for one round per level of thewizard or until the wizard enters the conduit,whichever occurs first.During the casting, the wizard names the age andyear that the time conduit is to transport thosewho enter it. For example, a wizard who wantedto visit Netheril around the time of the birth ofKarsus would state: .The conduit shall exit duringthe Shadowed Age of Netheril in the year 3163 inNetheril Years.. Bear in mind that the phrasing orthe choice of calendar is less important than thewizard’s focus on and knowledge of the time hewishes to visit and his calculating of the yearsbetween his time and the one he wishes to visit.The same time could be reached with thesephrases: The conduit shall exit during the FifthRysar of Cormanthor in the 14th winter of theCoronal Tannivh (travel to old elven realms); Theconduit shall exit during the Fourth Age ofCalimshan in the 72nd year of the rule of thePasha Vydraq (travel to ancient Calimshan); orThe conduit shall exit during the 696th yearbefore the advent of Dalereckoning (travel back2,000 years without focus on geographicdestination).DM.s Note: This spell is an extraordinarily rareand difficult spell to obtain, let alone master.Lifelong campaigns could be run by mages seekingsuch a spell, whether by acquisition from anotherwizard or researching the magic themselves.While it is certainly possible that the spell couldbe placed on a scroll in a long‐lost tomb, it is morelikely that the few upon the Realms who know thetime conduit spell must be approached and wooedby the seeking wizard. Major campaign NPCs suchas the lich Larloch, the wizards among Mystra’sChosen, the Magister or agents of Azuth, andothers might trade the knowledge of this spell forsuch costs as a favor in the future, a small errand,or the payment of a valuable possession of thecharacter (from another equally rare spell ofequivalent rank to items or worldly possessionssuch as real estate). Many of the folk who mighthave access to this spell are also quite particularover whom would learn it, and many who finallydiscover the NPC with the knowledge they covetalso find she has no desire to grant it to the PC.This situation can only be handled through roleplaying,though be warned: Once the Simbulmakes her mind up, you’ll have better luck findinga tanar’ri priest of Tyr than changing her mind…Time GatesThere are time gates on Faerûn, but their locationsremain a mystery. Ancient texts of Mystryl’s faithtalk of three gates that were created eitherthrough accidents or great fortune. Unknown toany other races on Toril, there is one other timegate, and that is known only to the High Mages ofthe elves. The time gates are older constructs thananything else in the Realms, either Arcane Age ormodern time periods. They predate the firstdwarven realm on Faerûn, and even the elvesseem in awe of their age and power.While the time gates do not require the materialcomponents of the previous spell, their effects areidentical to the time conduit spell. Bear in mindthat if a seeker walks through a time gate withoutsomething to act as a place anchor (i.e., a stonefrom a certain place, an item from a past land,etc.), the gate will (just like the spell) deposit thetraveler in a random location on Toril in the past.Discovering the location of any of the time gates isdefinitely a quest of epic proportions, with manyadventures along the way. Many adventurers havelooked hard and long for centuries, to no avail.Since none ever had ever found anything (or atleast had later developed the sense to keep quietabout it), most adventurers gave up hunting forthe fabled gates while Myth Drannor was stillaborning. The last recorded expedition to seek atime gate seems to have been in the Year ofWithered Flowers (404 DR).The first of Mystryl’s legends that reveals a hint toa time gate’s location states that it lies hiddenupon the back of the mountains, where the ice androcks touch the summer sky of Amaunator’s belt.This is actually a reference to an ancientconstellation of Amaunator that appeared in thesummer months over the Spine of the World.Adventurers could spend many months in thefrozen wastelands of the Spine searching for thedeep cave that holds the gate with no luck. Forthose few who do actually find the cave, they alsodiscover that the time gate has a guardian, anancient white dragon. She is vain, greedy, and farless crafty than she believes herself to be. She issmart enough to lay her bulk in front of the gate,and none get past her to use the gate unless theyprovide a service for her or pay her dearly in gemsand magic.The second time gate is north of Novularond,shining bright upon Misken’s Peak at Highsummer..While the Novularond range has beensearched repeatedly, adventurers have failed todiscover the gate simply because the Great Glaciersheared off Misken’s Peak centuries ago. Theportal still exists, however, though it’s much moredifficult to locate now, buried as it is deep withinthe glacial ice and moving slowly along with theglacier.The third gateway known to humans of Mystryl’sfaith (or later scholars of the same) exists atAndrio’s Peak near the Garden of Eldath. A scribeactually misspelled the original place name of thepeak, which was Andrus. The garden is an obscurehint to the city of Cedarsproke in the GuthmereForest of the Vilhon Reach. The time gate hassurvived the centuries inside Mount Andrusdespite several volcanic eruptions, shielded fromthe monstrous heat by first Mystryl’s and nowMystra’s magic.The final and most mysterious time gate lies inSynnoria, the elven realm hidden high aboveMyrloch Vale in the Moonshaes. No legends speakof it, nor do any songs, for it is a gate that no morethan ten Synnorian elves have even spoken ofsince they founded their grand city of Chrysalismillennia ago. They know what it is and what itcan do, and they simply keep a sharp eye out forany who would abuse its powers. Whether theelves have used it for themselves, they do not say.The time gate is simply the open arch at the end ofa clouded, misty cave behind the eastern falls thatfeed Mirror Lake.Cormanthyr: Empire of Elves, page 4. Updated to be more D&D 3.5 and to be in a more readable order.</blockquote>

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