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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dandu" data-source="post: 5539775" data-attributes="member: 85158">*Sigh*Save game trick.[sblock]The Save State Psion 1.0By Tleilaxu_GholaThe Simple SummaryThis trick works by abusing time hop to send your psicrystal days forward in time, and forced dream (Magic of Eberron  104), which will return him back in time to the moment you manifested  time hop. Doing so will undo whatever caused your party to wipe, because  the psicrystal's Dream began before you time hopped it. (Presumably  while you were all alive and kicking.)There's a couple of other things you'll need to make it work, below:AbstractWith this trick one is able to create "save" game points, with a minimal  cost of 15 XP for psionic contingency. The trick allows one to  adventure for a day and then reload the save game point if something  went awry.Ingredients:Forced Dream (Magic of Eberron 104)Anticipatory Strike (Complete Psionic 78)<a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/timeHop.htm" target="_blank">Time Hop</a> (<a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/timeHopMass.htm" target="_blank">Mass version</a> lasts longer, for a full day of adventuring)<a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/timeHopMass.htm" target="_blank">Psionic Contingency</a>A Psicrystal<a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/status.htm" target="_blank">Status</a><a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/imbuewithspellability.htm" target="_blank">Imbue with Spell Ability</a><a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/metamorphosis.htm" target="_blank">Metamorphosis</a> - needed if your DM ignores Player's Handbook 177 that states a creature can suppress racial resistances/immunities to magic.Sending Stones [Optional magic item] (Complete Arcane 150, 15K per linked pair)Forced Dream: Psion/Wilder 3[Paraphrased]Any time during the 1 round/level duration (or minutes per level with 4  pp augment), you can spend a swift action to restart your turn.  As  forced dream says, "When this effect is used, everyone and everything is  reset to the state they were at when the subject's turn began. Any  spells or abilities used are available again, any damage dealt is healed  , any effects incurred are negated, any objects or creatures moved are  reset to their original position, and so on. The only exception to this  is that any power points spent to manifest forced dream are not  recovered..." Forced dream ends when the swift action to do this is  expended or when the duration expired.The TrickManifest psionic contingency on your psicrystal placing a contingent  ancipatory strike on him contingent on the event: returns to the normal  time stream from a time hop.If desired, share metamorphosis with your psicrystal to transform him  into something that isn't immune to mind-affecting compulsions. Heck you  could transform him into an object of any size if you wish.  (Player's  Handbook 177 states a creature can suppress racial resistances and  immunities to magical/psionic effects, meaning metamorphosis is just for  show.)  Have the party Cleric use imbue with spell ability on the  psicrsytal so that it can use the spell status.  (A Spell to Power  Erudite, Cerebremancer, Psychic Theurge or someone with an item can cast  status himself.)  Mix with affinity field if you wish the psicrystal to  have knowledge of all party members' condition, though this requires a  level 9 (!) power.The psicrystal casts status on you or whatever party member you choose.  This person's condition will determine whether or not the save state  will be reloaded, so choose carefully.  NOTE:  Status will NOT work  across planes!  Be careful!Manifest forced dream on your psicrystal at some time before you fear  harm will befall you. Ready a standard action to manifest a contingent  time hop on your party (+2PP per target) when the psicrystal moves.   Tell the psicrystal to do so, advancing him hours / level ahead in time.  With enough ML you can advance your psicrystal nearly a day. Adventure  on your merry way, whilst your psicrystal is outside the time stream.If your party succumbs to a TOTAL PARTY KILL, your psicrystal will still  be alive and kicking the next day. No time will pass for him and when  he comes out of the time hop and the contingency will grant him  sufficient actions to check the status of the party, provided they are  on the same plane as the psicrystal.  (If on another plane, there's a 5%  chance of failure.)  The psicrystal may also use a Sending Stone to ask  whether his master would like to reload or not.  If the party member is  under a certain condition or if the master tells the crystal to, the  save state is reloaded as the psicrystal spends a swift action to return  to the beginning of his turn, which began with you manifesting time hop  on him right before he started moving. You may now retry whatever you  failed to accomplish.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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