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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 4726327" data-attributes="member: 87">No need to apologize. I can be quite brutish at times unfortunately for, like most programmer types, social skills aren't my forte. There's a reason Piratecat never let me moderate in all the time I was an admin.I can understand the feeling about the schism, but I am trying to pull the game to my setting if for no other reason than I feel 4e has lost some verisimilitude. Forgotten Realms was trashed utterly, I hold no hope for Eberron to keep its identity and the default world is at once more cohesive and less cohesive than in any prior edition. I don't want my setting to lose what makes it feel different from default D&D - but I still want someone to be able to play default D&D materials in the world.For example, my world has no native dragonborn or tieflings.  If a player really wants to play one they could end up in Carthasana via a portal, but they would be unique (and likely very alone) in the world. Mechanically though they would fit in.The magic card "Time Stop" is the inspiration for this -- "End the turn." has a lot of repurcussions in that game.  In 4e "End the encounter" has a lot of repurcussions even under the current rules, and there may be future classes or powers that the wording would affect.  Hence the statement of the effect and they in parenthesis a reminder of what that effect means to the game.The spell itself is pretty scary since it's a global status dispel without a caster level check.  Only Time Spiral is scarier, but I'm not sure if I *can* translate that effect into 4e at any level -- in brief Time Spiral returns all creatures in the encounter to their status at the beginning of the encounter - even going so far as to raise the dead. It's balance in 3e was its high XP cost of 5000 XP, the same as a CR 17+ encounter. I don't know if it can balance in 4e at all.This is one of those puzzle powers I mentioned earlier.  I'm not exactly sure how this can be used. Given the points you bring up I'm even less sure of it's level assignment now.I've seen this in play in 3e - the trick is to use other Balcran spells or simple held actions to line up the parties' attacks into one massive assault. And I've had clever NPC's get the party backOriginally named Quick - Temporal Pulse is a prettier name but also the original spell was my broken character litmus test. If using Temporal Pulse over and over on a given ally is more attractive than personally acting it's an indication that your character is too weak or the character you're targetting is too powerful.Another note, this power WILL break up if the party members are different levels.  A 3rd level blue mage can get a lot of mileage by hitting a 7th level anything with this spell. This happens more often with NPC's in my own games -  Imagine a high level wizard with multiple apprentices packing this spell.  The 3e version states that a given character can only benefit from this spell once per round - and it may be worth adding to this 4e power that a given character can only be affected by this power once per encounter to stop the potential abuse.</blockquote>

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