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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RigaMortus" data-source="post: 981594" data-attributes="member: 1077">Maybe "philosophy" isn't the right word...  Maybe "physics" or "theories" would have been better.  But anyway...The characters in our current campaign have had some contact with the Astral Plane.  I'm not too sure on how the rules work for the Astral Plane, so I'll let you know how we are running it in our campaign (some of this might be house ruled stuff we use, as opposed to how it really works in MotP).Basically we have a magic item that lets us go into the Astral Plane.  When in the Astral Plane, everything is Timeless.  What are the affects of this Timelessness (again, this stuff may be customed to our game, so bare with me)?1) We do not age while in the Astral Plane, and we do not heal naturally (although magical healing works).2) Days still pass in the Astral Plane, so a Wizard can remem spells.  Not sure about Divine casters that need to pray at a certain time of day.3) When we exit the Astral Plane, via the same way we entered, we are instantly aged.  So if we spend 1 year in the Astral Plane, we'd be 1 year older once we leave.  If someone were to spend 1000 years in there, and then left it, they would drop dead and probably decompose and turn to ash.4) Also when we leave, we appear back on the Prime and not a second has passed there.  So while we may have been in the Astral Plane for a year, as soon as we leave it, those who saw us enter the portal will think we were in there for like 1 second.Using those "rules" I have a question that I'd like your opinions on.Let's say there is a person in the Astral Plane who has been there for about 15 years.  Let's say our party encounters them and makes friends with him.  Let's say he decided to leave the Astral Plane via the way he came in, through this magical device.  Bam, he appears back in his own time, about 15 years earlier.  Of course, the people that saw him enter the portal in his own time period think only a second went by.  Now, let's say this person comes back to the Astral, would he see us there?On the flip side, if we spend 2 days in the Prime, then go into the Astral, how much time has passed for them?My puny human brain can not comprehend this logic...</blockquote>

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