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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6875566" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya. Time Stop can easily be a "I Instantly Kill Him" spell...unless your DM is a buffoon and doesn't actually want to use any sort of "campaign logic". There is nothing in the spell that stops the wizard from killing anyone...the spell just 'ends' when he does it. Yes, it will be obvious that the wizard is the person/thing that killed the King/Dark-Lord/Whatever, but at that point it's pretty much moot. Wizard: "That's it, Kind Baddie. We've tried to be reasonable with you. We tried to negotiate. Either stop your enslavement and torture of the Happy Halflings of Happyvale, or we will put an end to you and your rule!"King Baddie: "How DARE you speak to me that way! Guards! Round up ALL the halflings and flay them alive! Find this so-called wizard's friends and family and give them a place next to the little-ones! That will teach you, pesant, to mes..."Wizard: [Time Stop] ... 'I walk over to him, pull out both my +3 daggers, place the tips of both right before each of the Kings eyes, then pull/shove them deep into his skull, wiggleing and scrambling his brain matter'DM: 'Ok...as soon as the dagger tips start to pierce his eyeballs, the spell ends....but at that point it's too late. He dies with a quick scream, some unsettling gurggling sounds, and a last breath. The guards all look around...terrified of what just happened'Wizard: "OK. Right. We warned him... so...you...Magister? You want to be King now? So long as you don't follow in this dead guys footsteps...or, well, you'll follow in this guys footsteps....if you get my meaning..."All completely 'usable' for the spell. And that's not just against "NPC's". I don't care if you are 20th level with 300hps....if you get two daggers thrust directly into your eyesockets and jiggled violently around...you are dead. You don't "just take two critical dagger hits", or "roll damage"...having no intact brain simply means you are dead.There are a myriad of other things the wizard can do that doesn't involve killing. Yes, a lot of them will "end" the spell, but with 2 to 5 rounds of "do whatever I want"...man, that is magical power!To put it in perspective, what would YOU, actual flesh and blood real life poster here on EnWorld be able to do to enhance your life if you could do this once per day? Think about it. You could make yourself rich (probably a million ways), you could steal secrets, you could find out secrets, you could save lives, etc. Walk into a bank...Time Stop...quickly grab a few wads of hundreds...get back in line...POOF! See a criminal running away from a scene...Time Stop...move car/dumpster/whatever in front of him...POOF! See some totally drunk guy start to get behind the wheel of his car...Time Stop...flatten all tires. Curious to see what your boss was writing about you in 'the report'...Time Stop...go into room, get report, leave room.  The list goes on and on an on. So long as your action doesn't affect the actual person, or an object that they are wearing or carrying, you're free to do as you please...for 12 to 30 seconds. With no interference from anything around you...12 to 30 seconds is a LOT of 'time'.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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