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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7441887" data-attributes="member: 29398">I've done it once or twice, with mixed results.If you can boot a character or party to a specific time - preferably a big leap from their current time - and provide the means to return only to the present time it can work quite well; and if you send them into the more-or-less-distant past they (and you!) get to live in a bit of that game-world history they otherwise only read about in your summaries.One thing I did once that worked far better than I expected was to punt a party a few centuries into the future, where they could see firsthand what a complete mess the world had become; get told how things got that way; and get some instructions on how to fix things in their present time so the awful future they were seeing wouldn't end up happening.  Then they just had to find a way back to their present time, which of course involved a lengthy bit of adventuring... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />That said, if you give them the means to controllably blip around from one time to another it's bad news - says he, who once did just this as DM and really lived to regret it.</blockquote>