What is "apparent time"?

[Mystery Man]

Never cast timestop, but I'm going to soon, I want to make sure all my ducks are in a row.

"You are free to act for 1d4+1 rounds of apparent time."

Does this mean that 1d4+1 rounds go by for you while only one round goes by for everyone else?

Cornfuseled!

 

[Infiniti2000]

Does this mean that 1d4+1 rounds go by for you while only one round goes by for everyone else?

Close. It means that 1d4+1 rounds go by for you while no time goes by for everyone else. Per the spell description: "This spell seems to make time cease to flow for everyone but you."

Never cast timestop, but I'm going to soon, I want to make sure all my ducks are in a row.

Make sure you ready to cast time stop again as the last action in the 1d4+1 rounds.

 

[Mystery Man]

So can anyone give me a good example of a time stop spell being used?

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Cast Time Stop. Spend your time casting appropriately-timed delayed blast fireballs.

Step back.

 

[CronoDekar]

It's my initiative, and I cast Time Stop. I get 4 apparent rounds to act within the limits of the spell. Note that in "real time", all the following actions effectively happen within the standard action of casting Time Stop (or swift action if you're somehow casting it quickened).

Apparent Round 1: I cast Delayed Blast Fireball on my Ice Giant enemies, which works since it would not take affect during the Time Stop. I then move 30' toward the one that has barbarian class levels.
A. Round 2: I move in another 30' to where I am right in front of him and Gate in a Balor.
A. Round 3: I Dimension Door back to safety.
A. Round 4: I cast Stoneskin on myself just in case.

Then the spell ends, and I get a move action (if I did not take one for the real round). Everyone else acts as normal, and my DBF takes affect whenever it was set to take affect.

Personally, I wouldn't say that you could cast Time Stop within a Time Stop, since it would have to rely on apparent apparent time. Plus it'd just be a twee broken.

 

[Infiniti2000]

That's why I said ready to cast time stop, on the last round.

 

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Of course, the real fun lies in Divine Metamagic Persistent Time Stop.

 

[Three_Haligonians]

Wow, you guys are more devious than me. I never thought about using Delayed Blast Fireball... I'll remember that one.

I've always thought of Timestop as a good spell to use when you need to drink a potion, cast Haste, cast Mage Armor (if you're pathetic enough to still need Mage Armor when you can cast Timestop ).

R from Three Haligonians

 

[kanithardm]

Cast Time Stop. Spend your time casting appropriately-timed delayed blast fireballs.

Step back.

that is so sigged

 

[Romnipotent]

time stop, buff dragon, gate balor, end timestop.