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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wrabbit37" data-source="post: 55479" data-attributes="member: 865">Back in the days of second edition, a book came out about a new class: the Chronomancer.  I picked it up and loved it, but I've since lost it (I think I lent it to one of the other players) and have been completely unable to find another copy.The way they handled time-travel worked very well, even in the hands of a *RESPONSIBLE* player (I wouldn't trust that kind of power to just anyone).  One of the big points of it was that, even though the player could jump through time, they could never exist in the same time twice.  So while it was a very powerful ability, it proved to be very dangerous to use, because if ever you started to approach a time you already existed in, things started happening to mess with you and at the instant you already exist, you got sucked back out of time.An example of how this worked well in play is in a mystery.  The players knew that the culpret was going to end up attacking one of two locations, but they did not know which one.  There were not enough players to split the group evenly, so what they decided to do instead was send the chronomage into the future and watch one of the locations.  He discovered the culpret attack that night and then slipped back to the present and told the group which place to watch.  Unfortunately for the chronomage, though, he was unable to do anything in the fight, since he had already been there.  He had to sit that one out.I know a bunch of people would jump down my throat, saying that the chronomage should have been able to do things, since he was already there the first time, but if he did not go back in time again to warn the players, then the players would not have been there, so he had to do that.  He could have waited until after the fight and then gone back and told the players to have them there, but that's why I said so long as the player is responsible, I don't have a problem with chronomancy.  It's a very abusable power, but if you trust your players to use it responsibly, then there's no problem with it.Other things the chronomage could do, other than jumping through time, were using spells that would age people (higher level), a form of blink (where you actually shift your image to be a few seconds ahead or behind you making it harder to judge where you are), and an interesting way to heal, where you could shift a person's body back in time to a period before they got hurt and heal damage.Just a few thoughts.-Mike</blockquote>

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