d20 Dark Quest Temporality.pdf

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CREDITS................................................................................................................................. 1

INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. 3

1. PERCEPTIONS OF TIME .................................................................................................. 4

2. WHERE TO BEGIN? ........................................................................................................... 6

3. TEMPORAL MECHANICS ................................................................................................ 8

Languages rough Time ................................................................................................. 8

Who Can Do It? ............................................................................................................... 8

Getting ere Is Half the Fun........................................................................................... 8

Where Am I?..................................................................................................................... 9

What Do I Find?...............................................................................................................9

Divergences: Don’t Disturb e Natives ........................................................................... 9

Keeping Continuity.......................................................................................................... 11

Going Home: Personal Consequences .............................................................................. 12

Undeﬁ ned Reality: Shifting to the Future ......................................................................... 13

Future Reliability ............................................................................................................. 13

4. RENOUNCEMENT ............................................................................................................ 14

5. REINCARNATED CHARACTERS ..................................................................................... 15

Reincarnated Origins........................................................................................................ 16

6. PRESTIGE CLASSES .......................................................................................................... 18

Fated................................................................................................................................. 18

Temporalist ...................................................................................................................... 20

7. SKILLS & FEATS ................................................................................................................ 22

8. EQUIPMENT IN THE CONTINUUM.................................................................................................. 28

9. NEW SPELLS ...................................................................................................................... 32

10. NEW MAGIC ITEMS ........................................................................................................ 65

11. TEMPORALITY AND YOUR GAME ............................................................................... 76

12. GEOGRAPHY OF TIME................................................................................................... 79

Sample Haven: Roanoke, the Lost Colony........................................................................ 82

13. TEMPORALITY AS YOUR CAMPAIGN.......................................................................... 94

14. WEAPONS BY GENRE ..................................................................................................... 101

15. ALLIES AND ENEMIES ACROSS TIME ......................................................................... 127

16. 25 ADVENTURE IDEAS................................................................................................... 136

17. CAMPAIGN IDEAS ........................................................................................................... 139

18. NEW MONSTERS............................................................................................................. 142

OGL ......................................................................................................................................... 156

“Once upon a time…”

--Anonymous, recorded from 1595

book espouses. Why totally reinvent

a spell that already exists in another

source? So besides a vast toolbox of

timely ideas, you also get the best

Open Game Content spells out there

concerning the subject. And this is, in

part, what this book is all about—using the

multitude of d20 products in the marketplace

that you already own. Have you had a scenario

or character concept which just didn’t ﬁ t into

your current campaign? Use alternate Flows to

introduce the new rule in a one-shot adventure

or to explain the unique character’s origins.

ere are limitless adventure and

character ideas which Temporality conjures

up. No longer do adventures need to plod

along from Point A to Point B. Stand mun-

dane thought on its head and expand your

campaign with the power of time!

is book is not an attempt to integrate real world

theories of time travel into your game, but rather provide

a unique and easy to use toolbox of ideas concerning

the subject. Temporality plays by its own rules (within

the d20 framework, of course) and can be used without

prior knowledge of time travel concepts or theories. Any

discussion of traveling through time should set aside a few

moments to look at alternate realities—have you traveled

to a new world or just an alternate version of your own

formed from a divergence? ere is also a brief look at

reincarnation, as well as new feats, magic items, organiza-

tions, villains, and monsters. e Continuum, which keeps

all other Flows from merging into each other, is looked at

from the perspective of safe areas called Havens—where

sections of land (usually) from the Material Plane are

replicated and its surprised inhabitants taken along for the

ride.

A large section of the book is devoted to time-

related spells. ese have been culled from many diﬀ er-

ent d20 publishers and polished to reﬂ ect the views this

“O Time! arrest your ﬂ ight, and you,

propitious hours, stay your course!”

--Alphonse de Lamartine, from Le Lac

(1820) st. 6

adventuring in a typical Fantasy Age

(or relatively close) time period. e

further into the future your character

is, the more likely those he encounters

know the standard measurements of, and

can accurately gauge, time (either on their

own or with the aid of a watch or clock).

is constant holds true no matter what race

the character is dealing with. But while it is

measured the same by non-human races, it is

not necessarily perceived the same way.

Humans place a great deal of importance

on time. ey never seem to have enough of

it, always bustling about from place to place

in a never ending quest to…well, to do

something, that’s for sure. is is as true for

the real world as it is for a roleplaying game.

But how do the other races feel about

time? Let’s have a look at the Age tables

in the PHB. You can see that half-orcs

are typically the shortest lived race, but

humans are right behind them. Halﬂ ings

can live up to 100 more years than humans

while gnomes, dwarves, and elves grow so old

that the maximum age die roll is given in

percentile. ese latter three races (especially

the elves) certainly place less emphasis on

time than the rest of the humanoids. ey

are creatures that can aﬀ ord to be patient and

cautious when deciding how best to spend

their lives.

Humans and half-orcs, with but a fraction of

that time as mortals, must decide how they are

going to live their lives and then go about it at a

rush to ensure all of their goals become a reality.

Unfortunately, a quick pace often makes for sloppy

work and a tired body. Humans and half-orcs ﬁ nd

their lives so rushed that they rarely accomplish a self-

established life goal, preferring to rest when not forced

to work. It is no wonder that the longer-lived races see

the shorter-lived ones as confused children.

e GM, when dealing with time spells and eﬀ ects

in his game, should consider the views of the individual

caster and how his race might aﬀ ect a spell’s use. For

example, some of the spells in this book have a time com-

ponent which ages the user a number of months per spell

level. Humans might pause in using such a spell, deeming

How do intelligent creatures perceive time? Any

civilized culture needs some type of standardized time

measurement to keep order. Events must be coordinated,

farmers must know when to plant and went to sow, spell-

casters must know how long their spells will last, and so

on. When two people separate and plan to meet again, do

they do so when one manages to ﬁ nally ﬁ nd the other, or

do they agree to meet at a predetermined time? Likely the

former method was used before the advent of clocks but

much of history is exposed to the measurement of time

and has used the latter.

It all began with the observation of stellar bodies

and natural changes (such as seasons and tides). All of

these phenomena are regularly occurring, so the concept of

time is something all intelligent life can grasp. e span of

time between the night and day is measured and thereafter

broken down into more manageable chunks. Again, the

structuring of time is necessary for society to be active. So

how do we know that our roleplaying game—no matter

the time period it is set in—utilizes this perception of

time? e answer lies in the core rules themselves.

Look at the durations for items and spells. A candle

burns for 1 hour, a sunrod glows for 6 hours, and a ﬂ aming

sphere lasts for 1 round per level (or, as someone might say

in-game, “six seconds per your power magnitude”). e

fact that the game breaks the measurement of time down

into seconds speaks volumes about how the people in the

game perceive time. Spellcasters need to know exactly how

long their own spells are going to last and it is probably

helpful to know the duration of an enemy’s spells as well.

is propels spellcasters and other science-type folk into

the category of “time keepers.” Encountering this type of

person allows your character to speak as the player might in

real life—“See you back here in 10 minutes.” But if he says

the same thing to, say, a typical working class individual,

the response could be—“What’s a minute?” For non-time

keepers, your character can explain time in terms of the

most common object’s duration. Instead of “ten minutes,”

he can convey the approximate amount of time by saying,

“half of one-half a candle burn” for example.

e above example assumes your character is

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