Comments on: RPG Blog Carnival: Time Marches On

By: Steve Rennie

Steve Rennie — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 08:37:01 +0000

What a great article. And whats even nicer, is that somewhere in deep recesses of my shelves of 2E books, I have Chronomancer. I’ve been looking into planes travel for my players, and you’ve inspired me to throw time at them too! Thanks.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:13:37 +0000

In reply to Gonzalo Campoverde. Glad to hear it :D Thanks for reading!

By: Gonzalo Campoverde

Gonzalo Campoverde — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 02:22:29 +0000

This will for sure spark my imagination in the future! (or maybe just some alternate present). You just got a new follower 😉

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:04:22 +0000

In reply to Mattwandcow.

That’s a good point re: the history of the world that you’re playing in. That didn’t even cross my mind!

Personally I think I’d be more comfortable running that kind of game in a world without a fully fleshed-out history, simply because my style of GMing lends itself to making stuff up on the fly. If I were to run a time travel game in a setting like the Forgotten Realms I think I’d quickly be overwhelmed by the lore – and, of course, you’d always have that one player who knows the setting better than you do.

Definitely an interesting thing to think about though. I might have to revisit this topic at some point in the future.

By: Mattwandcow

Mattwandcow — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:18:53 +0000

I’ve run a game called TimeWatch, that gave every player access to a time machine and sat back to watch the chaos. Very fun game.

I think timetravel in D&D is an odd thing, because the history isn’t as established as it is in other media. We can watch Back to the Future and have a general idea of what the world is like, how it has changed, but you have to have really established a world to have scenes like that. Its worth it, but it would be hard to do, I feel, almost preventively so.

still, good luck! Letting players muck with time is a bigger headache from normal.