History TabletopGame / Continuum

** Narcissist averts this; a crasher with low Span can easily have more and better toys and powers than one who's spent all his favors and crash points on better Span (though he should beware PhlebotoniumMeltdown if his spanning tech is too crude).

** Narcissist averts this; a crasher with low Span can easily have more and better toys and powers than one who's spent all his favors and crash points on better Span (though he should beware PhlebotinumMeltdown if his spanning tech is too crude).

* WriteBackToTheFuture: a common solution to being "stuck" in the past while your Span recovers; the Scribes specialize in this. Also, taken to extremes, a way of "instant messaging" with fellow spanners.

* HaveWeMetYet?: While spanners normally ask for the time before talking to even long familiar spanners, encounters can sometimes be muddled enough for this to occur.

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** the Thespians specialize in disguise, and [[ParanoiaFuel periodically replace levelers or other time travelers]].

* WriteBackToTheFuture: a common solution to being "stuck" in the past while your Span recovers; the Scribes specialize in this. Also, taken to extremes, a way of "instant messaging" with fellow spanners. [[http://www.yamara.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=85#85 Have an example of this in action]].

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode has "time" in the title.

Ah, so you want me to describe {{Continuum}} here. You've picked the right [[FutureSlang chrony to frune with]], then. I'll tell you what's what.

* HandWave: Hypnosis gets used a ''lot'' when people screw up. Also, the explanation for time travel feels a lot like one of these, due to the bizarre physics. Of course, it could also just be [[UnreliableNarrator false information]], since the book is supposedly meant to help ease levelers into accepting time travel.

* TimeyWimeyBall: Surprisingly Averted. The rules of time travel are fairly straight-forward and don't deviate.

* TheSingularity: Time travel itself is the end product of one of these, taking place some time in the early Aquarian period -- sorry, around AD 2400.

* AGodAmI: The Exalted (very powerful spanners) can feel this way, since they can travel 10,000 years without needing to sleep, and they're immortal, barring accidents. Considering their power, accidents are unlikely. The Inheritors can feel this way too, and other powerful time travelers. [[spoiler:Don't even get started on the lords of Antedesertium...]]

* TimePolice: The Foxhorns are the classic version. However, the idea of a monolithic TimePolice is averted; it's everyone's job to fix Frag where they can find it.

* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:Most of the Scorpiod Kings of Antedesertium look like this. One looks like a tear in reality; another looks like a massive dome several kilometers wide. The scary part? All of them started out as ''human Narcissists.'']] The Inheritors are 'good', but match up to the trope from the sheer alien, unstoppable, and incomprehensibly more powerful viewpoint.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: The distinction between in- and out-of-character is completely smashed in the rules for advancing between Spans, since one of the requirements for advancing (which the GM is specifically instructed not to waive) is a certain amount of real-world time on the player's part playing ''Continuum''. ''Not'' necessarily with any one character.

* PaintingTheFourthWall: So much. One of the more subtle cases : several footnotes on the Inheritors advise the reader to look for further information on page 210. That's the end of the [=GM=] section, but also is labeled Time Travel in the Real World. Use of "further information not available here" and the warnings about crasher propaganda throughout the rest of the book is less subtle, but still very effective.

* ScrewDestiny: Worse than blasphemy; this is a Narcissist's attitude, and goes against reality itself. [[spoiler:According to the physical laws the Inheritors created, at least. According to the Narcissist previews, AlternateUniverses are a bit more lenient.]]

* GraysSportsAlmanac: A wide variety of possibilities. Oddly, some things that seem to be Almanacs are actually predestined. [[spoiler:No one cares about Ki-Kung-Shi getting a working airplane. Just don't let a Narcissist bring more than a quarter tank of gasoline back.]] Just don't lose your span book.

Don't expect to purchase it in its physical form - Amazon currently has two copies available, and the cheapest there is going for $349. The other one is being sold for close to a thousand.

Don't expect to purchase it in its physical form - Amazon currently has two copies available, and the cheapest there is going for $349. The other one is being sold for close to a thousand. The wiki of [[ImageBoards suptg]], where the scan originated reports that "the company who owned the RPG sued the anon who scanned it, legal shenanigans ensued, and somehow the anon came out owning the rights to Continuum."

Don't expect to purchase it in its physical form - Amazon currently has two copies available, and the cheapest there is going for $349. The other one is being sold for close to a thousand.