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OP edited to make this header - Fighteer
edited 18th Sep '17 1:08:08 PM by Fighteer
Think of it as an "I get a bunch of free actions" spell. Whether you're going super fast or you've frozen the entire world except for yourself is irrelevant to the game mechanics, although it has certain philosophical implications.
edited 9th Jul '13 6:10:36 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"The spell Time Stop explicitly speeds the caster up, it doesn't actually stop time in an area. The description of its duration even says "1d4+1 rounds (apparent time)". It grants the caster extra rounds of preparation, which makes it the best spell ever because the action economy is king.
The whole deal with the IFC is explicitly a plot thing though.
Edit: I think the 3.0 version stopped time for everyone in an area (around 300 ft.) except for yourself. That version actually allowed you to attack people while it was stopped, so it was even more broken. Between that and 3.0 Haste it was a total Game-Breaker.
Edit2:
Time Stop, 3.5 version
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edited 9th Jul '13 6:29:01 PM by Crinias
@Crinias: Clearly I hadn't read the 3.5 version in detail.
It's a scary day where Belkar has an actual plan (has he ever done that before?) and Roy makes the effort to listen.
Makes his impending death even sadder really. Especially since we know Rich isn't going to go back on it. He's finally become something more than a selfish bloodthirsty killing machine.
Now he's a selfish bloodthirsty killing machine who cares.
One Strip! One Strip!While that statement about shippers is true, if you got those ships from the GITP forum, keep in mind that a lot of those ships were intentionally made to be as much of a Crack Pairing as possible, as part of a game that started on those forums years ago.
That said, V and Redcloak can be birds of a feather in certain ways...
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |If Redcloak hates humans for speciesism, I can only imagine how he feels about elves...
edited 9th Jul '13 8:20:13 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I'm quite curious as to what Belkar's plan is now... There doesn't seem to be much of note in that room.
I am going to take a shot in the dark here and assume I was the only one who liked that movie.
Also, I am really confused to the lay out of this pyramid. If my count is correct, then they almost ran up a stair case that would take them above the pyramid.
Also, placing a 1,000,000:1 bet on it all being another illusion, activated by the trap that Nale stepped on.
Stop caring and embrace nullness.

edited 9th Jul '13 4:24:21 PM by MusikMaestro