Ganurath
2011-05-16, 12:21 PM
First of all, I know full well that the following would not be viable for PC use. This is something I imagine would be part of a psionic version of the Tippyverse. Some time ago, someone speculated as to what a psionic Tippyverse would be like, and I made an argument based on the prominence of low-level powers that a psionic Tippyverse would be better suited to reaction, fixing problems, and extraplanar colonialism. High-end powers like Genesis reinforce this by creating potentially infinite extraplanar real estate, but there's a possibility for truly limitless problem-solving potential. I believe I have something, I just need to confirm mechanical viability.
What You Need:
At least two Elan Nomads capable of manifesting 9th level power Time Regression (http://www.systemreferencedocuments.org/resources/systems/pennpaper/dnd35/soveliorsage/psionicPowersQtoW.html#time-regression), ideally with magic items that eliminate the need for sleep and a Lawful Alignment.
A clock that is flawlessly precise and can clearly indicate the second, minute, hour, day, month, and year of each moment.
Communication infrastructure that can get a message across the nation in a matter of rounds.
A basic code that indicates truly catastrophic events.
How It Works:
Catastrophy Strikes! Emergency response does what it can, and the event is communicated to one of the Elan Nomads meditating in The Clock Room. These Elans, sleepless and replete, are constantly readying actions to manifest Time Regression in response to the other telling him the coded message.
Receiving Elan conveys the message as a free action, which communicates the nature of the disaster, the location, when it will be, and how far back in time the warning needs to go. This triggers a readied action from Warning Elan, and he goes to the round before the message was received.
Warning Elan conveys the message as a free action, triggering the readied action of Receiving Elan who has yet to receive the message. Receiving Elan regresses, going to a point in time before Warning Elan had to pay XP for his own Time Regression. The pair continue to bounce the message back and forth is such a manner until the message reaches the intended time.
For simplicity's sake, the cycle stops with Warning Elan, who communicates the calamity to the emergency response people. Now having foreknowledge of the calamity, they can take action to prevent it from ever occuring, either by performing a scry-and-die on the leader of an attack, divining the source of the mishap to prevent a mistake, or reinforcing structures and evacuating the area of a natural disaster.
If things still go south, the cycle is renewed, going back even further in time and stopping with Receiving Elan, this time conveying more complex messages of action and reaction. Odds are a permanent mindlink item between the Nomads is involved, shift rotations to avoid mind-numbing boredom, and Seers supporting the communication infrastructure figuring out the source of adaptive threats.
So, Playground: Can multiple manifesters using Time Regression bypass both the XP cost and the 1 round regression limit through committed coordination?
What You Need:
At least two Elan Nomads capable of manifesting 9th level power Time Regression (http://www.systemreferencedocuments.org/resources/systems/pennpaper/dnd35/soveliorsage/psionicPowersQtoW.html#time-regression), ideally with magic items that eliminate the need for sleep and a Lawful Alignment.
A clock that is flawlessly precise and can clearly indicate the second, minute, hour, day, month, and year of each moment.
Communication infrastructure that can get a message across the nation in a matter of rounds.
A basic code that indicates truly catastrophic events.
How It Works:
Catastrophy Strikes! Emergency response does what it can, and the event is communicated to one of the Elan Nomads meditating in The Clock Room. These Elans, sleepless and replete, are constantly readying actions to manifest Time Regression in response to the other telling him the coded message.
Receiving Elan conveys the message as a free action, which communicates the nature of the disaster, the location, when it will be, and how far back in time the warning needs to go. This triggers a readied action from Warning Elan, and he goes to the round before the message was received.
Warning Elan conveys the message as a free action, triggering the readied action of Receiving Elan who has yet to receive the message. Receiving Elan regresses, going to a point in time before Warning Elan had to pay XP for his own Time Regression. The pair continue to bounce the message back and forth is such a manner until the message reaches the intended time.
For simplicity's sake, the cycle stops with Warning Elan, who communicates the calamity to the emergency response people. Now having foreknowledge of the calamity, they can take action to prevent it from ever occuring, either by performing a scry-and-die on the leader of an attack, divining the source of the mishap to prevent a mistake, or reinforcing structures and evacuating the area of a natural disaster.
If things still go south, the cycle is renewed, going back even further in time and stopping with Receiving Elan, this time conveying more complex messages of action and reaction. Odds are a permanent mindlink item between the Nomads is involved, shift rotations to avoid mind-numbing boredom, and Seers supporting the communication infrastructure figuring out the source of adaptive threats.
So, Playground: Can multiple manifesters using Time Regression bypass both the XP cost and the 1 round regression limit through committed coordination?