Magic School - Chronomancy

[Lestat]

Chronomancy

Chronomancy is a spell school dedicated to the manipulation of time, a constant of the universe. It has equivalency with Conjuration, and uses Intelligence to cast.
Chronomancy features spells that may require a player to remember where a target was standing, or what something's hit points were. If at any time the sequence of events are in question the SM is encouraged to make a fair estimation in order to facilitate play. I suggest you don't worry about this sort of thing and just enjoy yourself.

Chronomancy 1

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Anchor
Chronomancy 1
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 15
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Attack, Combo-OK, Saving Throw, Somatic
Duration: One round
At the beginning of your next turn a targeted creature or object of size 9 or smaller within 10m returns to its current position. If that position can no longer be occupied they move to the nearest stable position. If the terrain has changed drastically the spell might fail. This effect may be resisted with Arcana + Willpower.

Cinema Time
Chronomancy 1
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 15
Action: Reaction Action
Keywords: Somatic, Verbal
Duration: Instant
You may use this spell as a reaction whenever you or an ally in the same scene stunts to slow down time, but just for the camera. The affected target's stunt increases by 1, to a maximum of 3 and it explodes on 9s and 10s.

Limited Temporal Increment
Chronomancy 1
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 15
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Attack, Combo-OK, Saving Throw, Somatic
Duration: Instant
A slipstream in time appears around a targeted creature or object of size 30 or smaller within 10m causing an entire round worth of time to progress for it without a moment to contemplate. Their actions are not altered, but for all other purposes they count as experiencing the effects of a round progressing. This effect may be resisted with Arcana + Willpower.

Portent
Chronomancy 1
Focus Power Test: -
Target Number: -
Action: Free Action
Keywords: Subtle
Duration: Instant
You may use this spell in place of an initiative roll for combat, and social combat. Roll 1d10 and add your Chronomancy and Intelligence.

Chronomancy 2

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Bullet Time
Chronomancy 2
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 15
Action: Reaction Action
Keywords: Somatic
Duration: Instant
You may use this spell in place of a dodge test.

Post
Chronomancy 2
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 20
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Somatic, Verbal
Duration: One scene
The target, a creature within 10m gains speed equal to your half your level (rounded up), plus one for every raise you get on the Focus Power test.

Revert
Chronomancy 2
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 20
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Attack, Combo-OK, Saving Throw, Somatic
Duration: Instant
Restores the physical structure, and location of a creature or object of size 9 or smaller within 10m to as it was one round ago. This effect only reverts their location, and hit points to its previous state. Resources, and supplies remain expended, and ongoing effects continue. You must spend 1 resource point for every hit point that might be regained or choose to let the spell only revert their location. You may only cast this spell every other round. This effect may be resisted with Arcana + Willpower.

Time Stutter
Chronomancy 2
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 20
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Subtle
Duration: Instant (E)
Time appears to be stopped for just a brief moment, allowing you to take your next action this turn unimpeded. If you can not, or do not take another action immediately following this spell, it ends. Those affected grant combat advantage, and may not take any actions until after you have made your follow up action. This spell does not provoke opportunity attacks from creatures that do not pass an Arcana + Willpower test with a TN equal to the result of your Focus Power test, and those that pass this test also resist the effects of the spell.

Chronomancy 3

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Déjà Vu
Chronomancy 3
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 30
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Saving Throw, Subtle
Duration: One round per level. (E)
The target, a creature within 10m must test Arcana + Willpower every turn, or else he must repeat the same actions he took his last turn if possible.

Reserve
Chronomancy 3
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 30
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Somatic, Verbal
Duration: See text.
You may take an additional half action on your next turn. While reserving your half action you may not use reactions, or make opportunity attacks. Reserve does not provide an additional half action if cast before combat, or social combat.

Slow
Chronomancy 3
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 30
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Material, Saving Throw, Somatic, Verbal
Duration: One round per level
The target, a creature within 10m loses a half action on each of their turns and can't normally take full actions, and has their speed halved. They may take full actions as extended actions that take one half action for two turns to complete. This effect may be resisted with Arcana + Willpower. Haste and Slow have no effect while both are active.
Material: Sand

Temporal Leash
Chronomancy 3
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 30
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Attack, Combo-OK, Focus, Saving Throw, Somatic
Duration: One round per level
You leash an object or creature of size 9 or smaller within 10m to it's current position in time. For the duration of the spell you may spend a Half Action to return the affected target to the position it originally occupied when first cast. This effect may be resisted with Arcana + Willpower each activation, ending the spell on a success.
Focus: Manacles, rope or restraints

Chronomancy 4

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Glimpse
Chronomancy 4
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 30
Action: Reaction Action
Keywords: Subtle
Duration: Instant
You look into the future, and consider one possible outcome. Choose a single action you could take immediately after casting this spell. Take the chosen action. You may then retroactively choose to not take that action, reverting any outcome. If you do, any rolls that might be repeated that round are the same, with an exception of targeting a different creature with the same action. The same rolls being made at the same target in a slightly different scenario are still the same result. Failed and successful rolls that are respectively improved or hindered must be rerolled. Further improving, or further hindering an already successful or failed roll has no effect.

Minor Paradox
Chronomancy 4
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 30
Action: Free Action
Keywords: Subtle
Duration: Instant
You may spend one hero point to change one small event you were solely involved in from the past session that would not drastically alter the current situation. For example you may instead leave your weapons at home if you are being scanned at a door, but not after your folly has created a firefight, or inversely decided to bring a weapon to an abandoned warehouse no one was guarding, but not to a secure club that would pat you down to remove it.

Time Voucher
Chronomancy 4
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 30
Action: Free Action
Keywords: Somatic, Verbal
Duration: One round
Your future self appears and performs an action for you. On your next turn the second part of this spell activates, allowing you to perform that action for your past self. You must do anything in order to complete the loop, and if you are unable to do so you spend all your actions attempting to do so followed by immediately rolling on the Perils of the Warp table. The effects of this roll can not be ignored outside of burning Hero Points to avoid death. Cast Time Voucher only on your own turn.

Time Well
Chronomancy 4
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 30
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Saving Throw, Somatic
Duration: One round
A gradient field of ever slowing time appears at a point you choose within 20m. Anything within 3 meters of the epicenter appears to stop entirely, and anything within 4-6 meters are considered under the effects of Slow once they enter, as per the spell. Creatures affected may resist with Arcana + Willpower, allowing themselves to be shunted to the nearest edge of the effect.

Chronomancy 5

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Haste
Chronomancy 5
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 35
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Material, Somatic, Verbal
Duration: One round per level
You must spend a hero point as a part of casting this spell. The target, a creature within 10m gains an additional half action on each of their turns and has their speed doubled. When the effect has subsided a wave of lethargy washes over the target, causing them to gain a level of fatigue, and suffer the effects of a Slow spell for a number of rounds equal to the time spent under Haste. Haste and Slow have no effect while both are active, and a creature does not suffer the wave of lethargy if they do not gain at least one half action from Haste.
Material: Sand

Stasis
Chronomancy 5
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 30
Action: Full Action
Keywords: Attack, Saving Throw, Somatic
Duration: Concentration (Half)
You must spend a hero point as a part of casting this spell. You lock a creature or object of size 30 or smaller within 10m inside a temporal prison as long as you concentrate and remain nearby. The target is locked in time, unable to move on from their current state. They can not be affected by anything while the spell holds. If you cast Stasis on yourself you must choose a duration at that time. This effect may be resisted with Arcana + Willpower, or by burning a hero point.

Temporal Anchor
Chronomancy 5
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 30
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Somatic, Verbal
Duration: See text.
Places a temporal anchor, allowing you to return the world to its current state as a reaction. If you use this within 1 round you must spend 1 hero point. If you use this within 1 scene you must burn 1 hero point. If you use this within 1 session you must burn 2 hero points. The only thing you may bring back from the future are your memories, and your hero points can not be restored in this way. No one may cast or use temporal anchor until you travel past the time the anchor was triggered, and triggering the anchor causes the anchor to become inert.

Time Stop
Chronomancy 5
Focus Power Test: Chronomancy + Intelligence
Target Number: 35
Action: Half Action
Keywords: Verbal
Duration: See text.
Time is stopped for a number of rounds equal to the number of hero points spent as a part of casting this spell, up to a maximum of two. During stopped time only you may act, and anything done is delayed until time has resumed.

[Lestat]

The big Haste nerf is here. It has crawled from level 3, to 4, now to 5, and it costs a Hero Point making all level 5 Chronomancy spells use hero points. Time Dilation Zone is no more, Time Well now just puts Slow on people in the secondary radius instead of acting like a slowed Time Dilation Zone.
Edit 2: Further nerf to Haste. Replaced being limited to a single half action on the turn after Haste has subsided with being under the effects of Slow for a duration equal to the rounds spent benefiting from it. Temporal Anchor is now slightly more usable when not used to ruin a session by making it a Half Action, allowing for more immediate and profitable do-overs.
Edit 3: Added a new spell in the Anchor/Revert family: Temporal Leash, an Anchor that lasts multiple rounds, and is triggered with subsequent Half Actions. Also added a new level 5 spell that doesn't use Hero Points: Out of Time. An Extended Action spell that removes you from a scene, clumsy for combat escapes, but ripe for narrative escapes on an ethereal axis.
Edit 4: Out of Time now drains Hero Points like all other level 5 spells now, leaving you with none.
Edit 5: Slow now causes you to lose a half action each turn instead of saying you can only take a half action. Added a no full action clause. Special enemies/PCs with more actions than normal now only lose the one action, but are still slowed in how fast their full actions occur.
Edit 6: Two new spells, one for 1st level, Limited Temporal Increment, and one for 5th level, Stasis. Limited Temporal Increment causes one round to progress for a target up to size 30. Stasis causes a target up to size 30 to become frozen in time while the caster concentrates.
Edit 7: Out of Time now removed. Stasis is more versatile and less strange at performing its job. As a side note the spell school has reached an aesthetically pleasing 4 spells per level. More importantly the Austin Powers clip works again and is in better quality.
Edit 8: Cinema Time now increments the stunt by 1 to a maximum of 3, and adds Volatile to the roll instead of giving +1k0 to 1 or 2 die stunts and +0k1 to a 3 die stunt. I always wanted it to increase the stunt die number for Paragon adjacent abuse, but stunts are normally the SM's domain. However I feel groping for 2 die stunts is tiring, and by nature of a teammate adding Cinema Time it should be a 2 die stunt already.
Edit 9: Swapped Volatile on Cinema Time for exploding 9s and 10s on the roll.

[ScrapyardDragon]

I just want to be certain on how time stop is supposed to work.
Let us say I spend one hero point to cast the spell at the end of my turn.
does time being stopped for a round mean I get to take another turn immediately afterwards, or would I need to spend two hero points to get that extra turn?
and what happens if I'm say, a human paragon, and stop time WITHIN the stopped time?
can another person use a delayed action to stop time when I stop time, to enter my stopped time?

[Lestat]

Typically one hero point profits one half action, two hero points profit a half action + an extra turn.
Spending one hero point means that for the rest of your turn, and the rest of the round - no one stopped may act, and time dependent phenomenon (fire, blood loss, regaining actions, being able to refire a recharge weapon) do not occur for those stopped, this subsides when your next turn begins. Two points means you finish your turn, and take another turn in stopped time, then it subsides as a new turn in normal time begins.
You can keep casting Time Stop whenever you want for however many points you can. Free action spell shenanigans aside: your Time Stop durations would begin to overlap if cast in stopped time. 2 point Time Stop > 2 point Time Stop would only get you [Half + Half + Full Turn] in stopped time, followed by a normal turn beginning. Waiting for normal time turns would avoid this (vulnerable to Counterspell, but who cares).
If someone uses Delay (Time Stop) as a response to another character's Time Stop it will happen before they can begin their Focus Power test, Delay happens first always. This wouldn't occur in "sharing stopped time", it'd be one person's spell, then the other's. A Loadstone Bionic Heart cannot have actions removed, time is still stopped, fire, blood loss and refiring recharge weapons are delayed, but they get their actions somehow. An Absolute Pocket Chrono is purpose built to be used against time effects. Anyone (even an ally) could use it each round they have Hero Points to act in the same manner as the original caster in stopped time. If somehow two people cast at an overlapping moment a Time Stop everyone would be stopped while both last. Or the SM could just have them duel, who cares.