#continuum of time

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[prokopetz]

I am looking for something in a ttrpg that seems difficult to pull off and I'm wondering if you're aware of anyone who's made something that can handle branching timelines, overwriting of timelines, and/or stable time loops as a core functionality of play.

I'm really looking for something that actually has specific mechanical rules for repeated time travel, setting things up for a future or past version of your character to complete, multiple copies of a character existing at once, etc. any advice? even a pointer of where to look for such games or something that has rules that could be bent to accommodate time travel in a way that isn't functionally "go to another location where everyone wears silly clothes" would be greatly appreciated!

The only published tabletop RPG I'm personally aware of that's taken a serious crack at game-mechanically systematising time travel the way it's depicted working in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure – which is essentially what you're describing here – is Aetherco's now-out-of-print C°ntinuum: roleplaying in The Yet.

Coincidentally, C°ntinuum is frequently cited as a justification for why no other notable game has made a serious attempt of it since.

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[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

Doodle dump because I have too many thoughts about them </3

Stupid shenanigans during their college era referencing this. Harold used to have a stupid moustache and goatee in that “I just started growing facial hair and idk what to do with it” kind of style.

Giving Melvin friends but also making him the shortest and the angriest out of the gang. He is friends with George and Harold and he hates it so much, he is entrenched in denial about it. His only two besties are each fathers of two and very much married, OF COURSE he's going to be mom/dad-friended to death.

They are judging you.

[violent138]

Time traveller Dick Grayson from the future: "Oh wow, you guys are fighting Mr.Freeze right now, I kind of remember that actually. Where are you at by now?"

Tim, figuring there's no harm: "Uh, we are kind of stuck on his location, don't suppose you'd help out?"

Dick, who has completely forgotten: "Sorry, I think that'd mess with something or another. Just know that you do figure it out." pats Tim on the back

Tim: "Great, very helpful. Also, in your time, does Freeze ever stop?"

Dick: "Stop what?"

Tim: "Trying to defrost his wife? Honestly, at this point I'd have given up, I can't imagine anyone that's worth it like that.

Dick, mentally telling himself: *do not think about the clones right now, do not think about the clones right now--*

Dick: "Well let's just keep an open mind, huh?"

[adaines-furious-feast]

I feel like, while "I'm going to the South Pole" is a joke, the South Pole will be where they end the season

A popular part of the Hollow Earth conspiracy theory is that there's a hole at the South Pole leading to the inside of the planet (although iirc the conspiracy theory seems to mix up the North and South Pole a lot).

It's not quite what I imagine Zood is based on. I think Zood is like "oh you go into the Bermuda Triangle and you end up on Zood". However, I think at least some of the crew will try to get back to the ordinary world at the end of the season, they'll fly up, up through a hole in the sky and then appear... at the South Pole.

Wealwell will make it to the South Pole

[w2nv]

Everyone tells you abt how weird Cecil is and yadda yadda but no one prepares you for Carlos I feel. Hes a marine biologist who moved to a desert. It took him a near death experience to ask his crush out. He took theatre in college. He came on radio. He spends hour choreographing TikTok dances. After being trapped 10 yrs in a desert otherworld they write an entire book abt him learning to let go after causing horrific consequences due to his studies on it to then make him IN PODCAST open a portal to that same otherworld and the only thing he can think while horrifying consequences are happening AGAIN is trying to perfectly describe the sound it makes. He stashes illegal writing utensils. He did throat surgery on himself. His idea of science is mixing bubbling coloured liquids and saying hmmm a lot. Everyone wants him. He’s a great dad. His middle name is Dave

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Rex could see it was a classic fracturing of the space time continuum, but he'd probably still get the blame.

[uzukali]

Schrödinger's spokeishere. You genuinely never know whether or not he's lying or telling the truth. Equal 50% chance that he's either joking around or being deadass

[vintage-tigre]

[joyokosuka]

what do you mean lu guang's book in the opening has a cipher that says "love's plea rehearsed as time doth glide." what do you mean it says "[f]eel bonds yearn." what do you mean it says "merciful love's uplift breaketh time's rule through death's rift." i'm going to explode.

[legendary-cookies]

Daffodil - Rebirth

[prokopetz]

What's your favorite use of time travel in a game?

[scamguy]

im trying to read post canon yoohankim fics and i can't be bothered to look for them on ao3 like...... im not going to lie a lot of it is really boring.... its fluff in a way that really doesnt appeal to my taste. uh oops I just wrote a bunch of shit in the tags

[gigjester]

if you are trapped in a time loop you are also gay. never seen a straight bitch trapped in the unforgiving grasp of time forced to experience their own death over and over to save their beloved same sex companion. because of woke.

[bylrndgm]

GOOD OMENS (2019 - ) 2.02 The Clue