Time Dilation in Dungeons & Dragons 5e

Time Dilation

7-level Psychoportive

PSP Cost 10

Time to Invoke: 1 action

Range: self

duration: 1 hour (of subject time)

This power allows the psionicist to affect the timestream itself - speeding up or slowing down its flow relative to himself. Slowing down the flow of time effectively hastes the psionicist. while speeding the time flow slows the psionicist. The amount of the dilation affects the initial cost of the power - as shown below.

Haste	Slow	Cost
x2	1/10	10
x3	1/20	11
x4	1/30	13

If the psionicist hastes himself by slowing down the timestream, he can maintain the power for a number of rounds (his own, not everyone else's) equal to his level. Movement, physical attack rates, and even spellcasting and psionic powers increase as well. However, any spell or psionic power that leaves the psionicist's accelerated timestream (for example: casting magic missile at or attempting to psionically attack a nontime-dilated target) stands a chance of being disrupted. Each time the psionicist tries to do this, he must make a Constitution saving throw (versus 10 + spell or power level used) to successfully use his spell or power in the normal timestream. If the psionicist slows himself by speeding up the timestream, the power with a 1/20 factor of dilation can make 1 hour of his own turns stretch out for 20 hour in the outside world. He can end the power at anytime, but his perceptions are slowed so much that he is automatically surprised by any enemy that approaches. Note that the psionicist consumes food and water and is affected by things like poison at his own pace, so this power can be used to reduce water consumption to zero or to slow poison. If the psionicist is maintaining any other psionic powers, they are elapsing only on his subjective rounds. For example, if a psionicist was on a ship that tank, he could use levitation and time dilation to hover over the sea until another ship came along, since he is only elapsing the duration of levitation in his own creeping time frame.

At higher levels:
When you use this science at higher level, you can slow or haste time more according to table above for each level above 7.

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