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A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover

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Goldfish said:
but I don't think it was able to follow us out of the tunnel.
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It laid the trap in the tunnel, and we're going straight back into it to do this time-loop.

Chances are, it will try to twist the paths to make sure we can't go anywhere but to it there, through past or future.
Or some other aberrant chrono-shit.

Just keep it, and the trap-site, in mind, mmkay?
 
DragonParadox said:
Well I didn't think we would be dealing with time travel and this story but it's surprisingly fun as an aside. I wouldn't want this to be the focus of any story I tell though.
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Time travel, especially if it has next to no restrictions, is a bitch to deal with. I'd strongly advise you to never go down this route again.
 
DragonParadox said:
Well I didn't think we would be dealing with time travel and this story but it's surprisingly fun as an aside. I wouldn't want this to be the focus of any story I tell though.
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It's been interesting, and it will be great to add it to our tally of amazing shit we've done, but once was plenty for me.

It's like when I flew to Taiwan to be in my buddy's wedding, lots of fun and debauchery for the week, but 14 hours on an international flight, each way, was enough to last a lifetime.
 
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DragonParadox said:
I don't really have much of an interest in it narratively. I like showing history but dreams and postcognition can do that just as well. Still it's a nice experiment.
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Just saying. I've been mulling over time-travel in stories for a good long while and in the end, it just doesn't work until it's the main focus of the story. The ramifications of time travel even being possible warp an entire setting.
 
Azel said:
Just saying. I've been mulling over time-travel in stories for a good long while and in the end, it just doesn't work until it's the main focus of the story. The ramifications of time travel even being possible warp an entire setting.
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I'm hoping this instance was only possible through very specific circumstances, including the birth of a Far Realm entity into a Material Plane deity and active effort from the future.

The Illithids are from the end of time and they only traveled untold billions of years back into the past when their were no other options to continue their existence, so it's not something which can be done casually.
 
I say, we just make the Imperial Deity hard enough that the whole reality shakes and it becomes a Whovian 'fixed point in time' and nothing before creating it could be changed :V

Azel said:
The ramifications of time travel even being possible warp an entire setting.
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Big true.
DnD's bandaid'ing the issue with Inevitables and Time Dragons, but at the core it's just a basis for any stories told by GMs.

It was fun @DragonParadox, but the implications just aren't - we have a whole setting to watch out for, and great many other stories that could be warped by this singular entity here.
Kinda makes some of us moody about things.
 
Given the recent subject matter of the thread, I have to recommend one of my favorite academic-ish books. It's Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative, by David Wittenberg, who is a lit professor at the University of Iowa. Basically an examination of how time-travel can operate narratively, delving into some history about its use and how that use has changed over the years with the popularity of different sciences at various times. I'm glossing over a lot, he covers a pretty wide range of influences (literary, cinematic, televised), but if you're at all interested in the genre, it's worth a read.
 
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