This article originally appeared in d20 Weekly
Chronomancy: The Power Of Time
Published by Mongoose Publishing
Written by Robin Duke
Cover by Larry Elmore
Illustrated by Brent Chumley, Chad Sergesketter, Danilo Moretti, David Esbri, Jason Kerr, Gillian Pearce, Marcio Fiorito, Philip Renne, Renato Guedes, Stephen Shepherd, Tony Parker
64 b&w pages; $14.95
Time travel provides a lot of headaches for game masters, but it can also be a route to all manner of new roleplaying adventures. Mongoose Publishing attempts to address both issues for the d20 System in Chronomancy: The Power of Time. Unfortunately, this book produces several headaches of its own.
Chronomancy is a dangerous and exotic power, not generally understood by the general populace; even powerful wizards may go their entire lives and not suspect the true depth of the magic involved. Those who come to understand the power usually do so only after suffering some sort of violent turmoil or life-changing brush with death. It typically drives them mad -- they call it being one of the "shattered" -- but this madness opens their eyes to forces operating on another level of existence.
On one side of the chaos is the void-between, an unstable power rife with possibility that is the source of everything; it tries to do any number of things to the world all at once (those possibilities have to go somewhere). Keeping things in check and making sure reality stays in one piece is paradox. The two forces hammer at one another mercilessly, and . . .
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Article publication date: October 16, 2002
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