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.
