{"id":1670,"date":"2013-05-22T11:32:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T18:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2013-05-28T07:45:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:45:49","slug":"crime-time-a-new-power-for-better-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/2013\/05\/crime-time-a-new-power-for-better-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime-Time — A New Power for ‘Better Angels’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Better-Angels-cover-v4-front-612px\"<\/a>Written by Greg Stolze, \u00a9 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n

Crime-Time (Greed<\/i>)<\/h2>\n

This isn\u2019t quite super-speed and it\u2019s not quite time-control.\u00a0 It\u2019s more of a pause that refreshes.\u00a0 Essentially, when you activate Crime-Time, everything stops for about sixty seconds.\u00a0 Everything, that is, except you.<\/p>\n

If it were more comprehensive, this power could be used for every kind of evil, from sneaking lewd glances at people who wouldn’t give you the time of day to dabbing sarin paste up the noses of passersby.<\/p>\n

The good news for humanity is that Hellbinders with this power cannot affect frozen matter.\u00a0 Anything that\u2019s touching them and becomes \u201cunstuck in time\u201d with them remains touching them and stays unstuck.\u00a0 Flaming objects instantly go out.\u00a0 Those sarin dabs remain stuck on one\u2019s finger.\u00a0 Punching someone who\u2019s frozen is like punching a brick wall.<\/p>\n

With all these limits and restrictions in place, Crime-Time might seem less useful, but consider the advantages of compressing sixty of your seconds into an eyeblink for everyone else.\u00a0 Any physical attack that\u2019s timed later than you in a fight misses you, because you can simply get out of the way.\u00a0 You can (apparently) vanish from plain sight.\u00a0 You can hide behind the door while they search the basement and then, just as they\u2019re about to look where you are, you can freeze time, hide in the basement and continue to spy on them.\u00a0 You can\u2019t slit an unsuspecting time-frozen cop\u2019s throat, but you can run around behind him, point your gun and wait out the freeze.\u00a0 Or you can just climb on top of him and, when time comes back on, have him collapse under the sudden, unbalancing weight.<\/p>\n

Being a product of demonic magic instead of stodgy ol\u2019 science, there\u2019s no air displacement shredding the scenery and seeing light seems to work normally without any blue- or redshift.<\/p>\n

Make a Cunning <\/b>Greed <\/b><\/i>roll.\u00a0 When it goes off (assuming you\u2019re in a time-sensitive situation), you can describe about sixty seconds\u2019 worth of action that you can take without moving anything (not even opening doors!) or leaving anything behind. When the time ends, you get +1 to +3 Advantage from surprise, depending on what (exactly) you set up.\u00a0 You cannot activate Crime-Time again the same round its effect occurs.\u00a0 (That is, your GM can stop you if you\u2019re trying to just roll one pause into another without letting anyone else ever act.)\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Greg Stolze, \u00a9 2013. Crime-Time (Greed) This isn\u2019t quite super-speed and it\u2019s not quite time-control.\u00a0 It\u2019s more of a pause<\/p>\n

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