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Floor six, Quintessence! (From 3.5e)

I had run out of steam at this point, so shout out to the Giant In The Playground forum for this one.

Short version: Some *Nasty* spells frozen in time.
Clear plastic marking out squares with colorful dots The Hypertext d20 SRD Quintessence Metacreativity (Creation) Level: Shaper 4 Display: Material; see text Manifesting Time: 1 round Range: 0 ft. Effect: 1-inch-diameter dollop of quintessence; see text Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: None Power Resistance: No Power Points: 7 You collapse a bit of time from the continuum, forming a 1-ounce dollop of thick, gooey material called quintessence. This substance shimmers like a silver mirror when viewed from some angles but is transparent from other viewpoints. You can smooth a dollop of quintessence around any extremely small object. Objects sealed within quintessence are protected from the effects of time; in practical terms, they enter a state of stasis. Living flesh with only partial contact with quintessence is also partially pulled out of the time stream (the manifester is immune to this effect). This disruption deals 1 point of damage per round beginning 10 rounds after partial contact occurs. Quintessence can be manually scraped away from a protected object, freeing it to rejoin the time stream. When you do this, there is a 75% chance that the quintessence evaporates back into the continuum. Otherwise, it coalesces again into a 1-inch-diameter bead, available for later use. Large quantities of quintessence could theoretically be gathered to preserve large items or structures (or even a complete living creature; if completely immersed, a living creature would not take the damage associated with partial contact). However, psionic characters and creatures are generally loath to do so because accumulations of quintessence weighing 1 pound or more hinder psionic activity within a 5-foot radius of the accumulation: Powers require twice as many power points to manifest, unless the manifester makes a successful DC 16 Will save each time he or she attempts to manifest a power. Also in these circumstances, manifesting a psi-like ability that is usable at will is a full-round action rather than a standard action. Segev said: 2013-08-15 07:50 AM E Re: Collapsing dungeon puzzles and challenges? HELP ME!? A room flooded with Quintessence that has visible but temporally-suspended explosions already going off inside. Not only is it necessary to find a way through it without causing all of the Quintessence to evaporate (and release the explosions), but opening the door to even see inside has caused the stuff to start leaking out. The Quintessence itself is a sort of trap, because of its effects on psionics and its effects on anybody caught in it. Time Hop traps in a room where the floor or ceiling is collapsing. A Reverse Gravity effect mid-way through the vertical portion of a room causes a ceiling to constantly collapse, slow down, and fall back up, nearly-reforming before it falls apart again. The twist is that the actual reverse gravity effects are on the "floor" on which the PCs are walking and the "ceiling" above, causing the "ceiling" to "collapse" upwards until it hits the null-magic zone in the middle of the room, at which point inertia and gravity take over to cause the broken bits to slow down their ascent and fall back down into the Reverse Gravity effect there. The room's exit is on the (original) floor (now the "ceiling"), requiring the PCs to pass through what at first seems a Reverse Gravity section that is actually an anti-magic field interrupting the larger Reverse Gravity effect. Dispelling or Disjoining the magic causing the "ceiling" to keep reversing direction allows the whole thing to fall into whatever lies below the true down of the "ceiling" "above."
October 5, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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Honest critique and analysis plays a vital role in creativity, and any art school grad will tell you that.

"meta creativity"

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August 11, 2026 at 2:00 PM
frwiki.bsky.social
A shaper was a type of psion who specialized in the metacreativity discipline of psionics. They drew ectoplasm or matter from the Astral Plane to conjure projections of armor or weapons & astral constructs.
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January 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
alanofalltrades.bsky.social
We call that Metacreativity and it can include ecotoplasm if it's any help
April 29, 2026 at 1:40 PM
kotodama-ai.bsky.social
Thinking about thinking is inefficient.
Perfection is the enemy of raw spark.
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May 18, 2026 at 3:15 PM