#precog

[dailycharacteroption]

Class Feature Friday: Chronomancy Anchor (Precog Anchor)

(art by Dominik Mayer on Artstation)

 Ah, the precog, the fourth spellcasting class in Starfinder, introduced in Galactic Magic. The precog class are individuals with magical power to see the flow of time, letting them potentially see possible futures and how to guide others to those outcomes, in addition to their other magical abilities.

While there are certainly many applications for just seeing the future, ranging from long-term prophecy to seeing attacks coming to help avoid them, the precog is not just a diviner. Their ability to perceive the flow of time lets them manipulate it as well, altering it’s flow on certain beings, speeding them up or slowing them down, or even using it to attack, accelerating the effects of time and entropy to age foes to dust, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

However, all precogs need an anchor, something that acts as the source of their power and how they focus themselves, which in turn helps indicate some of their abilities.

Our first anchor we’ll be covering is chronomancy, referring to those precogs that were blessed (or cursed) with their abilities by a powerful being with a connection to time and it’s manipulation. Beings like the fey Eldest Shykka the Many, one of the many strange entities that dwell in the Dimension of Time like Ilee and siktemporae.

This power might have been directly granted, or perhaps inherited. Either way, these chronomancers likely view their powers as a mystical art to master rather than some innate ability that they struggle to control, though obviously there are exceptions. Either way, they may find their greatest insights in hidden occult lore associated with past (or future) chronomancers and the like.

 One of the distinct abilities of the precog is their ability to look into the threads of fate each day and guide themselves to favorable outcomes. This is represented by their pool of paradox dice, that they roll and record at the beginning of each day, choosing to substitute those recorded numbers on certain rolls. As they grow in power, precogs can use paradoxes on more and more things, but their anchor adds to that list, and once per day when they use a paradox on one of those focused areas, they regain a new paradox afterwards. In the case of chronomancers, their focal paradox lies in controlling their own magic, as well as one skill of their choice, both of which reflect their focus on mastering the flow of time and other skills.

Over time, their mastery improves, and these prophets learn to slow down time in their immediate vicinity just enough to possibly prevent foes from reacting to their actions or those of their allies. This is useful for getting the precog out of tight spots surrounded by enemies.

True masters learn to accelerate their own actions, potentially casting two spells in the space of a few moments. However, doing so puts a strain on them that makes them slow to act moments later.

The anchors don’t provide too many abilities since they can be further customized by temporal anomaly abilities, but this is a fun option for a back line precog that focuses mostly on spellcasting, what with their ability to use paradoxes to help bypass spell resistance and having an ability to duck out of close combat and cast two spells once a day. With that in mind, I’d choose options based on staying out of direct combat and supporting allies with buffs, debuffing foes, and so on.

 In the far future, time manipulation and time travel are no doubt explored both with magic and with science, so I can imagine some of these chronomancers working with technomancers and engineers eager to test the limits of those fields. However, I can also see others resisting such efforts, having taken on a guardian role of the time stream against wanton intrusion.

  On a volcanic world like Aukon, there are very few “permanent” natural wonders, most lasting a century at most before new activity destroys them. It was that fleeting nature that drove Boco, a quorlu geologist, to study chronomancy, seeking a way to be able to see one of a kind wonders that long vanished from their worlds.

 They say that time is thin on the spire of Mt. Nobrac, a dizzyingly tall and narrow spike on a distant world. Those studying the flow of time sometimes travel there to study the effects of the anomalies. However, one must be aware of the blood-drinking winged horrors that dwell near it, similar to the Niaqs of Verces.

 The party is suddenly attacked out of the blue by a mysterious figure that seems to know them, shouting something about “getting it right this time”. However, they have no memory of this being, who vanishes again once he is driven off.

#starfinder #precog #chronomancy #quorlu #niaq #Galactic Magic

[loafleyyy]

I made a ref sheet for Indra, so here, my girl!

#art #oc #oc artwork #starfinder #ttrpg #ttrpg character #ttrpg oc #artists on tumblr #oc art #ttrpg art #starfinder art #starfinder character #precog #kayal

[asta-daily]

Do you see it?

Do you see it? The paths, the ways?… the connections? Are you like me enthralled by the myriads of possible futures? Are you like me delighted to know beforehand the consequences of your choices? Are you like me pondering the outcome so much… searching for the optimum choice… …that you don't even make a single choice ?

/* Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook - Porte-mine sur carnet A6 */

Les voyez-vous ? Les chemins, les séquences ?… les connexions ? Êtes-vous comme moi excité par les myriades de futurs possibles ? Êtes-vous comme moi enthousiasmé de connaître à l'avance les conséquences de vos choix ? Êtes-vous comme moi passant votre temps à peser le pour et le contre… a chercher le meilleur choix… …que vous n'en faîte aucun ?

#face #paths #ways #precog #future #choices #outcomes

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1992, civilians were living on the moon. Psi based powers were common. People who were able to block telepathic powers were important in business to prevent industrial espionage. When people died they were able to continue on in a cryonic state known as “half-life”. (“Ubik” Bk)

#nerds yearbook #novel #sci fi books #ubik #philip k dick #pkd #1992 #paranormal #psychic #joe chip #precog #half life #cyrogenic #jory miller #stanton mick #glen runciter

[woadgeart]

I made a silly little precog for starfinder!

#art #digital art #artists on tumblr #gunslinger #guns #gun #starfinder #ttrpg #oc #original character #precog

[gravityofforteana]

Abstract Meta-analyses of experiments investigating human behavioral and physiological reactions to unpredictable future events suggest the existence of a poorly understood ability to “feel the future.” Is this effect reflected in sentiment metrics based on social media posts? To find out, analysis of 13 years of daily Twitter sentiment data in 10 languages was examined two weeks prior to events assessed as significantly negative and unpredictable, including acts of terrorism, mass shootings, unexpected deaths of celebrities, etc. Results of the analysis was statistically significant (p = 0.001), suggesting the existence of a form of collective presentiment.

#precog #collective conscious #psi

[gravity-rainbow]

It is a well-known fact that through their creations artists often anticipate what is to come-sometimes one or two generations later-in other sectors of social and cultural life.

Eliade

#eliade #precog #art

[elgaberino-mcoc]

DESTINY (IRENE ADLER) has been added to the #MCOC Wishlist 

@KabamMiike you mentioned her powers could be hard to translate, but the Senator Kelly panel alone should give @MarvelChampions designers ideas. Her combat skill on the power grid is good! - OG

- Other Gabe Senior Editor, MCOC Wishlist

#Destiny #Irene Adler #mcoc class mutant #female #precog #projectiles #International Women's Day #Brotherhood #terrorist #crossbow #pride #additions #recent rank #Wishlist Cleanup #Kabam #Black Womb Project #Freedom Force

[virgulaleal]

ovivim vai ter rollback netcode ou vai ser injogável?

Boa pergunta! Estaremos introduzindo uma nova tecnologia chamada "rollforward". Funciona assim: três gêmeos geneticamente manipulados boiam em uma piscina rasa de fluido amniótico sob o efeito de entorpecentes que os isolam de qualquer estímulo externo; os gêmeos sonham, e seus sonhos prevêem o futuro, todas as possibilidades, todas as jogadas, essa informação é lida com eletrodos intracraniais e distribuída para nossa equipe de gerenciamento de dados, que manualmente transcreve cada possibilidade para uma planilha no Google Sheets, que é por fim acessada remotamente pelo jogo para manter sua experiência de jogo lisa e sem atrasos!

#ovivim #gamedev #godot engine #precog #jogo joia #rollback #ovivim não vai ter multiplayer fora a conexão com a twitch

[yusukeide]

広報、記録映像撮影、制作

#2023 #ivent #translationforall #precog #theaterforall #PR

[yolydreams]

I had a dream in the past week that I was riding a tsunami which repeated in a movie I found I only saw the trailer for, I didn't like how the lady was floating within it, not that I needed it to be realistic but the idea is there's usually an incredible amount of debris so you end up floating on top. It was one of those cgi type waves and stories high, then something about it on the Weather Channel. Crickets did repeat on a YouTube video, like I said, things usually do.

Last night there were a few things, like a college with the campus having a vast front lawn, getting my school ID, losing a booklet of friend's contacts complete with really nice pictures, and then looking for it, that kinda boring regular stuff (like this week having a conversation with a lady on piggy back about favorite snacks, etc), not super notable.

Probably from watching Chaos Walking (2021). (I think its been over ten films catching up this past week, some became a franchise, Out of the Dark, Sweetheart, the Hobbit, Rings, Slenderman, Skylines; I forget, there some more)... Anyways, I was suddenly in the ocean with a woman and her thoughts were being narrated audibly in the water. She was on about how the sands in the ocean were depleting, very mysterious. A hole in the ocean opened up and the floor began receding into it. We panicked to shore then a bulge like a Hobbit-home-top started appearing on the surface of the water, we knew the water had to go somewhere and sure enough we were racing away from it on foot from the water. We climbed a cliff to get to safety. It was night, the moon lit up the beach and the crowd of people on it.

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"My body goes over the ocean, bring back my body to me...". Is the second thing I experienced after turning on Beyond Slenderman just now. Of course I hadn't seen it yet, until after telling you my dream above. Piano playing repeated was the first thing. Finished that.

Some talking over exact to what someone else is saying. The housemates still tell back what I think or just happened. The past few nights I've been hearing disembodied voices in the facial region then moving off into the walls. I generally describe it as atmospheric, indoors to the ceiling and outside closer to the sky, maybe 100+ ft. My telepaths like the dreams usually, we haven't discussed their roles in them, but the know them historically and waking visions. They'll say, "I like that one". They're very art-surreal. It turns out the film genre "surreal" is not the same as the art form. Surreal films are like warped dreams. I hope I get to find something. Getting out of a hard day of work school or whatever to tragedy sucks.

#precog #dream

[goatsghost]

i know this old news by now, but the fact that this issue could’ve been so cool if they actually took all the batkids’ strengths seriously and hadn’t taken out the two most op bats out in one punch — they really missed out on some amazing fight scenes

#ggw liveblog #gotham war #bruce wayne #dick grayson #duke thomas #stephanie brown #cassandra cain #tim drake #literally it’s so ridiculous how bruce’s thought process AND execution went like #‘cass is smart and duke is a meta; gotta take them out first’ #and then just DOES IT #like????? you said the words but then it clearly does not reflect in their actions #cass IS smart and perceptive; she would’ve known you’d go for her first and she’d beat the shit out of you #and duke would literally see it coming before it happened!! #they’re both basically precogs and bruce is just like ‘yep got em!’ #but jason and dick are fan favorites so they get to throw a few punches before going down #unfair

[roseworth]

part of the appeal of a jason & rose team up to me is that they are so similar personality-wise but they are soooo different in their approach to crimefighting in the sense that jason is a meticulous planner and rose does not plan more than 10 minutes ahead. jason spends weeks putting together every aspect of their plan and backup plans in case something goes wrong just for rose to ruin it by going "im gonna kick down this door and see if anyones behind it"

#rose covered in blood going 'sorry i acted impulsively. i got emotional' #so many thoughts about rose not planning ahead btw #because she doesnt really have to! her precog keeps her from getting killed in most situations #she can see 5 seconds ahead so she doesnt need to think about what might happen in 5 hours #and most of the crimefighting she does is putting out fires since she doesnt know how to take apart a system #jason in utrh has a whole plan bc he wants to fix crime in gotham from the heart of it #whereas rose in fresh hell doesnt have a plan she just really wants to kill this one guy in charge #which is why i think their teamup would be so fun #my cross to bear is that i am the only person that is always 100% correct all the time 😔✝️ #dc

[pysics]

EPIPHANY | DANGER

inspired by @idonthaveanyurlideas ‘s wild time loop-zero escape-blaseball precog trio twine masterpiece

#my art #eyestrain #blaseball #hellmouth sunbeams #nagomi nava #emmett internet #randall marijuana #PRECOG TRIO RISE #💛

[idonthaveanyurlideas]

I needed enrichment so i spent my holidays making Precog a zero escape style timeloop twine story. because the real curse is that i am cursed to never stop thinking about these three and this blessing

anyway its 43k have fun

#blaseball #moab hellmouth sunbeams #precog trio #twine #nagomi nava #emmett internet #randall marijuana

[blogishdaj]

who would win: angel-shaped alien fragment or dog-shaped angel. they are both kind of jerks.

spent way too much time on this and not satisfied how this turned out so onto the sideblog it goes >_>

edit: posted an updated version with bonus art

#worm #parahumans #simurgh worm #simurgh #pact #pact web serial #faysal anwar #faysal would probably get murked tbh but who knows #worm web serial #wildbow #would be so funny if they got locked into precog conflict like simurgh and fortuna titan in ward #blake and victoria are nervously standing offscreen #ishdaj wips #ishdaj art #otherverse