{"id":"mage/power/rote/the-unpredictable-nature-of-time","type":"power","system":"rote","line":"mage","name":"The Unpredictable Nature of Time","sources":[{"source":"HDYDT","page":108}],"entries":["To start with, treat time as an imprecise series of events whose results cannot be accurately understood. Every change to an event results in other changes to related events. And so, when a player uses {@sphere Time|M20} magick to look backward, rewind time, or otherwise alter the timestream, the Storyteller can also use those events to retcon events in unpredictable ways. Sure, that Ecstatic weirdo thinks she can simply sidestep time to prevent a bullet from hitting her… and she can even succeed. When the","events replay themselves, however, her would-be shooter picks another target instead, with results that she had not expected when she rewound time.","Although the Storyteller should play fair with such variations, there’s no reason that time should hop to the tune of a single character. Events and people, after all, are unpredictable, and not even a full Master of {@sphere Time|M20} can accurately control what will happen, only assume what might happen."],"tags":["hdydt","feat"],"_qa":{"flags":[],"parser":"headed_entries","confidence":0.9,"extracted":"2026-10-12","job":"hdydt-feats"},"level":null,"_links":{"self":"/api/v1/records/mage/power/rote/the-unpredictable-nature-of-time","html":"/records/mage/power/rote/the-unpredictable-nature-of-time","parent":null,"children":"/api/v1/records/mage/power/rote/the-unpredictable-nature-of-time/children","sources":[{"abbr":"HDYDT","page":108,"folio":108,"title":"How Do You DO That?"}]},"_db":{"title":"The Unpredictable Nature of Time","props":[],"parent_id":null,"level":null,"category":null,"summary":"To start with, treat time as an imprecise series of events whose results cannot be accurately understood. Every change to an event results in other changes to related events. And so, when a player uses Time magick to","tags":["feat","hdydt"],"children":[]}}