This is mostly for the books that increase a stat by +1 every 1000 years. Besides waiting, is there anyway to "speed up" time? Like another plane or a spell
Not reliably. Best I've got is to find a fey wild portal and keep going back and forth between planes. The fey wild can either speed up or slow down time, so a day may be a minute or a year. Hopefully you can skip forward by 1000 years in only a decade or 2 of trying (you have to leave the book in a safe place in the prime material plane of course).
There are ways of living for 1000s of years to use the books multiple times.
Deep Ethereal may do something to relative time as well, or it may just be that its "difficult to track."
Knocking yourself out with some combination of permanent Feign Death, or Magic Jar and permanent Gentle Repose, might be enough to let you survive for 1000+ years with a sufficiently secure sanctum... but plane hopping is probably "quicker" and easier.
Depending on what stat you're wanting to increase, it would probably be less complicated to go find a headband of intellect or gauntlets of strength or whatever...
The sphinx also control time. Not sure if it's all Sphinx but I think the enhance sphinx has a few lair actions that control time. Pushing things 10 years forward each short rest. Safe to say a sphinx can control this ability outside of combat.... But befriending one to use its magic speed up the book for you? Good luck on that
You could always get yourself petrified and arrange for someone to reverse it a few thousand years in the future?
I like this idea. There must be a way to make this happen with glyph of warding and greater restoration. I was trying to figure it out, but I couldn't get past the part of glyph that says, "If the spell has a target, it targets the creature that triggered the glyph."
You could always get yourself petrified and arrange for someone to reverse it a few thousand years in the future?
I like this idea. There must be a way to make this happen with glyph of warding and greater restoration. I was trying to figure it out, but I couldn't get past the part of glyph that says, "If the spell has a target, it targets the creature that triggered the glyph."
I am tired from work so I apologize. Why is that making this a deal breaker? I imagine you put the glyph on a stone face. Set the trigger as the 1000 years in future. Meld into stone into the stone through the glyph. And then your friend petrified you, inside the Stone Mountain already. (Which protects your petrified body for 1000 years in a more likely way)
You could always get yourself petrified and arrange for someone to reverse it a few thousand years in the future?
I like this idea. There must be a way to make this happen with glyph of warding and greater restoration. I was trying to figure it out, but I couldn't get past the part of glyph that says, "If the spell has a target, it targets the creature that triggered the glyph."
I am tired from work so I apologize. Why is that making this a deal breaker? I imagine you put the glyph on a stone face. Set the trigger as the 1000 years in future. Meld into stone into the stone through the glyph. And then your friend petrified you, inside the Stone Mountain already. (Which protects your petrified body for 1000 years in a more likely way)
That's a good point. I kept thinking too narrowly about the trigger (as if it were a trap that someone else would have to trigger instead of a signal or condition).
The trigger could be put on the tome/manual itself and would be a creature present and petrified for 1000 years. You could probably word it such that it would restore you if anybody tried to take the tomes, but maybe it's better to store the tomes in a safer place, like a demiplane, and have the glyph inscribed somewhere else.
You could maybe just inscribe the glyph on yourself (surface is an incredibly general word) before you petrify yourself. Then there's no need for a friend as long as you're a bard (so you can take glyph, greater restoration, and flesh to stone).
might wanna also consider the fact that the 1000 yrs is relative to the book not your character. So speeding up time relative to you wouldn't help at all.
I wonder if there would be a way to cast demiplane and have time more more quickly in that smaller plane. You could just chuck the book in there and then grab it out after it has aged the 100 years and you are still the same.
This is mostly for the books that increase a stat by +1 every 1000 years. Besides waiting, is there anyway to "speed up" time? Like another plane or a spell
Not reliably. Best I've got is to find a fey wild portal and keep going back and forth between planes. The fey wild can either speed up or slow down time, so a day may be a minute or a year. Hopefully you can skip forward by 1000 years in only a decade or 2 of trying (you have to leave the book in a safe place in the prime material plane of course).
There are ways of living for 1000s of years to use the books multiple times.
Deep Ethereal may do something to relative time as well, or it may just be that its "difficult to track."
Knocking yourself out with some combination of permanent Feign Death, or Magic Jar and permanent Gentle Repose, might be enough to let you survive for 1000+ years with a sufficiently secure sanctum... but plane hopping is probably "quicker" and easier.
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I'm going to make this way harder than it needs to be.
Depending on what stat you're wanting to increase, it would probably be less complicated to go find a headband of intellect or gauntlets of strength or whatever...
The sphinx also control time. Not sure if it's all Sphinx but I think the enhance sphinx has a few lair actions that control time. Pushing things 10 years forward each short rest. Safe to say a sphinx can control this ability outside of combat.... But befriending one to use its magic speed up the book for you? Good luck on that
You could always get yourself petrified and arrange for someone to reverse it a few thousand years in the future?
I like this idea. There must be a way to make this happen with glyph of warding and greater restoration. I was trying to figure it out, but I couldn't get past the part of glyph that says, "If the spell has a target, it targets the creature that triggered the glyph."
I am tired from work so I apologize. Why is that making this a deal breaker? I imagine you put the glyph on a stone face. Set the trigger as the 1000 years in future. Meld into stone into the stone through the glyph. And then your friend petrified you, inside the Stone Mountain already. (Which protects your petrified body for 1000 years in a more likely way)
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That's a good point. I kept thinking too narrowly about the trigger (as if it were a trap that someone else would have to trigger instead of a signal or condition).
The trigger could be put on the tome/manual itself and would be a creature present and petrified for 1000 years. You could probably word it such that it would restore you if anybody tried to take the tomes, but maybe it's better to store the tomes in a safer place, like a demiplane, and have the glyph inscribed somewhere else.
You could maybe just inscribe the glyph on yourself (surface is an incredibly general word) before you petrify yourself. Then there's no need for a friend as long as you're a bard (so you can take glyph, greater restoration, and flesh to stone).
might wanna also consider the fact that the 1000 yrs is relative to the book not your character. So speeding up time relative to you wouldn't help at all.
So just to be clear, we're all talking about the manuals such as Manual of Gainful Exercise, right? The ones that recharge in 100 years?
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I'm going to make this way harder than it needs to be.
Probably, but who is going to check?
I wonder if there would be a way to cast demiplane and have time more more quickly in that smaller plane. You could just chuck the book in there and then grab it out after it has aged the 100 years and you are still the same.
Then you can create a race that could last ( at least ) for 200 - 300 years, and .................. TADAaaaaaa !!!!!!
Now you have 2 opportunities to get the BUFF.... xDD
My Ready-to-rock&roll chars:
Dertinus Tristany // Amilcar Barca // Vicenç Sacrarius // Oriol Deulofeu // Grovtuk
Is it only 100? I swore it said 1000, but when your blind as a bat....😁. That would be easier
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