Quartz 5

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    created: 2026-03-09T12:15:33.832-04:00
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Time Operative

Investigator: Subclass Feature
Source: Valda’s Spire of Secrets Extras (2024)

Class and Feature Progression

LevelPBFeatures
1st+2
2nd+2
3rd+2Time Operative
4th+2
5th+3
6th+3Rewind
7th+3
8th+3
9th+4
10th+4Echo of Yesterday
11th+4
12th+4
13th+5
14th+5Steal Time
15th+5
16th+5
17th+6
18th+6
19th+6
20th+6

Manipulate Time to Solve Mysteries

Time Operatives are agents from the future bestowed with a series of cryptic goals and a well of chronomantic magic. Some operatives hail from far-off utopias or crumbling apocalypses, while others simply receive a message across space and time and dedicate themselves to its mission. To prevent paradoxes, these Time Operatives receive only the barest clues pertaining to their mission. They know only the gravity of the situation, and that it is inherent upon them to change the course of history.

Subclass Features

Borrowed Time (Level 3)

Once on each of your turns, you can take an additional action. This action can only be used to take only the Attack (one attack only), Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Utilize action.

You can use this feature twice, and regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Trinkets (Level 3)

You can use the following trinkets.

Blank Tablet. As a Magic action, you touch a creature and end one condition on it: Blinded, Deafened, Paralyzed, or Poisoned. You can’t remove a condition that a creature has had for longer than 1 minute.

Quicksilver Emblem. As a Bonus Action, you can cast Longstrider without a spell slot or components.

Weightless Sphere. You can cast Feather Fall without a spell slot or components.

Rewind (Level 6)

When you make a D20 Test and fail, you can take a Bonus Action to rewind time to the moment before the attempt. Reroll the D20 Test and you must use the new roll.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Echo of Yesterday (Level 10)

You can take the Magic action to cast your senses up to 24 hours back in time at your current location. You can see and hear this location as if you were there, but the past appears dreamlike and shadowy. While perceiving the past, you can look in any direction, but you can’t move or speak. This glimpse into the past lasts for 10 minutes, but it ends early if you dismiss it (no action required).

Steal Time (Level 14)

When you finish a Short Rest or reduce an enemy to 0 Hit Points, you regain a use of your Borrowed Time.

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