Flashback
3rd-level, Divination
- Casting time: 1 Action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Instantaneous
Casting your mind through time, you make a subtle alteration to history, allowing you to make preparations for the current situation within the last 24 hours. Describe to your GM how the precautions you took ahead of time to affect the current situation. For example, you might have packed a particular piece of gear or arranged for a distraction to occur at this exact moment. The GM might call for an ability check if the preparations are sufficiently challenging; on a failure, the spell fails and has no effect.
A Flashback’s effects are limited, as reality reasserts itself with the fewest possible changes to accommodate the alteration in history. The spell can’t remove creatures or objects from an encounter, harm a creature, or cause creatures and objects that aren’t being worn or carried by you to move. It can generally add an element to an encounter, but can’t generally subtract them. The GM decides on the extent of the Flashback’s effect.
References:
- Wizard
- Fighter (Eldritch Knight)
- Bard (Magical Secrets)
- Investigator
- Cleric
- Fighter (Eldritch Knight)
- Rogue (Arcane Trickster)
- Warmage (House of Bishops)
- Bard
- Rogue (Arcane Trickster)
- Bard (College of Lore)
- Sorcerer (Divine Soul, Good)
- Wizard (Diviner)
Sources
Valda’s Spire of Secrets (2024)