Where is it written that teleportation is instantaneous? Why couldn't teleportation just as easily require some time to accomplish?

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This is from The Fantasy Trip's "Advanced Wizard" handbook, circa 1982. TFT was similar to D&D, but had a better (more realisitic) attributes system. TFT went out of business by the time I was finishing high school, sadly.

IQ 15 SPELLS

TELEPORT (S): Instantly "blinks" wizard to another hex. He may choose any facing he likes in the new hex. He does not have to be able to see the hex he is going to, but if he comes out in a hex with a solid object, he dies - and so does the object, if it was alive. * Illusions count as solid; images disappear.



There was also a "long distance" teleport spell, also instantaneous, available to IQ 18 wizrds. (IQ 18 spells are as high as it goes in this game). LDT could take the wizard from town to town, et cetra.

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Now, this description is from the Advanced D&D Players Handbook, circa 1978 (damn I'm old )

TELEPORT (alteration)

Level: 5
Range: Touch or Self
Duration: Instantaneous
Area of Effect: special

Explanation/description: When this spell is used, the magic-user instantly transports himself or herself, along with a certain amount of aditional weight which is upon, or being touched by, the spell caster, to a well-known destination....

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Do I get my cookie, Wyrd?

Instant transport makes sence (as a tech-guy I see magic as nothing more than advanced science)

time and space are dimentions...
think of a long line where on the begin stands tokio 1400, and at the end new york 2010..
but thats in the THIRD dimention.

when steping to the fourth, one gets time... linear time, becomes square time... alowing one to step into alternative worlds. and back
the fifth will make cubic time... this alows traveling BACK in time... in a way this is the continueem, the ability to excist in any time ever excisting from the bing bang, to the end of the universe.

now if one has acces to this, one can immagine there is a path into the new connection...
one manipulates oneself to move to the higher dimentions... and than return back in our own third dimention at the desired time and location.

how can one bend this? -> vacuum is not empty, tiny univesums pop into our own, and will go away in a flash.
to us they are small, but size in that dimention is relative..
indeed an entire universe with 100000 species could excist for a billionth of a second on our very livingroom and we would never notice its come to be, and it demise.

if one knows there is a "fabric of reality" that by very high energy bursts (matter-antimatter, dark holes and such) one can transport INTO such an alternive universe....
or rip the fabric altogether and get back in on another spot.

and while our body's are third dimention.. one element in us is not : our soul, being,and such.
those who are more advanced than others, can see past the limited dimention... (later they may escant to that higher plane) but for as long as they cannot.. they MAY manipulate matter.

so yes teleportation IS instant as "one needs to step outside time itself as we know it" to make it happen.

Those are my two rules for fast-travel. My chars became very RP over time, and I stopped traveling at night, and only used fast-travel between towns. Kind of like riding in a safe merchant caravan, thus the loading screen. Or something! I'd walk back to town from Dungeons though. Even if half-dead; gameover is thrilling like that.

DAMN this is good stuff! Can I marry you? ha ha. Yea, I'm all about alternative realities and such. It only makes sense that there's more to life than what we can see, touch, hear, smell, and taste. It's impossible that 3D is all there is.