| iamleo |
When I cast Time Stop, I get 3 sets of 3 actions.
Between every 3 actions, a round passes for me but not for anyone else.
Nice and simple, unless I'm a conjurer.
- If I cast time stop while I have a creature summoned, do I need to spend an action sustain my summoned creature during each of these rounds? (essentially, is sustaining a thing I do to myself, or a thing I do to the summoned creature?)
- If the answer to the above is no, and I do not need to sustain during time stop, CAN I sustain? Time stop takes 3 actions to cast, which mean (assuming that I don't have or for some reason can't use effortless concentration) I won't have a spare action to sustain my creature before time stops. While time is stopped, if sustaining affects the creature rather than myself, does that mean I couldn't use one of my 9 actions to sustain it?
"After each set of actions, 1 round passes, but only for you, effects specifically targeting or affecting you, and effects you create during the stoppage."
-If I summon a creature during time stop, presumably I need to sustain it because time passes for both me and it.
-Presumably, this means a creature summoned during time stop can take its actions when I sustain it.
| mrspaghetti |
It seems pretty clear to me that anything you had summoned before casting Time Stop doesn't need (and cannot get) a Sustain, while anything you summon during the Time Stop requires a sustain as normal during the "Stopped" rounds. Such a creature summoned during the Time Stop would get actions during the Time Stop, but obviously could not use them to target or affect anything for which time is stopped, until after time resumes for them.
Bonus: I read that very specific "up to 9 actions in sets of 3 actions each" as including any reactions and/or free actions. So if you used 2 actions, then a free action, that would be a total of 3 actions, and the end of a "time-stopped round". If you then used a reaction followed by a 2-action spell, that would be another 3 actions for a grand total of 6, and the end of your second "time-stopped round". Etc.
The wording about a round passing after each set of actions wouldn't override the more specific wording about how many actions are allowed, in my opinion.
Edit: So unless you have Effortless Concentration and use that as a free action immediately prior to casting Time Stop, any Summon spells you already had active would end.