Random Thought

[Amechra]

Basically, this is the very rudiments of a class.

Keep this in mind while you read this:
A Move action is 3 Time.
A Standard is 5 Time.
A Full-Round is 8 Time.
Swift actions are not created out of Time.

First level, this class has 8 Time a round. Basically, this just represents their normal action distribution.

Frugality (Ex): At 3rd level, and every 4 levels thereafter, you add 1 to the amount of Time you have in 1 round. For example, a level 11 <class name> has 11 Time, meaning they could perform 2 Standard actions, 1 Standard and 2 Move, 3 Move actions, or 1 Full-Round action and 1 Move a round.

Time's Eddies (Su): At 5th level, you may spend Time as an Immediate action to perform an action during someone else's place in the initiative count; this ability costs twice the normal amount of Time for that action. Every 5 levels after 5th level, the amount of Time this costs is reduced by 1; for example, an 11th level <class name> Would be able to perform either a Move or Standard action as an Immediate action.

(Ex): At ?th level, a <class name> may take another swift or immediate action per round.

So, whada ya think?

[BrokeAndDrive]

Time Dilation (Ex): You have double the amount of Time every round.

Capstone ability?

[Amechra]

That is a little strong, me thinks.

I mean, you would be able to pull off 5 standards a round, every round...
Or 8 Move actions, if you really need to walk somewhere...
Or, hell, even just go ahead and take 2 Standards and 2 Full-Round actions a round. No-one is stopping you.

I actually was also going to give them a Spare Time pool that would equal 3/4 their class level, and which they could:
-spend for class features, or
-augment your Time amount on a single turn (limited in amount)
It would be encounterly, and have no recharge.

[veekie]

Ever seen the Exalted Tick system?

[Amechra]

I take it this is similar? It draws a bit more from AD&D than that, though, since I've never read the ruleset for Exalted.

[veekie]

Well, Exalted's is related, but not the same. Theres no rounds, per se.

Combat starts at Tick 0
Each Action has a Speed. Taking an action moves you as many ticks as your Speed ahead. You can't act until you reach that next tick. When your tick comes around again, your defenses refreshes.
Actions performed on the same tick happen simultaneously.
Your first action is always Join Battle, which has a variable Speed based on your initiative roll(6-Join Battle roll in Exalted, which would translate to roughly 20-Init or so).
When you flurry(which is basically combining actions), you take the highest Speed of all the actions. Flurry also imposes a -X penalty to all actions in the flurry, where X is the number of actions in the flurry, and an additional penalty for every action in the flurry before the current action.
Each weapon determines the maximum number of times it can be used in a flurry by it's Rate.
Every weapon has a Speed, which is how fast it attacks and draws. This Speed goes to 3 at the lowest without shenanigans.
Moving is independent of other actions, you can move once every tick(so if you're flurrying a Speed 3 action you might as well throw in 3 ticks of movement), but dashing(aka running) and jumping must be flurried, to their own distance limits.

Of course the whole business is problematic when you notice that their attack resolution is a 11 step process. Goddamn.

[Amechra]

Spare Time: A <class name> has an amount of extra Spare Time equal to 3/4 their class level. This amount of Time is refreshed at the beginning of each combat, or once every 5 minutes outside of combat. A <class name> may spend this Spare Time as if it were normal Time.

Basically, at 20th level, these guys can splurge and have 28 Time for 1 round in combat. This is the equivalent of 5 Standard actions and 1 Move action.

[SneeR]

Quickened spells are swift actions, according to Complete Arcane. You'd say that seventh level is a good time for spellcasters to cast 3 spells a round?
2 quickened and one standard or full-round.

[Prime32]

See thingy.