I’ll be using the forum to develop things (and so others can suggest things by starting new topics) before including them in the main body of the site, and to discuss and amend existing site contents. The forum is a little slow yet though, so for a while I think …
I’ve been having conversations with a couple of site members, held in the posts and pages they’re working on. It seems kind of strange to be chatting back and forth in comments embedded in the post content. I’ve set up a forum to hold discussions on design and hopefully elicit …
I was talking with tussock in rec.games.frp.dnd about talent design and what various tiers mean, for practical purposes. Among other comments, I read (with [new tier names] added) Speaking of which: I flicked through the OD&D Deities, Demi-Gods, and Heroes the other day, and couldn’t help but notice they considered …
I have been reading Rule of Cool’s Legend and am starting to think that the baseline Talent Slot table may give too many talent slots to be practical. Six top-tier talents plus five of each tier below that makes for a lot of talent slots to assign. I think it …
In writing about Rime Tower over at my other blog, I realized something that might make tier definitions easier to cement in peoples’ minds. Consider a difficult living environment — arctic taiga, Saharan desert, Amazon jungle, and so on. For those with strong associations to those environments (that is, talents), …
I’ve been following John Payne’s discussion on the design of an RPG Introductory Box, including the More Thoughts About An Intro Box. I think these are valuable pieces of work, both his blog posts and an introductory ‘box set’, and I’ve been thinking about what it might look for Echelon. …
I was recently working through some mechanics and I realized that my current approach won’t work the way I want. I think it was a good decision to move to a 1..9 range for ability scores (in place of D&D’s 3..18 range). Using the actual value rather than the modifier …
I realized last night I may be trying to do this the hard way, at least as far as talent design is concerned. I’ve been trying to define talents in their entirety, up to Legendary. That’s six tiers of geometrically-increasing awesome, and it can be difficult to find good upper-end …
There was a lot of math involved in this. Done by spreadsheet, but dear gods it was a lot of work. At least it suggests that the change being proposed to Level Bonus calculations won’t lead to bad effects in Echelon. See below for detail. Old School (AD&D and BECMI) Hit …
The change I am considering to the Level Bonus (make it equal to level rather than level/2) actually has less impact on skill check DCs than it might have seemed. Evaluation by Consideration This change results in a difference of +12 in the Level Bonus at 24th level. Within a …
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