Cornerstone Talent: RSRD Elf

That’s the dwarf out of the way.  I’m going to try to get through the rest of the RSRD races, hopefully tonight.  I hope you’ll excuse the lack of commentary in exchange for more (draft) content. RSRD Elf Traits +2 Dexterity, -2 Constitution. Medium: As Medium creatures, elves have no …

What are Cornerstone Talents, and How Do I Make Some?

I suppose it really has been a couple of weeks since I looked at capstones, I’m way overdue looking into cornerstones. Where common talents are typically things a character can learn, and capstone talents often mark what a character has achieved, cornerstone talents often represent what a character is.  In …

First Draft Talents: Skill Talents from the Tome of Awesome

The Tome of Awesome collects material posted primarily by Frank Trollman and Keith (no last name provided, not me). I have seen statements from Frank that this is ‘freeware’ and ‘creative commons’, but no formal license statement in the document itself. Since I am using this as a placeholder at …

Second Draft Talents: Divine Talents from Agents of Faith

After posting the Eldritch Thread Talents earlier today, I have updated the divine talents posted a few days ago to include the domain spells. I’m not entirely certain how I want to apply them, but I have a few ideas. Characters who take the divine talent domains can safely use spell …

First Draft Talents: Eldritch Thread Feats

Green Ronin’s Advanced Player’s Manual contains an Eldritch Weaver class, and while I don’t plan to use this class, the Eldritch Threads look like they’re a pretty good fit for one model of spell casting in Echelon. This class was based around arcane spells and doesn’t dip much into divine spells. …

First Draft Character Creation

Okay, first draft for character creation.  It’s pretty simple overall: Come up with a character concept; Choose cornerstone talents that suit the concept; Choose common talents that suit the concept; Choose capstone talents that suit the concept; Choose gear (I usually give starting characters gear that matches their talents); Choose …

First Draft Talents: Iron Heroes Mastery Feats

Iron Heroes (originally from Malhavoc Press, now from Fiery Dragon Press) has ‘mastery feats’, groups of related feats that can only be accessed by characters with particular ‘mastery levels’ of a sort suitable for the feats. Classes provide different progression rates in the different masteries. Some might focus on “Power …

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