Posts regarding various design elements of Echelon.
GreyKnight asked me this morning “what are we doing for hit points?” There have been a few changes to them over the last year or so, and this conversation opened the door to consider them again. I never considered making them random — I ditched that in D&D and given …
I overlooked the D&D model in my previous post on reconsidering skills, probably because I was deliberately moving away from it. However, for completeness I probably should include it for comparison. Rather than modify the existing post, I am adding it as a new one here. From my previous post, …
Here are a few starter kits for XL 5 characters (the expected starting level for player characters). They are based on traditional classes, but unlike a class these are purely advisory; they specify a sample selection of talents which you can alter or ignore at your whim. Archetypes are useful …
I have been considering skills in Echelon, and I’m not entirely sure they will work the way I want. One of the difficulties found in D&D 3.x is ‘falling off the Random Number Generator’ (RNG). It is trivial for two characters of the same level to be so far apart …
Here is an idea for a talent that describes familiars. Some of a familiar’s abilities are keyed to caster bonus rather than level bonus; this is deliberate, the intent being that characters who prioritise magical training will naturally have better ties to their familiars. Depending on how spell-like abilities tie …
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