Posts and discussion about specific talents as they are developed.
Okay, following the process described in What are Capstone Talents, and How Do I Make Some?, I will break down the Arcane Archer prestige class and build a capstone talent. Prerequisites Elf or half-elf I am inclined to remove the racial prerequisite, I see no mechanical reason to require that …
Now that I’ve described a process for creating capstone talents from prestige classes, I think I’ll give it try using prestige classes from the Revised System Reference Document. The classes to be considered: Arcane Archer Assassin Dwarven Defender Shadowdancer On examination, I found that many of the RSRD prestige classes could …
Capstone talents are kind of tricky. Even I’ve had some trouble wrapping my brain around them, and I came up with the idea. I think there are two main reasons for this. First, they’ve changed purpose a few times. At first I had characters receive +1 to all ability scores …
Ascension to godhood, apotheosis, is handled like other character development matters — using talents. The rules for this are inspired by those from Mongoose Press’ Classic Play: Book of Immortals. Talent selection in Echelon is generally pretty freeform. As far as the rules are concerned, apart from the distinction between ‘upgrading’ and …
Some new talents, including some common structural talents (Martial Training, Great Fortitude, Lightning Reflexes, Iron Will) and a cornerstone. This document is far from complete, and may well be split up as individual sections become better-populated… but it’s a start.
These talents are derived directly from FantasyCraft feat trees. FantasyCraft makes heavy use of some mechanisms that I have not decided to incorporate in Echelon yet. I will translate as I can, but will not at this time invest a lot of time in them. The talents in this document …
Agents of Faith: Crusaders of the Gods from Living Imagination Inc. provides a set of six feats for each domain described in the book. They are made available for characters of any class, but may be taken only with the feat slots gained every third character level. It is possible …
I am still working on a core rules document for Echelon, but I needed some talents in place to give the framework some content. I have several sources I will be leaning on heavily for talents: Iron Heroes (revised edition), FantasyCraft, and a supplement titled Agents of Faith: Crusaders of the Gods. …
I realized not too long ago that perhaps we’re headed the wrong way with capstone talents. Most talents have something of a natural order and progression to them. As you practice and develop a combat style, you learn more specialized techniques related to the combat style. As you study a …
Over in the forum, GreyKnight commented about keystone talents and asked me a couple of questions I don’t have ready answers for. I found the question especially insightful, because it highlights something that has niggled at me off and on for a while now. If a cornerstone talent is “what …
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