What if… we turn things around a bit? Roleplaying games almost all follow the same model for task resolution. You declare an action, then roll dice to see how it turns out. There might be additional rolls (such as rolling damage after seeing if your attack hits) or secondary effects …
Imagine a world in which there are four kingdoms, each associated with one of four elements. Let’s call them Wind, Stone, Flame, and Sea. People of each kingdom have an affinity for one such element and can manifest powers using that element. … there, that should cover my tracks well …
A recent conversation on Facebook got me thinking about how to handle unusual successes, where a character did better than could be reasonably expected. Originally I’d planned to use degree of success to improve results: roll higher than you need to on an attack roll, you can do additional damage, …
I had cause — procrastination, really, a man can only read so much about data warehouses and dimensional modeling in one sitting — to have another look at FantasyCraft. Specifically I reviewed the alignment system and the paths, and I found that they could be a very good fit for Echelon. …
Years ago, with the help of various commenters, I devised the tier system and the tier names. “Pre-Basic, Basic, Expert, Heroic, Master, Champion, Legendary” has been around for quite a while, but it always bothered me a bit that as much as the tier names were something of an homage …
A couple years ago I converted the aberrant bloodline to a cornerstone talent. This was implemented in the d20 model, and the advantage dice system works quite a bit differently. Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Aberrant Bloodline I’ll start by looking at the aberrant bloodline, as presented in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook. …
One last character from GreyKnight, for now. Dorchfia Dorchfia is a wild fairy, who habitually takes the form of a large black cat. She is vicious and aggressive towards “civilised” folk, whom she sees as a threat to her precious forests. She encourages the spirits of trees to grow into …
Another character from GreyKnight. Devri Vannalat Devri Vannalat is chief shaman of the Anouki tribe, who live in the frigid wastes of the distant north. His role in the tribe is to manage the tribe’s oral histories, provide healing (both supernatural and otherwise), and help locate the richest hunting/fishing grounds. …
GreyKnight felt inspired and wrote up a monster, a Svart-Alfar Wretch. Because his posts sometimes fall down, I’ve got his permission to import the creature here. Svart-Alfar Wretch, Advantage Dice Version The teeming masses of the svart-alfar lurk in caves and dark corners all over the world. Small and wiry, their …
The way the combat rules are shaping up, I need to revise hit point calculations. Again. I still don’t want to roll hit points, especially given how many levels are involved (though rolling hit points per tier has a certain appeal for dirty, gritty kinds of games… but no). After a …
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