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 …
I forgot to ask an important question in yesterday’s post about the new dice mechanic. I spent lots of time looking at the chance of success, but never asked what the expected roll would be for the various combinations I looked at. Well, I can’t have that, so I made …
Now that I’ve explored the new dice mechanic a bit, it’s time to see what a character might look like. I’ll go back to Amren-ja, Warrior Queen. GreyKnight wrote her up as a test case using the d20-based rules, I later did a dice pool version, and now I’m going to do …
I was thinking at lunch today about Another Dice Mechanic, and thought I saw a few things that could be made better. Recapping Yet Another Dice Mechanic Each tier has a die associated. Pre-basic is d2, Basic is d4, Expert is d6, Heroic is d8, Master is d10, Champion is d12, …
I realized there’s another way to handle task resolution in Echelon. Okay, yes, it still uses dice, it’s not that different. A while ago — not so many blog posts, but more than a year and a half ago — I described a dice pool mechanism that I quite like and …
After letting the dice pool idea lie fallow for a while (more than 18 months, ouch) I decided to pick it up again. I think I see a few tweaks and minor improvements in how to apply it. As a refresher, all rolls are made with a number of dice …
Last night I wrote about using FASERIP ability ratings in Echelon, and examined how they match up to Echelon tier definitions (fairly well, all things considered). Now to look at how to import task resolution. I’ll start with a simple (or perhaps simplistic, I’m not terribly concerned with a precise …
Quite some time ago I dropped ability scores from Echelon. I don’t anticipate bringing back D&D/Pathfinder-style ability scores, but I toyed with a bit with the idea for the dice pool variation. Given how I consider anything past Expert tier to be outside normal human ability, and anything past Heroic tier …
I was thinking the other day about how much I appreciate HERO System from an engineering standpoint. Pretty much everything mechanical is quantized, with explicit relationships between power and limitations, and character complications. I realized it might be a useful tool for designing Echelon talents, if things line up, so …
In the earlier, d20-based design I had the normal three saving throws: Fortitude, Reflex, and Will. The bonuses scaled with level using the Level Bonus, and talents could increase them further. Saving throw talents also granted other benefits such as increased hit points and increased magic points. In switching to …
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