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 …
Okay, first draft for character creation. It’s pretty simple overall: I’ve got a slew of common talents defined (at least in draft): Divine Talents from Agents of Faith, Combat Talents from FantasyCraft, and more Combat Talents from Iron Heroes mastery feats. I’ve also started a document containing new talents, including a cornerstone …
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.
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 …
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. …
Actions in Dungeons & Dragons 3.x and Pathfinder come in a wide range of types. Not-an-action, Free, Immediate, Swift, Move Equivalent, Standard, Full-Round… I think that covers all the ones that come up. Some… things done by characters don’t fit the round-based action model, such as spells that take more …
Character creation is a very important activity, since it establishes what abilities the players’ avatars bring to the table. However, it can be a fiddly pain sometimes (often, or even usually!), and I am trying to avoid that in Echelon. There are two primary considerations, building a new character and …
Echelon, being derived primarily from the Revised System Reference Document, uses a d20-based task resolution system. Pretty much all character-related actions that can pass or fail have the decision made with a single die roll: d20 + modifiers >= Difficulty Class (DC) This is about as simple as it gets, really. …
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