Posts regarding various design elements of Echelon.
Progress on the Echelon Reference Series continues, and is becoming coherent enough that I can start to see how pieces may fit together in Echelon. Looking over the class features, there are many options and often several ways to model them. Talents by Likely Type I’ll group the class feature by the …
A conversation on Google+ today (spawned by Echelon Reference Series: Spells — I’m approaching 3,000 spells in this beast of a tome) brought up an interesting question. On a more serious note is Echelon going to use a structured spell design system based on this research? (I’ll have to find a …
I’ve been thinking about the Balance skill, and what it might mean in Echelon. In Pathfinder, the Balance skill from the Revised System Reference Document got folded into the Acrobatics skill along with Jump and Tumble. Overall I think this was a good change for Pathfinder, I’m not so certain …
While working on the Red Dragon series I have discovered that the hit points tend to run somewhat lower than in Pathfinder, the base system. This is in large part because there are no longer Constitution bonuses (which add up fast). This might work if damage generally runs much lower, but …
I posted about Expert Red Dragons this morning, now I think I’ll look into Heroic Red Dragons. I’m going to start diverging more with them. I’ll keep the starting configuration I have for each right now, but will grow them in different directions. The Dragon Caster will stick to smaller …
I have been accused, pretty fairly, of not providing enough concrete examples. I tend to stop when I find I have a good idea how something will look. I’m trying to get better about that. In this case, I’m going to expand on the previous post about red dragons and show …
I’ve decided that dragons really need at least two paths, martial and caster. Not all dragons should have a martial focus, so I am offering an alternate Dragon cornerstone talent to cover the difference. The various Dragon capstones will likely be written to allow either the Dragon Warrior cornerstone or …
These are a couple of very straightforward and honestly pretty boring talents, but structurally they turn up a lot. This suggests they might be better treated as ‘common elements’ used in constructing other talents (especially cornerstone and capstone) but for now I’ll write them as standalone talents. Energy Resistance You …
I was thinking today about how different dragon types might be modeled. The original thought was that the cornerstone would cover the common abilities, the color-specific parts (spell-like abilities, other special abilities) might be a common talent, then the remaining common talents could be used to flesh out general abilities …
I was originally using the Revised System Reference Document (“D&D 3.x”) as my base, but as I described in Finding a New Path, Pathfinder is richer and more accessible, and gives me more options. This is a case in point. The RSRD red dragon description is quite boring. Apart from …
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