Posts regarding various design elements of Echelon.
In Dragons of Echelon, Part 1: Introduction I decided that my easiest path forward for now is to model, with some changes, how dragons are currently implemented in Pathfinder. Dragon Creature Type The Dragon creature type has: I notice that breath weapons and the like are not included in the …
I was prompted by a couple conversations on Google+ to delve a little into how dragons might be implemented in Echelon. I originally looked into this a couple years ago at my other site and it’s long past time to revisit the topic. There have been a number of changes since …
I’m moving from “D&D 3.x” to Pathfinder as my base. The material is much more accessible and better structured for my use. I don’t expect the changes to what I’m doing be all that big, really, since the differences between D&D 3.x and Pathfinder are generally smaller than the changes …
I took David’s post on Sneak Attacks and the Executioner and incorporated some of the comments from our conversation below it. I do still like the token mechanic, but in this case I think there might be a better approach. Sneak Attack provides its own resource (sneak attack dice) that …
I have to wonder, how much time, in game terms, should it take to become good at something you don’t already practice? One of the biggest sticking points for people when I describe Echelon is the ability for a character to go from ‘no casting’ to ‘decent casting’, and even …
David asked at google+: Has anyone been thinking about keystones (corner and cap) at the Basic level? We have Warrior Born and Steeped in Magic cornerstones, but for a character who upgrades these to the Expert version (where adventurers start), they need to replace them with something else. I’ve been …
My original model of martial training was much as the model for caster training. A character could have a ‘Martial Training’ cornerstone talent (I was calling it “Warrior Born”) that provided half the possible Martial Training Bonus, and some generic combat-relevant benefits I never got around to defining. A character …
I had initially aimed to create a unified casting system where all casters follow the same rules and cast the same spells in the same way, then use talents to control spell access, secondary powers, and alternate casting methods. I realized while examining Knowledge skills that there is probably a …
That’s the dwarf out of the way. I’m going to try to get through the rest of the RSRD races, hopefully tonight. I hope you’ll excuse the lack of commentary in exchange for more (draft) content. RSRD Elf Traits Converting to Echelon Cornerstone Talent We already have the traits, so …
Now that I’ve described how to convert a race to a cornerstone, let’s actually try it. Creating a Cornerstone Talent from the RSRD Dwarf I’m going to work from the Revised System Reference Document, since this is likely to be readily available to most readers. I think in practice I will …
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