Posts regarding various design elements of Echelon.
I suppose it really has been a couple of weeks since I looked at capstones, I’m way overdue looking into cornerstones. Where common talents are typically things a character can learn, and capstone talents often mark what a character has achieved, cornerstone talents often represent what a character is. In …
Some discussion in IRC about the merits of d20 versus 3d6 for task resolution led to some examination, and the examination led to some curious conclusions. A +1 bonus on a d20 is seen as a 5% improvement, because it opens one more die value (a 5% chance) to be …
Okay, I don’t think I’ve posted on task resolution here beyond an expectation of being similar to Revised System Reference Document (RSRD) task resolution, but a post today on google+ got me thinking. That thinking was that I am not happy with how the skill system was working out. The …
So, Eldritch Knight is too boring for you, eh? Alright, I’ll take that implicit challenge. I used Martial Training rather than BAB on the assumption this was a military-oriented archetype. Each tier of the capstone also requires a Mastery talent for at least one melee weapon of your choice. Tier …
Dawnforge was one of the semi-finalists in the “new D&D setting” contest done by Wizards of the Coast about ten years ago (the one Eberron ultimately won), and ever since it was published by Fantasy Flight Publishing I’ve really liked it. This setting focuses on mythic heroism, to the point …
The Tome of Awesome collects material posted primarily by Frank Trollman and Keith (no last name provided, not me). I have seen statements from Frank that this is ‘freeware’ and ‘creative commons’, but no formal license statement in the document itself. Since I am using this as a placeholder at …
After posting the Eldritch Thread Talents earlier today, I have updated the divine talents posted a few days ago to include the domain spells. I’m not entirely certain how I want to apply them, but I have a few ideas. This means that at ‘dedicated caster’ of a particular god can, …
Green Ronin’s Advanced Player’s Manual contains an Eldritch Weaver class, and while I don’t plan to use this class, the Eldritch Threads look like they’re a pretty good fit for one model of spell casting in Echelon. This class was based around arcane spells and doesn’t dip much into divine spells. …
GreyKnight, one of the Echelon collaborators, did up a sample character. Note that most of the cornerstones and capstones are not yet defined, but I think they still suggest the shape of the character. The common talents I think are all defined, each in one of the draft talent documents. …
Okay, second draft for character creation. Nothing much has changed, really, just a couple little refinements and adding magic points (calculated in much the same way as hit points, but using Level Bonus instead of Level, and the modifier for Iron Will on magic points is smaller than the one …
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