Posts regarding various design elements of Echelon.
I may have gotten lucky on my first choice of prestige class to convert. Arcane Archer actually fit the model well. Some of the other prestige classes, not so much. On closer examination it appears that many of the RSRD prestige classes can be better handled in Echelon as common …
Dwarven Defender in Echelon. This is a first draft, since it’s my first attempt at any capstone and the reasoning process needs to be debugged as well as the actual results. This is a 10-level prestige class, so corresponds to two or three capstones. It seems to me the powers …
Okay, following the process described in What are Capstone Talents, and How Do I Make Some?, I will break down the Arcane Archer prestige class and build a capstone talent. Prerequisites Elf or half-elf I am inclined to remove the racial prerequisite, I see no mechanical reason to require that …
Now that I’ve described a process for creating capstone talents from prestige classes, I think I’ll give it try using prestige classes from the Revised System Reference Document. The classes to be considered: Arcane Archer Assassin Dwarven Defender Shadowdancer On examination, I found that many of the RSRD prestige classes could …
Capstone talents are kind of tricky. Even I’ve had some trouble wrapping my brain around them, and I came up with the idea. I think there are two main reasons for this. First, they’ve changed purpose a few times. At first I had characters receive +1 to all ability scores …
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: Come up with a character concept; Choose cornerstone talents that suit the concept; Choose common talents that suit the concept; Choose capstone talents that suit the concept; Choose gear (I usually give starting characters gear that matches their talents); Choose …
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 …
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