Posts and discussion about how various pieces of Echelon work.
What if… we turn things around a bit? Roleplaying games almost all follow the same model for task resolution. You declare an action, then roll dice to see how it turns out. There might be additional rolls (such as rolling damage after seeing if your attack hits) or secondary effects …
A recent conversation on Facebook got me thinking about how to handle unusual successes, where a character did better than could be reasonably expected. Originally I’d planned to use degree of success to improve results: roll higher than you need to on an attack roll, you can do additional damage, …
I had cause — procrastination, really, a man can only read so much about data warehouses and dimensional modeling in one sitting — to have another look at FantasyCraft. Specifically I reviewed the alignment system and the paths, and I found that they could be a very good fit for Echelon. …
Years ago, with the help of various commenters, I devised the tier system and the tier names. “Pre-Basic, Basic, Expert, Heroic, Master, Champion, Legendary” has been around for quite a while, but it always bothered me a bit that as much as the tier names were something of an homage …
The way the combat rules are shaping up, I need to revise hit point calculations. Again. I still don’t want to roll hit points, especially given how many levels are involved (though rolling hit points per tier has a certain appeal for dirty, gritty kinds of games… but no). After a …
I forgot to ask an important question in yesterday’s post about the new dice mechanic. I spent lots of time looking at the chance of success, but never asked what the expected roll would be for the various combinations I looked at. Well, I can’t have that, so I made …
I was thinking at lunch today about Another Dice Mechanic, and thought I saw a few things that could be made better. Recapping Yet Another Dice Mechanic Each tier has a die associated. Pre-basic is d2, Basic is d4, Expert is d6, Heroic is d8, Master is d10, Champion is d12, …
I realized there’s another way to handle task resolution in Echelon. Okay, yes, it still uses dice, it’s not that different. A while ago — not so many blog posts, but more than a year and a half ago — I described a dice pool mechanism that I quite like and …
After letting the dice pool idea lie fallow for a while (more than 18 months, ouch) I decided to pick it up again. I think I see a few tweaks and minor improvements in how to apply it. As a refresher, all rolls are made with a number of dice …
Last night I wrote about using FASERIP ability ratings in Echelon, and examined how they match up to Echelon tier definitions (fairly well, all things considered). Now to look at how to import task resolution. I’ll start with a simple (or perhaps simplistic, I’m not terribly concerned with a precise …
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