Posts and discussion about specific talents as they are developed.
Imagine a world in which there are four kingdoms, each associated with one of four elements. Let’s call them Wind, Stone, Flame, and Sea. People of each kingdom have an affinity for one such element and can manifest powers using that element. … there, that should cover my tracks well …
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. …
A couple years ago I converted the aberrant bloodline to a cornerstone talent. This was implemented in the d20 model, and the advantage dice system works quite a bit differently. Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Aberrant Bloodline I’ll start by looking at the aberrant bloodline, as presented in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook. …
Quite some time ago I dropped ability scores from Echelon. I don’t anticipate bringing back D&D/Pathfinder-style ability scores, but I toyed with a bit with the idea for the dice pool variation. Given how I consider anything past Expert tier to be outside normal human ability, and anything past Heroic tier …
I was thinking the other day about how much I appreciate HERO System from an engineering standpoint. Pretty much everything mechanical is quantized, with explicit relationships between power and limitations, and character complications. I realized it might be a useful tool for designing Echelon talents, if things line up, so …
In the earlier, d20-based design I had the normal three saving throws: Fortitude, Reflex, and Will. The bonuses scaled with level using the Level Bonus, and talents could increase them further. Saving throw talents also granted other benefits such as increased hit points and increased magic points. In switching to …
I admit, I’m procrastinating a little on the Echelon Reference Series today. I let myself get distracted by the arcana talents I started working on yesterday in converting arcane schools to common talents. I wanted to see what the rest looked like, so I took some time today to finish the first …
Yesterday I described how I might convert sorcerer bloodlines to cornerstone talents. Cleric domains are a defining feature of the cleric class, but are not such a fundamental element of a character’s makeup: a cleric has more than one while a sorcerer has only a single bloodline, other classes that …
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 …
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