Posts and discussion about specific talents as they are developed.
I realized not too long ago that perhaps we’re headed the wrong way with capstone talents. Most talents have something of a natural order and progression to them. As you practice and develop a combat style, you learn more specialized techniques related to the combat style. As you study a …
Over in the forum, GreyKnight commented about keystone talents and asked me a couple of questions I don’t have ready answers for. I found the question especially insightful, because it highlights something that has niggled at me off and on for a while now. If a cornerstone talent is “what …
Ray Case at google+ had some questions about keystone talents. +Keith J Davies has thrown me for a loop with his echelonD20 ruleset – his keystone idea won’t get out of my head! I am struggling with what makes a cornerstone versus what makes a capstone. Even while I am …
I’ll be using the forum to develop things (and so others can suggest things by starting new topics) before including them in the main body of the site, and to discuss and amend existing site contents. The forum is a little slow yet though, so for a while I think …
I was talking with tussock in rec.games.frp.dnd about talent design and what various tiers mean, for practical purposes. Among other comments, I read (with [new tier names] added) Speaking of which: I flicked through the OD&D Deities, Demi-Gods, and Heroes the other day, and couldn’t help but notice they considered …
Double ’em? Double ’em! I’ll quadruple ’em. Tier Benefit Free You can throw a weapon or fire a ranged weapon at normal rate (I think Echelon is removing iterative attacks, so this would normally be once per turn?). Basic You can draw a thrown/ranged weapon as a free action, or …
I realized last night I may be trying to do this the hard way, at least as far as talent design is concerned. I’ve been trying to define talents in their entirety, up to Legendary. That’s six tiers of geometrically-increasing awesome, and it can be difficult to find good upper-end …
After Doug’s suggestion this afternoon in my post on spell casting options, I put a bit of thought into an Ars Magica-style casting system in Echelon. I’ll ignore spontaneous casting for now because I don’t want to get into it, and rituals for the same reason. Right now, pondering whether Ars Magica makes …
I have written in the Talent Repository about how to convert RSRD abilities to Echelon talents, but haven’t talked about a resource that looks very useful for Echelon talents: Iron Heroes, originally presented by Monte Cook and now published by Fiery Dragon Productions. Iron Heroes is predicated on warrior-types being very much more …
Let’s see if there’s an interesting way to overhaul fear effects! Here are some existing effects. Almost all such effects use a Charisma-based Will DC, and a successful save confers 24-hour immunity (exceptions noted, spells work as usual). Existing Effects There are many ways to scare things in D&D. Several …
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