GreyKnight asked me this morning “what are we doing for hit points?” There have been a few changes to them over the last year or so, and this conversation opened the door to consider them again. I never considered making them random — I ditched that in D&D and given …
I overlooked the D&D model in my previous post on reconsidering skills, probably because I was deliberately moving away from it. However, for completeness I probably should include it for comparison. Rather than modify the existing post, I am adding it as a new one here. From my previous post, …
Here are a few starter kits for XL 5 characters (the expected starting level for player characters). They are based on traditional classes, but unlike a class these are purely advisory; they specify a sample selection of talents which you can alter or ignore at your whim. Archetypes are useful …
I have been considering skills in Echelon, and I’m not entirely sure they will work the way I want. One of the difficulties found in D&D 3.x is ‘falling off the Random Number Generator’ (RNG). It is trivial for two characters of the same level to be so far apart …
Here is an idea for a talent that describes familiars. Some of a familiar’s abilities are keyed to caster bonus rather than level bonus; this is deliberate, the intent being that characters who prioritise magical training will naturally have better ties to their familiars. Depending on how spell-like abilities tie …
Hello ♬ I’m that guy who keeps rambling on and on in the comments on KJD-IMC. Well, one of the guys who keep rambling on in the comments. Kjdavies finally got sufficiently fed up with me posting new ideas there to let me just make actual posts and be done …
I have been posting information about Echelon to my blog site for quite a while now and it is becoming somewhat incoherent. The blog is set up more or less train of thought (as I think of a topic and write for it, it gets posted), other posts are mixed …
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