I was prompted by a couple conversations on Google+ to delve a little into how dragons might be implemented in Echelon. I originally looked into this a couple years ago at my other site and it’s long past time to revisit the topic. There have been a number of changes since …
I’m moving from “D&D 3.x” to Pathfinder as my base. The material is much more accessible and better structured for my use. I don’t expect the changes to what I’m doing be all that big, really, since the differences between D&D 3.x and Pathfinder are generally smaller than the changes …
I’ve spoken before about how I think I might like to publish Echelon, but I haven’t discussed much about art. I did a bit of math. Depending on how large things get, I see the following paths for my art requirements. No-Frills PDF Just as it says on the box …
I took David’s post on Sneak Attacks and the Executioner and incorporated some of the comments from our conversation below it. I do still like the token mechanic, but in this case I think there might be a better approach. Sneak Attack provides its own resource (sneak attack dice) that …
I decided to look at how to represent Sneak Attack as a set of Echelon talents. I looked at the Executioner class from Iron Heroes, and to a lesser extent the Thief class. Each has its own special abilities, with about 2D6 per tier for Executioner and 3D6 per 2 …
I have to wonder, how much time, in game terms, should it take to become good at something you don’t already practice? One of the biggest sticking points for people when I describe Echelon is the ability for a character to go from ‘no casting’ to ‘decent casting’, and even …
David asked at google+: Has anyone been thinking about keystones (corner and cap) at the Basic level? We have Warrior Born and Steeped in Magic cornerstones, but for a character who upgrades these to the Expert version (where adventurers start), they need to replace them with something else. I’ve been …
My original model of martial training was much as the model for caster training. A character could have a ‘Martial Training’ cornerstone talent (I was calling it “Warrior Born”) that provided half the possible Martial Training Bonus, and some generic combat-relevant benefits I never got around to defining. A character …
I had initially aimed to create a unified casting system where all casters follow the same rules and cast the same spells in the same way, then use talents to control spell access, secondary powers, and alternate casting methods. I realized while examining Knowledge skills that there is probably a …
Seems odd to use ‘Gygaxian Democracy’ when the idea is to move away from what EGG wrote so long ago, but let’s give this a try. I need more interesting races to work with than those in the Revised System Reference Document. “Humans in funny suits” doesn’t do it for …
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