Still working on the Echelon Reference Series, and I’m rebuilding my prerequisite parsing and linking system. I didn’t think to capture metrics before I started, but I’m already a little over 90% ‘pretty definitive matches’ — that is, where I can match a prerequisite string to a specific game entity …
I haven’t posted since the A-Z Challenge back in April. It was partly burnout, and largely because completing the challenge severely cut into my work on the Echelon Reference Series. I’m still catching up on that, and shaping up to have my first release in the next few weeks. I had a …
Some time ago I switched the development of the Echelon roleplaying game from Dungeons & Dragons 3.x to Pathfinder. I figured there was more material more readily accessible. I was right about that. In fact, it turns out that individual topics could not fit entirely in my brain — there …
D&D isn’t just Dungeons & Dragons, after all. Though I started playing Dungeons & Dragons a bit more than thirty years ago (thank you, arithmetic, for that painful fact), and it does relate to today’s topic. A couple days ago I posted about the Echelon Reference Series, an exhaustive (and …
That should have ‘B’ well and truly covered. The first release from Echelon Game Design is nearing completion. I aim to have Echelon Reference Series: Barbarian ready for release by the end of June. The Echelon Reference Series is (or will be) a collection of books gathering information on specific …
Last night I posted a PDF of the index of a layout draft document containing classes. Here, I have the index of a working draft of the Echelon Reference Series: Barbarian book. Same rules for indexing, but different data, including many feats and their associated diagrams. Many feat prerequisites and diagrams …
I’ve been kind of busy lately, so many projects in the works. Here’s a sample from one that’s been going on for about a year now, the Echelon Reference Series. I’ve been working on setting up indexing options, to see what additional information I might need to help make this …
I’ve been working on the Echelon Reference Series lately, and while I might not actually publish my spells research document it does make for a good testbed for layout work. Building these documents also let me exercise the data manipulations I’ll need farther down the line. I have data sets …
Tentative final cover, at least. Now has a proper logo. Some minor placement changes (just shifting things a bit). Small changes to the strip at the top (a little wider, added ‘stitching’). The differences aren’t individually very big, but I think they really touch things up. Image scaled down so …
A while ago I mentioned a “Pathfinder Big Book” project I was working on. I am still working on Echelon, and my research documents are continuing to grow. I decided it’s time to take the plunge and start packaging them as the Echelon Reference Series. After talking with a few …