In an effort to get back into the habit of writing regularly, I’m trying to post at least one article a day. There is not necessarily any relationship between successive articles, the topics may vary widely from day to day.
I’ve been examining damage charts, especially the damage for increasing monster size and weapon sizes. This is post is largely analysis and comparison. I’m not done with this topic. I think I’ve got something (several somethings, in fact) that are better than the RSRD version, but I’m not satisfied yet …
I thought I’d take a look at flight. It’s a pretty common ability, even in real life. It should be possible for creatures to fly. Fairly close again, I think. 75% of the creatures can pay for their flight out of the slots available at their tier, and it’s not …
About a month and a half ago I posted an article that said that I expected it to be tricky to implement dragons in my ‘monster reconstruction’ scheme. That may still be so, but I realized recently that they may actually be quite easy in Echelon. It was a fair …
About three weeks ago I posted how to incorporate some Iron Heroes Feats. I had put off writing some more partly because I was interested in other matters, but also because the mastery feats often use a token mechanism that I wasn’t sure I wanted to include. I’d forgotten that …
I thought I might explore a bit with some techniques. my rivers needed help. I like how they look now, though it does make for some fiddly work. I’m becoming comfortable with this method of drawing forests, though I’m going to stop doing them piecemeal — I’ll note where I …
I thought I’d try another experiment, I’m working a bit now with forest techniques. Next one, I think I’ll take it a little farther — plan the image, for one thing, and get a few more terrain types and the like in. The rivers need a little more work, too. …
I haven’t posted anything in a few days. I’ve been doing an analysis of the monsters in the RSRD to see how some of the design changes from Echelon work out. I can’t exactly model the RSRD monsters. This was never a design goal of Echelon. However, I will take …
No Thing a Day post today, I think. I’m in the middle of a frighteningly interesting analysis that I don’t want to interrupt. Hopefully tomorrow or Saturday.
I’m feeling a lot like not wanting to write today, but have generally been good about writing regularly (a post every day for more than five weeks). Instead I thought I’d do something different, practice a bit of map drawing. It’s been a while, I’m relearning techniques I haven’t practiced …
In discussing yesterday’s post about the goals of Echelon, I realized there are some unspoken assumptions on my part. I mentioned how I didn’t mind ‘CR math’, the arithmetic used to combine Challenge Ratings to find Encounter Levels and thus estimate whether or not an encounter can be considered reasonable …