I like how the Defense subdomain (of the Protection domain) looks when applied to the War domain, shifting the focus so it’s a little less aggressive. I think this might be the start of a hybrid domain that would be suitable for more defensive combatants and guardians. Let’s see how …
I like how the Defense subdomain (of the Protection domain) looks when applied to the War domain, shifting the focus so it’s a little less aggressive. I think this might be the start of a hybrid domain that would be suitable for more defensive combatants and guardians. This article originally …
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 …
Pathfinder made quite a few changes to Dungeons & Dragons 3.5, some subtle and some not so subtle. I like quite a few of the presentation changes, and some of the character development changes excited me. Barbarian rage powers, paladin mercies, sorcerer bloodlines, all these choices excited me. Over time, …
My research process for Echelon usually involves pulling as much related material together as possible so I have it all in one place. That way I can work with a single document — print it out, scribble in margins, and so on, rather than packing around several books and something …
In the last couple of days I’ve reviewed some books that have information that looks useful for developing fantastic locations. Of those there are four that I look to most often. Revised System Reference Document The only thing I’ve found in the RSRD regarding chaos lands has to do with …
I’ve been procrastinating on this post, mostly because I had to get the content straight in my head first. In other words, overthinking. Again. One of the stumbling blocks I’ve faced with this whole overhaul has to do with how to efficiently build it. When you’re coding one thing, you …
Not rethinking what I’m doing, so much as how I’m doing it. When I started on rewriting, I picked evasion, and rewriting evasion was easy. Then I tried rewriting weapon and armor proficiencies, and it’s more involved than I expected. Evasion was simple because it is narrow scope and has …
Another topic I’ve overlooked is ‘small gods’: semi-divine entities that can be focus of faith at local levels. In most roleplaying games, it seems deities are omnipresent, if not omniscient and omnipotent. It would suck to play an adventuring cleric who can’t do their thing because they’re too far from …
I’d always assumed I’d run Seekers of Lore under some form of D&D or AGE System. D&D has been my system of choice for decades, and AGE scratches the same itch, better. Turns out they both struggle in some ways. A major aspect of Seekers of Lore is that ‘new …
