I was doing some more experiments with my mapping techniques. I’m becoming happier with them. I do need to improve the sequencing. Work out where I want the map elements (mountains, rivers, forests, etc.), then finalize river and shoreline before trying to tackle the elements. I screwed up this time …
Here’s a nice, quick, easy one, and it’s a modification that can work with the RSRD rules as written. Let’s start by reviewing how weapons might work with regards to melee damage. Weapons used two-handed can do more damage than weapons used one-handed. Light weapons tend to depend more on …
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.