“… Yes You CAN!” I am so sorry. At least I kept it out of the post title. Yesterday I created a basic adventure structure, ten nodes (places of interest, basically) all linked up. Now I need to put something in them. Time to break out the tools of imagination. …
After a campaign has started, there are usually enough loose threads available for me to hang an adventure from, and have some idea of the focus of the adventure. In this case I have none, it’s the start of a new adventure. If I had a campaign going I might …
Time for a little project, time to get something done with Echelon that I can point at and give people. The core rulebook is likely to be a while yet, but I don’t need one. Instead, I’ll create a quickstart adventure. Instead of publishing all the rules ahead of time, and …
In my last post I had a little throwaway sentence about skill ranks and how to determine them: ranks equals the sum of level bonus, proficiency bonus, and specialization bonus. This really didn’t sit well with me because skill ranks are often used as prerequisites, specifically level-derived prerequisites, and being …
Pathfinder Unchained has a bunch of little rules and subsystems to replace or augment those in core, and I think I see a way to combine a couple of skills-related changes to good effect. A bit of background first: I really, really hate fiddling with skill points. I’ve used them …
The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game has an immense amount of content. I know. I publish PDFs that were originally created as research documents for various topics and character classes. Believe me, there’s a huge amount of content. Many people use only the core subset, others kitchen-sink it and allow basically anything (possibly …
In my last Race and Class post I discussed other ways race-class associations have been implemented in D&D and D&D-like games. I have come to prefer to the later-edition methods of handling it: some races are just better at certain classes, at least a bit, or exhibit traits similar to …
Or perhaps ‘historical alternates’. In my last post I described how race and class were linked in various editions of Dungeons & Dragons (and family). In this post I’ll expand a little on these connections, and a couple of alternatives to them. Later-era D&D 3.x presented ‘alternate class features’, where …
Four months since my last blog post?! Apparently the new job — which is going wonderfully — has been taking more out of me than I anticipated. However, now that I’m getting my feet under me it’s time to get back to some game design. Races and Classes in Dungeons …
The 2017 GM’s Day Sale is almost over, but you still have a couple of days if you want to pick up any Echelon Game Design products at a 30% discount. (They’re also available at Paizo and the Open Gaming Store, both of which give me a better cut, but …