No Post Today
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.
Category: Challenges
Posting challenges, usually time bound or on a particular topic or theme.
Something Different
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 …
Adventure and Encounter Design
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 …
Goals of Echelon
As with any piece of work, it’s best to identify the goals of the work – if for no other reason than being able to know when you’re done. My goals in developing Echelon are pretty straightforward.
Exploring Armor Options
A few days ago I posted rules for armor in Echelon. Some have been retained, some discarded because they were impractical or didn’t achieve the goals I wanted. Two benefits of armor that I really liked were that armor provided Damage Reduction and energy resistance. I removed the Damage Reduction …
Spell-Like Abilities
Yesterday while describing outsider templates I described a little about how I picture spell-like abilities working. This was something that I expected to give me a lot of trouble, but it turns out that the Tome (collecting articles and other writing by Frank Trollman and K [another Keith, I understand, …
Outsider Templates
I’ve been working on an examination and analysis of outsiders (brought about by trying to describe Babau in Echelon), and frankly it’s going to take more time than I have tonight. Instead, I thought I’d present a few templates that basically fell out of that analysis.
Babau in Echelon, Take 1
A few weeks ago I described how to reconstruct a demon, specifically a Babau, to better fit its textual description as a sneak. This was in part to make a creature that could be more easily adapted to other roles as well. Now that Echelon’s a little more developed, I …
Defenses in Echelon, Take 2
Three things learned today: People are reading these articles, with a critical eye. I can blow it sometimes. … I evidently can’t count to three, because I forgot the last one. Comments Received I’ve seen comments about yesterday’s post that include the following: Damage Reduction is way too high, especially …
Defenses in Echelon
I’ve written before about saving throw talents, and there is a talent to improve a character’s Dexterity, but I haven’t yet discussed much how to help keep a character from getting hurt in a fight. I have not yet run numbers on this, so this is greatly subject to change. …