Things I’ve worked on, or that I’m working on, intended for publication.
D&D isn’t just Dungeons & Dragons, after all. Though I started playing Dungeons & Dragons a bit more than thirty years ago (thank you, arithmetic, for that painful fact), and it does relate to today’s topic. A couple days ago I posted about the Echelon Reference Series, an exhaustive (and …
That should have ‘B’ well and truly covered. The first release from Echelon Game Design is nearing completion. I aim to have Echelon Reference Series: Barbarian ready for release by the end of June. The Echelon Reference Series is (or will be) a collection of books gathering information on specific …
Last night I posted a PDF of the index of a layout draft document containing classes. Here, I have the index of a working draft of the Echelon Reference Series: Barbarian book. Same rules for indexing, but different data, including many feats and their associated diagrams. Many feat prerequisites and diagrams …
I’ve been kind of busy lately, so many projects in the works. Here’s a sample from one that’s been going on for about a year now, the Echelon Reference Series. I’ve been working on setting up indexing options, to see what additional information I might need to help make this …
I realized a while ago that for my polyhedral pantheons methods to really shine, I need more subdomains, and I want them to be more interesting. I think I know how to manage that, but it leads me to some other things I need to consider. The polyhedral pantheon methods …
I’ve been working on the Echelon Reference Series lately, and while I might not actually publish my spells research document it does make for a good testbed for layout work. Building these documents also let me exercise the data manipulations I’ll need farther down the line. I have data sets …
Tentative final cover, at least. Now has a proper logo. Some minor placement changes (just shifting things a bit). Small changes to the strip at the top (a little wider, added ‘stitching’). The differences aren’t individually very big, but I think they really touch things up. Image scaled down so …
A while ago I mentioned a “Pathfinder Big Book” project I was working on. I am still working on Echelon, and my research documents are continuing to grow. I decided it’s time to take the plunge and start packaging them as the Echelon Reference Series. After talking with a few …
Matt Jackson (of lapsus calumni) asked on Google+ about the minimum required character traits for a light-weight RPG. Light enough that it doesn’t have classes. Taking some of the ideas there, I think the following might be workable. First, reduce things to their very basics and abstract them. What do …
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, …