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’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 …
As mentioned in my last post, I’m gathering research material for Echelon. I’d been planning to mine Pathfinder for material, and since I had a couple weeks off just now I figured it would be a good time. I had no real idea how much there is out there. I …
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 …