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 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 …
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.
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 …
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, …
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.
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 …