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 thought I might explore a bit with some techniques. my rivers needed help. I like how they look now, though it does make for some fiddly work. I’m becoming comfortable with this method of drawing forests, though I’m going to stop doing them piecemeal — I’ll note where I …
I thought I’d try another experiment, I’m working a bit now with forest techniques. Next one, I think I’ll take it a little farther — plan the image, for one thing, and get a few more terrain types and the like in. The rivers need a little more work, too. …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …