. It’s once again time to get the latest material index updated and to transfer the material from the old one to the main index tabs at the top of the page. If you want the very latest material, it may be necessary to either scroll down or consult the “Recent Posts” listing-widget on the lower right. The previous Latest Materials Index can be found HERE and – for those who like to rummage at random – the full post-by-post index can be found occupying a great deal of space in the lower right column.
. Eclipse Classless d20 Character Construction Cribsheet / Sample Character List – Character Creation Primer – Compiled Martial Arts.
. Subindexes: RPG Design – Twilight Isles – Battletech – Champions – d20 – Legend of the Five Rings – Shadowrun – White Wolf – Other Games – Battling Business World
Cumulative General Index.
. d20 Material:
- Federation-Apocalypse Logs: Session 106a, Session 106b, Session 107b, Session 108a, Session 108b, Session 108c, Session 110,
- Magic in Midgarth: Adjusting d20 magic for a low-magic world with unique magical specialists.
- Alchemical Magic: A spell list and spells for alchemical hedge magicians.
- Eclipse d20 Sample Characters: Ulric Kyrie Dunholtson (A mystical guardian, wielder of the Dragon Path, and hedge mage), Kesara Galano (Delusional Shadow Elf), Tarlin Malority (Death-affinity Thunder Dwarf Assassin) and his History, Brendalen Kathin (a mid-level Loup-Garou),
- The Number Lord Template: For when mathematics funs amuck.
- Epic Talents: Extending the rules from The Practical Enchanter to cover epic level characters.
- The Loup-Garou: Another variant on the werewolf – this time as nature spirits.
- Eclipse and PCGen: The Sapient Leopard Template and Sylthis Torr – a Leopard Warrior-Adept of the Obsidian Order – and how creating him worked out in PCGen.
- The Obsidian Order and the Crystal Seers: Two orders with opposing viewpoints on keeping secrets.
. Star Wars d6 Material:
- Session Logs: Session Four, Session Four Kira’s View, Session Five Combined View, Session Six Combined View, Session Seven Combined View, Session Eight Combined View,
- Kira Keldav: Writing Home, Return to Alderaan, Famalies of Friends, The Festival of Masks, Master and Apprentice – and the Varen Sith, Albinism,
- Randu Palait, a.k.a. “Shipwreck”: Sensor operator and salvage expert.
- Jarik Alder: Physician-Gambler.
. Shadowrun / Earthdawn Material:
- Dust of Ages: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Mapping Interlude, Part IX, Part X, and Part XI – Aftermath.
Godlike / Wild Talents Material:
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The Wanderer: A dimensional traveller.
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Lebenszyklus: A biologist and genetic manipulator.
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Carrista: A youngster and his pet tank.
. Player Blog Crosslinks:
Here we have a selection of links to some of the player blogs – and the materials they’ve come up with.
. Star Wars d6:
- Alys Diary: Session II, Session III, Interesting Times, Invasion of the Sith, Plans, The Festival of Masks Part I, The Festival of Masks Part II, The Hunt Must Go On,
- Ben Therus: Precognitive Advisor.
- A Proposal for a Better Tomorrow (doing something about bioweapon jellyfish),
. Eclipse d20:
- The Number Lords: The Number Realm, Lord Zero (The Number Lord of Eternity), One (The Number Lord of Identity).
- Wallbanging: The forbidden addiction.
- The Contract Domain: An exotic domain for Lord Marty.
- Akio Matsuda: A sentient humanoid robot from Battling Business World and the Humanoid Sapient Device Template.
- Battling Business Japan: Anime meets Battling Business World.
- Dr Soloman Brenner: A highly skilled, if monstrously immoral, surgeon from the Linear Realms.
- The Realm Laws and Conventions of Battling Business World.
- Battling Business America: The most commonly-visited section of Battling Business World.
- Bernie “Coach” Thompson, Floorherd: A Battling Business World Stockbroker.
- Battling Business World Britian. One of the major subsettings.
- Todd Jenkins, Battling Business World English Tradationilist-Archer
- Marty’s Updated Identities – The Animator (Crusader Comedic Supervillain), Black Marty (High Seas Pirate Captain), Darrick Rodan (Star Wars Trader), James Tomlinson (Baelarian Mage), Perry Scott (Linear Realms Extortionist), Martin the Noble Macaw Privateer (Anthro Realms), Martin O’Dale (Forgotten Realms Bard and Wereleopard), Sam Monroe (Battling Business World Raid Champion). The original version of Martin the Macaw can be found HERE.
- Limey’s Level Four Update: He’s becoming quite a powerful laptop.
- Limey’s Updated Identities: Spellbook, Corporate Raider, and Magical Skull.
- Gelman’s Linear Realms Identity: Special Agent Novak (end of article).
- Fredronon’s Current Updates, Notes on Returning After a Battle, Notes on Bringing Back Ysmir, Notes on the Undead, Level Three Updates, and Ability Spotlight II (Some notes on how he built some of his powers), A Report Back to the Capital, Notes and Reports Index, Interviews with Elementals (6), The Day of the Swamp Elves (7), The Demon in the Details (8), Vampire Hunter F Placeholder (9), Attack of the Vampire Trees (10) ,
- The Arcane Death Cheater Template (an incomplete template for those who keep coming back from the dead).
- The Deeply Bonded Familiar Template – for building a Familiar that can save your neck AND increase your firepower.
- Fredronon’s Character Sheet, one for a Shadow Elf Ritualist, and some other material can be downloaded over on the player’s blog in the download box.
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I have purchased Eclipse. It’s a tremendously helpful work for point-buy generation (much better than things like ‘Buy the Numbers’ in my opinion).
There is one third-party product’s ability though that I’m having trouble assigning a point cost to. I’ts completely FREE on DriveThruRPG or wherever you get your PDFs so I was wondering if you’d take a quick look.
It’s called Untapped Classes: Society Mind. Society Minds have a neat ability called a Worldthought Network that has various uses like casting buffs and healing those on the network and at later levels has a planar range. I can’t imagine what to compare the ability to as far as eyeballing a point cost.
There are numerous other expansions on that ability in other non-free supplements like stealing health from those unwillingly on the network and whatnot, but I’m pretty sure I can manage to cost those out if I had a ball park for the basic ability progression.
Thoth might reply with more later, but just from what you described here, it sounds like just Mystic Link with the power link and maybe communications upgrades. If everyone is linked to the same thing, I think they could cast any spell on any target linked to it.
it would take some limitations to prevent locating the primary root of the link, reduce the range from planar, and limit it to less than all spells (to just buffs and healing). The cost for those three abilities starts off at 9 and could would probably drop to at least 6 if it has limitations on all three.
Well, I’m glad you’ve finding Eclipse useful – and, since you ask, I’ll see about putting up a quick breakdown for the Society Mind and it’s abilities.
I see that all of it’s statistics are Open Game Content, so there’s no problem with posting such a breakdown. I’ll probably just do it at level twenty though, since – using Eclipse – you don’t need to follow their progression strictly anyway.
And now it’s up: you can find a full conversion right over here: https://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/eclipse-d20-the-society-mind-and-psionic-focus/