Latest Material Index

. 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 – Star Wars

. Cumulative General Index.

d20 Material:

• Federation-Apocalypse Logs: Session 130, Session 131, Session 132, Session 133, Session 134a, Session 134b, Session 134c, Session 135, Session 136, Session 137a, Session 137b, Session 138a,
• Sauron and Marty: Building Sauron as an Identity.
• Melkor-Morgoth and Kevin: Building Morgoth as an Identity.
• Dark Lord Kevin: Kevin’s (reasonably) current statistics – and the Divine Endowments and Kadian Package Deals that he grants to his followers.
• The Gravespeaker: Building an Eclipse “Class”.
• Howl-of-Death: Level Six Hyena Gravespeaker.
• Ryan “Tools” O’Malley and his Biography: ECL 14+ Technomancer.
• The Serpent Master: Characters born with dark magic. Masters of the Serpent: Ifhitel the Assassin and Chandia the Snakewitch, Serpent Masters II – Marhandur the Son of the Serpent
• Darkchilde’: +2 ECL children of light and darkness.
• Zachary Marron, Level Zero (ECL 2) Darkchilde’ Alchemist
• Eclipse Pathfinder: Building the Pathfinder classes in Eclipse: The Barbarian, The Bard, The Cleric, The Druid, The Monk, The Fighter, The Paladin, The Ranger, The Rogue, The (Expanded) Alchemist,
• Amnesia Magic: Another exotic branch of Thaumaturgy.
• Eclipse and the Sekirei: Another template for Anime characters – in this case, the Sekirei
• Advanced Armor Training: Improving your abilities with Armor in Eclipse.
• Eclipse and the Hero System: Comparing the two – and two different philosophies of game design.
• Nullfields, Antimagic, Dismissal, and Arcane Overloads: The advantages, limitations, and breaking of Antimagic.
• Torak Rosul, ECL 19 Lord of Darkness: An epic-level lord of darkness.
• Creatures of Darkness: The Greater Undead +2 ECL Template and the Knights of Hades +4 ECL Template.
• Lord Goth at CR12 – and at CR20+, with how he was upgraded : A deadly Knight of Hades.
• Leveling Intelligent Items: When, how – and when not to – do so.
• The Spirit Binder Package: An anime-style approach to shamanistic characters.
• Eclipse d20 – Airbending and its World: Building “Benders”.
• Races of the Twilight Isles – the Hann Beastmasters: A stealthy race of small folk who spend a lot of time as undead.
• Darius Metaxis: Level ten siege engineer.

General RPG Material:

• Esoteric Botany: Earth Magic Plants, Life Magic Plants, Death Magic Plants, Spirit Magic Plants,
• Introducing Villainy: Bringing villains into your storyline.
• A Drop of Chaos: Primal Cosmology – and the mythic basis of fantastic worlds.

Star Wars Material:

• Campaign Log – Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav: Session 30, Session 31, Session 32, Session 33, Session 34, Session 35, Session 36, Session 37, Session 38, Session 39, Session 40, Session 41, Session 42, Session 43,
• d6 Starship Design: A preliminary system for designing d6 starships.
• Recordings from the Holocron of Valerie Soung – Traveling Company, Gravity,
• Ayshan Vascud, Darth Sorrown of the Varen Sith

RPG Design:

• The Illusion of Game Balance: Why “Game Balance” is a myth. Continues with Part II, and a Commentary.

TORG Material:

• TORG Justifiers: Adapting an old game setting for TORG.
• Robin Hood, Fox-Beta: A Justifier in TORG.
• Eclipse and the Hero System: Comparing the two – and two different philosophies of game design.
• TORG Quick Reference Sheets:For anyone trying to run TORG these days.

Exalted Material:

• New Solar Charms: Performing for Creation, Guardian Presence Charms, Occult Charms, The Way of Manse and Demesne, Dreaming Narrative Conquest (and a couple of Raksha charms),
• Mortal “Charms”: Minor supernatural merits for mortal characters.
• Vere Lugard (Exalted Modern): Personal History: Stellar Emissary of the Mountain Folk.
• Manses: The Orrery of Istalian (Sidereal Manse-3), The House of Phantoms (Lunar Manse-1), The Hoenheim Manse (Wood Manse-5 and mystical headquarters), The Halls of Alternity (Lunar Manse-5), .
• New Merits: A selection of new Merits for Exalted characters.
• New Hearthstones: Part I and Part II
• Building Hearthstones: Rules for constructing – and upgrading – Hearthstones.
• The Cauldron-Born: What happens when Raksha try to bond with an Exalted.
• The Oberian Geomantic Academy: Training and Equipping Masters of Thaumaturgy, with their specialized Artifacts.
• Professor Ravenblack: “Mortal” Thaumaturgist, Graduate, and Professor of the Oberian Academy.
• Terrestrial, Celestial, and Solar Spells: A selection of new utility spells.
• Charles Dexter Ward, Twilight Artificer and his Background.
• Oniwabanshu (“Garden Keeper”) Jun and Hidden Twig Village: A god-blooded servant of heaven – and trainer of other god-blooded.
• Shards of Exaltation: What you actually need to put in an “Exaltation Artifact”.
• Charles’s Amalgam Assistants: The Coatl, The Inugami,
• Ixiah, God of Thaumaturgy and Youngsters Playing Ninja: A professional familiar-godling.
• Raksha Charms: Dreaming Thunder Guardian (summoning defenses from the Wyld), Mysteries of the Raksha (the sorcery and thaumaturgy of the Raksha).

World Tree Material:

• How to Drown an Orren: An assortment of peculiar spells for eliminating opponents in very eccentric ways.
• Ardenharius Sen Thrachten Philosos: A Rassimel sorcerer.

World of Darkness Material:

• Bruce Damien “I Am Not the Prince of Darkness!” De La Vega: A spiritualist-detective.