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>>52031236
Quite.

Would making medicine fall under Medicine or Craft? What about poisons?

>>52031747

Good question. Possibly craft (Alchemy) to do either of them.

>>52030758

>How many Exigents and what kind have you used in your games?

In my modern game, several.

- Exigent of rock and roll
- Exigent of Science and Engineering
- Exigent of Music (More of a name drop/plot point as this was dead in the plot long before the game start)
- Exigent of Blades
- Exigent of Bureaucracy

>>52031747
>>52032415
Gathering herbs is survival, making them into medicine would fall into craft, maybe allow applicable medicine and survival specialities in the necessary rolls. application of the medicine would fall under the skill of the same name.
If ST doesn't allow applying medical skills in the crafting or gathering of healing herbs, I'd go for trans-ability charms. Homebrewing can be a lot of fun with some amount of reasonable thinking.

>>52030758
I still want to run an Exigents' Bizarre Adventure thing some day.

So how did your current character Exalt? This is usually the most difficult part of the backstory for me as I have difficulty categorizing actions as "Heroic."

>>52037016
Well, not my current character, because I had to take up GMing after our planned GM was rendered unable to, but the character I was planning on playing was a Zenith bard type following around his dispossessed lord. He Exalted not after helping his liege escape an attempt on his life and title, but rather on the carriage ride out after they fled their manor, soothing the baron's quiet sobs with old folk songs in a moment of unrequited compassion for another. Unfortunately, the giant beam of Solar anima flaring to totemic kinda caused that plan to backfire a little bit.

>>52037016

She was attempting to assassinate a mortal member of a dynastic house. The stress of the attack caused her mark to Exalt. When she chose to face him, instead of bugging out - knowing the she would likely die - she Exalted too.

>>52037757

That's an interesting one because it immediately sets up a reoccurring character. What did the two of you Exalt as?

>>52037016
My current character is a Zenith from Wavecrest named Righteous (he used to be called Bright Stone but recently changed his name). Righteous Stone was framed by one of the local judge-priests who wanted to marry his sister, but she wasn't interested. Righteous Stone ended up catching him trying to assault her and got into a fight. During the fight he crushed the judge-priest's left hand. The judge-priest managed to frame things as if he was the victim, and Bright Stone was was thrown in prison.

Eventually it came time to sacrifice people to the volcanoes so the guards took Righteous Stone up to the top, with the judge-priest watching.

"Do you have any last words?"

Righteous Stone gave an impassioned speech denouncing the judge and declaring that he would have his revenge for this abuse of power and called out to the heavens begging for them to protect his family since he would no longer be able to do so. That's when he began glowing with the power of the Exaltation.

All of the guards fell back, and Righteous Stone turned around and punched the volcano really hard, demanding that the volcano god to appear before him. The god did so, and Righteous Stone pointed at the judge-priest, "You're going to demand that he gets sacrificed to you. And you're going to do so right now."

The volcano god was rather daunted by the whole affair. He had been expecting a regular sacrificial offering, not an angry Solar so he quickly did so. The guards wasted no time in grabbing the priest-judge and chucking him into the volcano (apparently they didn't like him very much either).

Can anyone tell me what is up with the Talisman of Ten Thousand Eyes? If you want to craft one, its a 4 dot artefact, but it also needs a celestial working to make, but it's not a First Age Artefact and as such doesn't follow the rules for making one, such as needing additional workings.

Is that some sort of anomaly that it's not fully consistent with either type of artefact? It's also the only initiation ritual, I think, that requires you spend XP on something beyond the Sorcery charm. Any recommendation on a fix, or should it be left alone?

Do decisive attack boosters work on gambits if they don't specifically say they do?

>>52038682
Yes. A gambit is a type of decisive attack which typically does something other than deal damage, which means anything that can be used to boost decisive attacks can be used with a gambit.

Of course, some things might not be useful - if you're making a disarm gambit and use a Charm to try and boost damage, it won't do anything since you won't be dealing damage with your decisive attack.

I made a demon, tell me what you all think.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B-QXkWbnWhi0TQ1uQeWt25S1uj1Vab91Z2Vhz4XZrkM/edit?usp=sharing

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>>52038918
Looks pretty alright. I find myself agreeing with what Joseph Stalin wrote in his note.

>>52038682

Unless they call it out specifically as doing so, I rule on the side of no.

>>52038754

NATURAL LANGUAGE

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>>52038918
You are really good at this. Did you also make that fire demon a long while ago?

I wish I had that talent. My demons are bland in comparison.

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>>52039751
Didn't see that the write up was by scorpion. No wonder it's good.

>>52039751
>>52039791
Yeah, sadly I only did the mechanics, the actual write-up's by Earthscorpion.

>>52038410
I don't see the problem?

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>>52030758
Exigents aren't that interesting, unless you have an incredibly cool concept to back them up.

The two canon exigents of farming and exigent of cities could have been a wood terrestrial and a solar, respectively, and nothing of value would be lost.

Cool concepts include Masks, Keys, and... That's all I can do right now.

Is it possible to use VEE to buff your allies to maximum? Is there any limit or downside I should be aware of?

>>52040299

1) Unlike any other artefact you can make, it needs a SW.
2) Unlike a First Age Artefact, it only needs one and is otherwise made like a regular artefact.
3) It's the only initiation into sorcery that requires you spend XP beyond the charm.
4) It's the pnly initiation into sorcery that requires you to be initiated into sorcery.

>>52037871

He Exalted Fire Aspect, she Night.

>>52038410

Well, you can't make it to teach yourself Sorcery, because you already need to be able to perform Sorcery to create it.

The way I read it, if you as a PC choose it as one of your shaping rituals, you get it for free as per usual. But if you, as a PC Craft Monkey, want to start pumping them out to induct others into Sorcery, it's gonna cost XP for dem workings.

So /exg/, how long do you reckon it'll be until we finally see 3e books for Infernals and/or Alchemicals?

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>>52041446
That >>52041577

You don't need to spend any extraneous XP to get that initiation, only if you want to create another one of those artifacts to jumpstart others into Sorcery. It's another one of those poorly thoughts, poorly worded design decisions taken to ensure that you can't mass produce artifacts or supermortals.

Don't think too hard about it. You'll only get a headache.

>>52042008
But supermortals are so helpful.
Especially since they needn't be enlightened to be sorcerors now

>>52042008

That's what I thought. I even double checked to see if the cost of the SW was comparable to the cost of the initiation charm. A Celestial working of Ambition 1 is 2xp if you already have Celestial Sorcery. If not, it's 6xp.

The "Can't mass produce sorcery" angle is obvious, I just feel it wasn't handled appropriately.

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>>52042109
Yes, and nothing prevents you from pressuring Ifreet Lords into contracting your mortals, or repeatedly summoning Mara to initiate who you want.

It's just poorly thought.

>>52030758
wanna make a redwall badger hare or warrior mouse. what lunar flaw would they have?

>>52042353
Badgers were berserkers right? So that'd be curse of the raging bull or red rage of compassion(curse of a mother bear?). And the mouse would have Foolhearty Contempt(curse of the brazen terrier?).

I can't remember the hares having any real virtue flaw they were just professional soldier types in service to the badger lord...who read more solar to me than anything lunar with his fortress-forge

Are there any homebrew charms along the same lines as hell body kingdom for the other yozis?

>>52042281
On that matter, how do you make mortals as usefull as possible?
I mean rubbing a bit of your grossly incandescent awesomeness onto them makes you feel warm and them great(er than they are).

>>52042574
>hell body kingdom
http://rathess.xi.co.nz/exalted/index.php/Charms:Hell-Body_Kingdom

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>>52042672
The autosux Presence buff charms. They are costly, but you can store autosux into a mortal for a given mission. The mission can be 'assassinate this guy' or 'create that weapon' or something like that.

I really like this charm, even though it is 5 committed motes for 3 autosux.

>>52032699
post chosen of the rock god charm stats?

>>52042353
Mouseguard: more or less the unofficial redwall rpg

>>52041953
Considering how long it took them just to get the core book out, I'd say anywhere between 15 years to "not in our lifetime".

>>52042281
Initiation is a necessary but not sufficent part of becoming a sorcerer, though. You need certain - vaguely defined but important - qualities to become a sorcerer. These qualities are supposed to be rare, based on comments made by Morke over the course of the core's development. You can't mass produce sorcerers even if you have an ifree lord at your beck and call.

>>52038918
Could you link to Scantraphrax’s Craft and Bureaucracy systems?

>>52042840
>Literally become a city

>>52042672

Brainwash them until their Motivation is to defend you at all costs and then summon Alveua and have her forge each of them into a single ring of a mail shirt, so that you might walk around bearing a nation upon your chest.

>>52043059

Seems like a fitting capstone to the empire-building game we've started recently.

>>52043072
That's a method I'll keep in mind. Also givs 'Nation building' a whole new meaning.

>>52042863
Love presence supernal, bonus points for going my prefered route.

How would you write up "the curse of the wile e coyote"

Ok /tg/, what which is better, Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Style or Hidden Horse Style?

>>52043113
But who would want to sacrifice themselves though? Sure becoming a city for a few weeks or months is fun but not remaining like that the rest of your life.

>>52043844

As some sort of obsessive focus. Chasing after an object or ideal that is always just beyond your grasp. Better if your goal is beyond your Att+Abi pool to achieve.

>>52044010
thanks

>>52043914
It's not like an E7 infernal with the chops to stand off the respose becoming a permanent blasphemy effect will call down on their head won't have ways to interact on a more mortal scale if they feel the need.

>>52043914
alkies do it all the time

>>52043900
What's Hidden Horse Style?

>>52043914
>>52044106
>>52044420
shattered gale, or a custom charm representing a buffed mix of the host of spirits and form reduction technique spirit charms (basically copy the one alchemicals use to send out an avatar when /they/ turn into a city)

malfeas gets to be a city and also dance through it, so I don't see why not

>>52044484
recently posted joke marital art that makes you ambiguously on a horse https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?799438-Exalted-3-Hidden-Horse-Style

>>52044519
>marital art
I'm glad I'm not the only person who makes this typo

>>52044499

The hell-body charm anon posted defines a way to send out avatars already, by letting you use its prerequisite "temporarily absorb a building and turn into a strong-ass fighty golem thing" charm on your constituent buildings.

>>52043056
I'll do that in a bit.

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>>52040985
>exigent of cities
>not running it as Jack Hawksmoor
Do you even Stormwatch/Authority?

>>52045425
Thanks anon

>>52044556
swallowed darkness

>>52041027
nope, no downsides. inkmonkies saw the charm had the potential to be slightly op and took it way over the top(and it's still weaker than their solar stuff)

>>52045511
Done

Currently working on some Sorcery stuff.

>>52045961
Where did you put it?

>>52046033
Not him, but the links appear to have been added to the document linked in >>52038918

>>52046086
Thanks

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CfcKPpJlEF9_gRep0dZlOdl_Pd8SHqCF-iWUobyvcms/edit?usp=sharing

Here's some more homebrew. Tell me if it's too powerful?

anyone know what book I can find the stats for a celestial lion?

>>52039808
post the other one too

>>52048315
What other one?

>>52044519
The combination of marital art and that style in a single post is so heretical not even the unconquered sun in 2e would be able to feel compasion for the bloke meaning it.

>>52048816
lunars

What ability, other than Sail, do you feel is the most underused?

>>52050122

investigation. for what it's capable of covering, i've seen it used less than sail, even outside of West games.

>>52050122
Sail, Ride, Survival, and Investigation.

>>52050122
investigation

>>52050134
>>52050171
>>52050944

Really?

My socialite Zenith has been using it all the damn time. The ability to see through lies is great, forcing people to answer questions truthfully is a bonus, and the ability to conduct an in-depth search of a room in just a few seconds is amazing in of itself.

Playing in a 2e game as an Eclipse caste and I am asking for any tips regarding playing as one both mechanically and just in the RP sense. What are good Charms to take?

How do you deal with dynast estates? They have huuuuge fucking families, so do you sprinkle them around the realm or do you just have gigantic estates? Do they all have manses or just a few? For like Mnemon in particular I was thinking gigantic sprawling estate with the manse built in the center, or maybe the whole thing is the manse.

I'm a 3e newfag by the way, so I'm still getting around to reading older setting books if this was covered in them.

Does anyone know where I can grab a copy of the old First Edition Abyssals book? I have a physical copy of the stupid thing, but it's at my house 1/2 way across the country and I wanted to look something up.

>>52047345
If it's 2e then compass: Yushan page 129

Any news on anything new from onyx path or are we still dead in the water?

Return of Scarlet Empress is a shitty book but I'm curious, what would happen if Adorjan was unleashed into the Realm or Yushan? Surely you can banish her with a charm so she's not much of a threat.

>>52051919
it's linked in the op, if you already own it theres no shame in downloading a digital copy for ease of use

>>52052053
devs have calcified in creation. sometimes fairfolk recover from that but no telling whether it's in 3 weeks or 3 millennia

>>52052363
Damn Raksha...

What was the Empress' aspect marking? She has to be powerful enough to be showing off some elemental nature, but none of her depictions seem to show it.

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>>52053844
Rubies, hence 'The Scarlet Dynasty' and 'Her Redness.'

Has anyone used the Empress in their games?

>>52051369
They're spread around the Realm, with several householdes and estates of varying size for each House. A good chunk of them also live in the Imperial City, in the Empress' palace, which has a wing - which kind of is a fuckhuge sprawling estate in itself - for members of the Dynasty. As for manses, I'd say that every House probably has a few manses, at least 3-dot versions.

>>52052287
who's gonna waste the xp just having that charm on hand? that gives her a few days to rampage

>>52054311
Is this covered in one of the 1e or 2e books? I was going to get a cheap PDF reading tablet and just mass read this shit as I plan my campaign. I'm getting Scavenger sons, lost eggs, the compass books, games of divinity, lookshy, and maybe some of the caste/aspect books.

Should I bother reading up on Fae/Yozi/neverborn right now or save that for later in the campaign?

>>52053844
earth aspect with red

>>52054418
I think it was in 1E's Dragon-Blooded, which in my opinion covers the Dragon-Blooded fluff best out of the currently existing Exalted books.

>Should I bother reading up on Fae/Yozi/neverborn right now or save that for later in the campaign?
Unless you plan on using Fae antagonists early on, you can probably wait. Yozis are covered in Games of Divinity, though, so if you're going to get an read it anyways you'll learn somehting about them as well.

>>52054152
It might never come up, but I was toying with the idea that the empress has body swapped via essence with one of her kids, or one of their kids, as a way of buying herself some time. Like she switched bodies with Mnemon, put her away somewhere and just throws a big ol fit in public biweekly to get incognito and convince everyone it's business as usual while she plots to reconquer her empire for fun and profit. With her anagathic sorcerous knowledge the leap would buy her a good nother 400 years easy.

>>52054480
Where are the neverborn properly covered just in case? Do these things have stats for 3e yet, or will I have to wing it and knock up some myself in case of a demon attack, or them trying to jump Mask of Winters?

So, for curiosity's sake, what ability would housework fall under? Shit like doing dishes, sweeping floors, doing laundry, all that?

>>52055697
Hmmm... Maybe a custom skill. Other than that, bureaucracy or presence or integrity for mostly vague symbolic reasons.

>>52055697
Honestly sounds like you'd want to run that as a sort of project, in which case Craft seems to be the most immediate reaction. There are clear differences between dusting off a well maintained room and cleaning up an abandoned manse neglected for thousands of years.

>>52055697
The running of a large household is probably Bureaucracy. Why would you want to roll for the most mundane activities possible?

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>>52051009
not playing 2e

>>52055697
Athletics for large amount of doing it yourself
Larceny for the quality of doing it yourself
Bureaucracy for telling others to do it (on a larger scale)
No rolls for just cleaning up a place normally because what the fuck is your major malfunction

>>52054152
>Has anyone used the Empress in their games?

A short lived campaign that was about the prophetic preparations of several high figures for when the Empress came back and decided to nuke their cities. Like Nexus.

At the end of the campaign, the Empress cambe back and nuked those cities. Their manse teleported at the other side of creation, so it wasn't as dangerous for the PC.

It wasn't really good, but the giant holographic Empress pointing cities with her finger and going POOF was a good scene.

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>>52051369
Each family nucleus has a household, which is often absolutely grandiose, with servants, retainers, and family living together. Think Chinese or Japanese manse/household, holding a powerful family and a legion of other people too.

Each Great House also has a primary estate which is often the household of the patriarch/matriarch of the entire house. Like a personal family estate, but x1000. In a pinch you can crash into that estate if you're a member of the Great House, and there's always room for family. Like, a thousand of them.

>>52055697

Probably the same one for taking a dump, picking your nose, and eating.

Not everything needs a roll.

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Out of curiosity, how have you dealt with the timeless aspect of characters? Like, how long have you ever done a time-skip for during a campaign, or post campaign? I imagine that during, everything or a good chunk of things is crucial so you won't be time skipping very much aside from the normal days/weeks/couple of months, at most a year or two.

Also, have you ever had extensively lived characters afflicted with "Elf syndrome" or "Immortal syndrome" where their concept of time is completely fucked because of their longevity? I might be overthinking this.

>>52054537
If you really want to stat the neverborn, I advice to give them infinite health and a charm that induces mindmelting every tick, but no direct attacks.
Because they are reality defying monstrosities existing in a perpetual state of ¨And I must scream¨. they are not characters but forces that be.

>>52055697
Cleaning up? Athletics/Awareness+Dex/Wits I'd say.
Roll repeatedly until you hit a target number, suceeding on the first roll with threshold sucesses indicates you're done faster, with each additional success adding less time you're done earlier.
Also invert Intervals and time, each roll adding a distinct amount of time until you are done.

>>52056435
>No rolls for juust cleaning up a place normally because what the fuck is your major malfunction
usually being german and playing crunch heavy games does this to you.
Still, there are people who like that, I would,if only because the idea of a reborn warrior-king who wrestles horrors from beyond the world on a regular basis cleaning up a library is kinda funny, especially when you handle it mechanically inthe same way. It's a nice juxtaposition of purpose and mechanics.

>>52056045
>>52056078
>>52056157
>>52056435
>>52056745
>>52057086
Alrighty. Only reason I ask is because my groupnis starting a Dragonblooded game soon, and I'm playing a Cathak fire-aspect that has, uh...difficulties with discipline. Since the old aspect book mentioned in an example NPC's story that Cathak teaches discipline by making unruly children do a metric shit-ton of chores around the house, we started joking about how my character's probably gotten so good at housework he's probably developed charms for it. But then, there's -actual- cooking charms in the Clutch of Dragons homebrew, so I started half-entertaining the idea as a joke, but had no idea what ability that'd fall under.

Some choice quotes from our chat;

"THESE COUNTERS SHALL SHINE BRIGHTER THAN A THOUSAND FIRE DYNASTS!!!"
"THESE CLOTHES SHALL FOLD LIKE ENEMY FORCES BEFORE HIS MIGHT"

>>52057692
Note to self: get a hot-blooded (heh) fire aspected maid or butler.

>every potential metaplot end of creation event happens simultaneously.

>>52058510
>they all fight each other
>PCs steal victory from under their noses

>>52058646

That would be the win condition, yeah. There's a lot of bad shit in creation and a circle of 5ish people isn't going to be able to take all of it. not even solars.

>>52054152
I've made a Dawn Caste Solar whose goal is to find the Scarlet Empress and rescue her, in the hopes that she'd name him one of her Realm Magistrates and stop the Great Houses from attacking them - before he exalted, he was the apprentice of one of them, up until he was murdered by a couple of Dragonblooded assassins.

>>52057692
Oh. Well in that case, Martial Arts all the way.

>Ex3 is only shipping now.

How many fucking years has it been, lads? I keep forgetting how fortunate we were to get he leaks when we did.

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>>52060171
too long

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Zenith?

>>52030758
What's your favourite supernal starter?

Whenever I make a character for 3e, I pick a powerful charm or charm combo from their supernal ability. Seems like a good way to get a character started and give them something no other PC is going to have. I like Spirit-Drawing Oculus from Occult and Energy Restoration Prana from Integrity for having tonnes of motes, but I imagine some people are going to go with the E5 combat charms (like the Brawl Super Saiyan charm) or starting play with a complete martial art.

Any favourites or recommendations?

>>52062248

A dedicated clash build is great for fucking people up. As is dodge for shutting people down. Have to say that I like the combat support offered by Lore.

>>52062248

I do it sort of the same way, but I tend to shoot for mid-tier charms at chargen. Capstones seem to require almost all of my starting charms, which makes my character too narrow for my tastes.

>>52056157
>>52056435
>>52056745
>newfags have never heard of Augeas' Stable

>>52063117

Cleaning != diverting a river

>>52063117
A fine example of why you shouldn't roll for that sort of thing. "What do I need to roll to clean these stables" is not as fun as "fuck chores, I'm going to use a river"

What rating would a portable hole be in Exalted? Any associated costs you think to pop it in?

>>52063794
An actual portable hole is a bit to comic for Exalted (it's literally a Looney Tunes item), but previous editions have stated these.

Cache Egg
Created to store treasured or particularly useful possessions Elsewhere, both to keep them “nearby”
at all times and out of the reach of thieves, these jade vessels have the shape and texture of large eggs. The
volume of a cache egg determines its artifact rating as follows:
• one cubic foot or less ••• three cubic yards or less
•• up to one cubic yard •••• up to 10 cubic yards
Eggs rated at three dots or better are all but unheard of in the Second Age. Most are lost, having
been either broken or banished Elsewhere by long-dead owners.
Opening or closing a cache egg requires a touch and costs one mote. Up to half the shell may be opened
from any point on its surface. The interior is hollow and may be fi lled with any inanimate cargo up to its
maximum volume. If the shell is completely sealed and the vessel contains nothing living, a character may
touch it and spend 20 motes (uncommitted) to banish the vessel as a diceless miscellaneous action, causing
it to fl icker and vanish from the world into the non-space of Elsewhere. While banished, the egg retains an
arcane link to the character who banished it, allowing her to recall it at any time into a space large enough to
contain it by spending another 20 motes as an action. Recalled vessels return in physical contact with their
owners, where they may be opened and their contents reclaimed. Objects stored Elsewhere experience no
passage of time from the moment they are banished until they return to Creation. Characters cannot have
more than one egg linked to them, and banishing a second vessel while the fi rst remains Elsewhere shatters
the earlier connection, most likely exiling the egg and its contents to remain forever apart from the world.

>>52063832
Also, the write-up encourages you to bullshit them out of thin air. Broken into two parts due to character limit.


Celestial Exalted can sometimes recall cache eggs banished by prior incarnations of their Essence,
but doing so is extremely diffi cult, requiring a successful (Intelligence + Lore) roll at diffi culty 10 and Sto-
ryteller approval. Some First Age Exalted took advantage of this feature to leave behind “time capsules”
for future incarnations containing journals, dreamstones or prized treasures they wanted to bequeath to
their future selves.

>>52063832
>>52063851
So something in the style of a portable hole, a magical tapestry I could unroll to access an extradimensional space I keep my goodies would be within reason?

>>52063874

As long as its only to access goodies, and not to pop in and out of yourself, or trick enemies into falling into, I'd allow it in may games.

In fact, for a tapestry, I'd say touching it and spending a mote would let you store the item in the tapestry, whereupon it would be appear visually in the tapestry's scene, and the reverse for retrieving.

To the other STs, how do you track initiative? Do you use a spreadsheet or a program or do you just jot it down? I'm trying to figure out if there's a better layout or way to do it.

Also, how many enemies have you had your groups fight at most? I'm paranoid that more than 3 statblock'd enemies will make combat a mess.

>>52064196
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mMdPzEAJoFty83K3sekHwVQ_z-Megb34uMP4KAYalZQ/edit?usp=sharing

Not the guy who made it just have a copy of it, but this is pretty handy.

>>52063832

These things are invaluable for a theif. Never worry about actually carrying your stolen loot out of the location again! Just stroll in, wait for no eyes to be upon you, call your egg, load it up, then banish it again and stroll right out. ho hum.

I'm making a Dawn Caste swordsman based off of a mixture Kikuchiyo from Seven Samurai, Mugen from Samurai Champloo and Kamina from YOU KNOW WHO THE HELL HE IS.

I need suggestions for a cool anima. All I got now is gardually increasing fire all over his body. But that feels lame and I am drawing a complete blank on cool stuff.

>>52065184
Give us his defining Intimacies.

>>52065216
While I haven't written them down for mechanics, he's a free soul, who fears being locked down and deprived of his possibility of up and just going. He has had a mean streak for a few years but has had a rediscovery of self and is now filled with determination to fight for justice, protect the weak and look good while doing it. He is a braggard, a loud mouth, and more often than not an exaggerator. He will unabashedly tell people of his grand adventures and deeds, and is the sort of "a woman in each port" type of man.

>>52065184
A large cat, appropriate to his region. Like a tiger or a lion or something.

>>52065268

A broken chain, signifying freedom of the soul.

>>52065268
Maybe an eagle or cat.

>>52065184

Since he sounds like a larger-than-life person that's more about the concept of good in himself than rather than ideals that may exist independently of him, I suggest a large avatar representative of an idealized/stylized/divine version of himself. The embodiment of his divine exaltation that can no longer be contained in mortal flesh.

Something that speaks out "This is what I truly am. Perhaps what you -could- be."

(much like a Stand, or that Super TTGL thing from the movie, except it is nothing but an image if by itself... your character will be stunting/creating charms to make it do cool things as allowed by the GM)

>>52065289
>>52065527
>>52065748
>>52065799
All great ideas, thanks guys!

how many manses can a single exalt safely attune?

>>52066953

It costs nothing to attune to a manse, but attunement lapses after (Essence) months if you don't have the hearthstone.

Do people name their children weird funky names or is that an exaltation thing? I'm 99% positive that's the case for the abyssals, but I wasn't sure about cases like Prince Diamond. Is it more of an alias you designate, or is it inherent to the exaltation?

>>52067435
They're fun names though, anybody make any memorable ones of that sort?

>>52067435
>but I wasn't sure about cases like Prince Diamond
Chink/Nip have names like that, for example Ma Chao in DW literally means "Horse Super"
>>52067452
Mine from anathema was "Invisible Paradise"

>>52067435

It's a mix. Some people legit have names like that, some have regular names go by, some inherit a title along with the Exaltation, Abyssals cast away their birth names and pick up the weirdest ones.

>>52067435
As >>52067648 said, many cultures name their children something that translate as pretty straight forward names or adjectives in English, perhaps losing the nuance and context that would clearly denote them as a name in their original language.

>>52067435
I think names like Quiet Lotus are often sort of nicknames. Names like Sand or Cotton might be birth-names.

Is there any other Yozi charm beside Godscorch Invective to hit immaterial enemies?

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>>52069074
Kimbery might have one.

What diaklaves have people had in their games?

>>52064422

As long as you're willing to spend 40 motes to bring it in and out again.

>>52068472

This is true even in English. My daughter's name means "God's Oath" (Isobel). My brother's name means "Bent Nose" (Cameron). My mother's name means "Garden of Hollies" (Lesley).

Some of the fruity names in Exalted are just this - names that are quite normal in their native tongue, but that seem exotic to us when translated.

Abyssals are given new names by their Deathlords, I believe, and some other Exalted take on grandiose titles of their own choosing.

>>52065184
A drill going to the heavens

What are all of the possible ways some asshat could start with resources or influence 5? Aside from Dynasts, he doesn't want to be connected.

>>52071763

Resource 5, he's going to be connected to someone. Remember, resources represents an ongoing income, not just a static value - you don't bring in millions a week without connecting with other people.

If the only people he wants to be connected to are Dynasts, then I guess he's from a dynastic house. For him to have that level of income - and a comensurate position in the house - he'd have to have been faking a Terrestrial Exaltation, probably for quite a while, so I hope the rest of his character's skills are up to that.

How do I fix Witness to Darkness so I can buy GYTB without throwing away Charisma?

>>52071892
That's no a reason. That's a tangentially related effect and still does not justify the influence,except for when you DUMP that amount of money to gain it. Even then you'd have to justify why you're one of the richest persons in creation.

>>52071763
The asshat was secretly the lastest bastard sired by an ultra-rich, ultra-eccentric Ragara, and came into an inherentence as unexpected as it is enormous.

This is going to attract a bunch of resentment from the Dynast's legitimate descendants, obiously.

This only justifies Ressources 5.

Having trouble coming up with a name for my four-dot artifact, could use some help if anyone here is good with that sorta stuff.

The artifact is a reaper daiklave made from an alloy of red jade and orichalcum, designed to work with sorcery sort of like a spellsword. It was given to my fire aspect by an Ifrit Lord he befriended and made a sorcerous pact with after the two fought each other to a draw. Said Ifrit forged it himself, starting when the fire aspect started learning sorcery under him.

Any general ideas for names that's come to mind?

>>52071763
Rakshaka plot

>>52073093
Golden Flame

>>52072525

There's a custom malfeas charm that does the exact opposite of WTD(protects against getting blinded by flashes, bucks manipulation, etc) which specifies that if you combine it with WTD everything from both charms cancels each other out except for the protection against basically any sort of blinding effect.

On the one hand I want to say that sort of thing is going against the spirit of the splat, but on the other, rubbing the charms from two yozis together in that way is kind of interesting and seems like a very smooth way to 'discover' the idea if heresy in-character.

>>52073912
>There's a custom malfeas charm that does the exact opposite of WTD
Homebrew right? Name?
>>52073912
>rubbing the charms from two yozis together in that way is kind of interesting and seems like a very smooth way to 'discover' the idea if heresy in-character.
Nah, I once ask myself what would happen if I take Running to Forever and Tidal Renewal Discipline at the same time, my conclusion is if I'm on land I have to run to respire motes, if I'm under water I just need to mediate.

>>52071763
Be the king of a Threshold nation.

>>52064235
>Make a Copy and play with yourself!
>play with yourself
o-okay

>>52069074
Cecelyne has charms that lets you attack spirits and let other people attack them

I'm glad that Onyx Path is taking a slow and steady approach to Exalted now in order to assure at least decently quality content, as opposed to 2e's fast but oftentimes shitty release pace, but considering how long it's taken just to get the corebook out, I'm wondering if there's a point where OPP's Exalted releases become so slow that people who want non-Solar, non-DB content start losing interest in the game. Personally, my favorite part of Exalted was the Alchemicals and Autochthonia, but at this point I'm starting to worry that I'll already be raising kids by the time 3e Alchemicals is published. I'm still very excited for the new edition, but that same interest is also very diminished by the rate they're going.

>>52073982
>Homebrew right?
yes

Name?
I forget, but I'll sift through my saved stuff and see if I can't find it for you

>>52074383
>so slow that people who want non-Solar, non-DB content start losing interest in the game
They might be playing Godbound and Scion 2e in the mean time
>I'll already be raising kids
>kids
You can have them play small campaigns with heroic mortals

>>52074383

Yeah. As someone who likes Abyssals and Sids I'm going to be waiting a damn long time.

At least with Abyssals I can run 'Reskinned Solar'. Not so much with Sids.

making individual splat's should take less time since the don't have to work on balancing the core rules and mechanics of the system, right? RIGHT?

>>52073093
The scorching Pact

>>52074578
It *should*, yes, but *will* it? That's the question.

>>52074578
Arms of the Chosen is taking so long because they decided to totally rewrite the Artifact/Evocation systems they had written, so... who knows

>>52075494

>rewrite the Artifact/Evocation systems they had written,

Rewritten. This is their third write up. I'm admittedly curiously as to what it's like, as I preferred the Evocations in the leak to the ones in the core.

>>52074476
The Sidereals:Where Fate has Led homebrew is pretty good

>>52075494

Sure, but evocations are noticibly more broken than anything else so repairing them makes sense. there isn't much else in need of overhaul.

>>52075574
I haven't seen the leak yet, what were evocations like in it?

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>>52075649

Evocations were divided into tiers, much like sorcery, and only certain Exalts could reach certain tiers. Solars were the best, then DBs, and Sidereals were the worst. Lunars lost the ability to use Evocations in their Warforms. The amount of dots an Artefact had determined the amount of Evocations it could have, which at the very least gave a way to determine whether the daiklave you want to craft should be three dots or four.

>>52075574
The devs have said something like wanting to make owning an Artifact like owning a Ferrari, with all sorts of bells and whistles. So probably a lot more like the leak.

>>52075718
Neat, thanks for the info

>>52075718
>>52075649
They were also a lot more interesting in the leak, charm-wise.

Ice Mirror had ice and mirrors combined into a single delicious package: from pillars of ice to generating illusions and redirecting an incoming attack, like a mirror. An entire tree of true goodness.

Or that Wood Dragon Tooth that had poisons but also cherry blossoms charm. And poisoned cherry blossoms. And cherry blossoms from poison. Good stuff.

Even Volcano Cutter, the simple flaming swerd, had volcanoes, eruptions and ashes it its themes.

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>>52075917

What was truly interesting about them is that each one was a fighting style unto itself, and a single artefact was something you built upon like its own character, and would last you the entire campaign on its own.

Newfag questions:

Is it worth taking Dodge alongside Melee, since Parry and Evasion are mutually exclusive?

What armor class is best? Does medium armor have value, or should you just go light or heavy?

Regarding short daiklaves, you get two for a single Artifact merit. Do you have to pay attunement for both?

Is there a guide for 3e character creation? I know about attribute costs, and I'm trying to figure out what I should leave chargen with. I'd also like advice on charms.

>>52077167

>Is it worth taking Dodge alongside Melee, since Parry and Evasion are mutually exclusive?

You can take Doge as well as Melee, but buying up the parry tree in Melee will be a bit redundant.

>What armor class is best? Does medium armor have value, or should you just go light or heavy?

No class is "best" you always have to choose between higher dodge or higher soak. If it's artefact armour, you also need to take attunement costs into account. Medium armour tends to be the heaviest you can take for certain MA styles.

>Do you have to pay attunement for both?

No.

>Is there a guide for 3e character creation?

Easily the most difficult question. There's a number of spreadsheets for helping you stat your char, though.

Don't completely negelect combat charms. usually an excellency is enough, though. If you fail a roll outside combat, no biggie. In combat, you could die.

Can you use a stunt to allow you to parry a ranged attack?

Is there a charm to do that? I'd like to play a character that cuts projectiles out of the air.

>>52077609

Stunting is not needed to parry a ranged attack unless a) you're trying to parry the attack with your bare hands b) AND the attack will deal lethal damage instead of bashing. Same rule applys to parrying a sword with your bare hands.

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>>52076377
>pic
>homestuck intensifies

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>>52077772

Just be glad that the comic's over.

>>52078109
Yellow Jade?

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>>52078166

Orichalcum, it's in the filename.

>>52078166
>>52078189
Doesn't look awesome enough for orichalcum and yellow jade was a thing

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>>52078229

Yellow jade was a mistake.

Is there a good Lunar homebrew? I know a good abyssal, DB, and Sidereal homebrew, but I can't seem to find a good or mostly complete 3e Lunar.

Also in the in book 3e sheet, what are the lines after abilities for? Jotting down specialties, or just decoratory?

Regarding the bond between solars and lunars, how exactly does it work? How exactly did it work for both sides in 2e and how will it likely be/is it in 3e?

Sometimes when I'm looking at homebrew Infernal charms I will see mins or prerequisites of [Yozi Name] 0 or [Yozi Name] 1. What do those mean?

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>>52078255
The Creation Ruling Mandate was aa mistake

>>52078594
probably minimum amount of charms from those yozi

>>52078552
lunars get some charms to help their mate, solaroids get exemptions from limit gain around their lunar, and theres a couple solar charms to take advantage of their lunar because 2e's fluff made it rapey as hell and they wanted a charm to nod to that(despite having lines insisting they were usually nice and only sometimes sexual the only written up examples were terrible or of abusive relationships)

>>52078552
Pretty much a one-way trackfor thelunar to become the solars bitch, losing dice against him in social combat and being able to channel bond into dice when acting on the behalf of her mate if I'm not mistaken.
Lunar taming leash is a real bitch.

>>52078636
but mostly for all the fuss over it, it didn't do all that much

>>52072525
not "fixing" that is kind of the point of the charm

>>52078724
But not one of being infernal.
An exercise in Ingenuity indeed.

>>52067435
vaguely racist pseudo-asian wordsalad name combined with fantasy barbarian wordsalad name combined with solars giving themselves pretentious silly titles and everybody else just going along with it because they're solars

>>52068472
not usually in a language that's actually spoken though, I usually pretend the funky names are in old realm so the fire tongue speaking parents just thought it sounded pretty or knew the translation as a bit of trivia, like the examples you're quoting

>>52078774
I mean, have you TRIED telling the murder solaroid dawn his name is fuckin' dumb?

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>>52072525
Cool shades.

>>52072972

No it doesn't - in E3, Resources is a revenue stream, not a lump of cash. If he inherited it, he'd then have to manage it, or take over his father's business interests - and to keep it going, he'd need to invest it, and generally be connected to a trade empire.

There's just no way to have high Resources, and not be connected to the rest of society.

>>52074476
Same for me and Infernals. I've pretty much accepted that by the time the new Infernals book is out, my interest in this game will probably be long dead, except as a passing fancy. On top of that, from what I gathered from the "preview", OPP is doing away with all the things that made Infernals special mechanically, and in part thematically, and reducing to Abyssals 2.0; i.e. "We're EXACTLY like Solars! Only green and edgy!" Fuck me, I really hope that isn't the case anymore or at all, or I'm chucking this whole edition in the bin.

>>52074383
My wife was pregnant when the Kickstarter was first announced. My daughter turns 4 soon.

>>52075574

As standalone charm trees, the evocations in the leak were pretty cool. As something that is supposed to be an adjunct to a character rather than their sole investment, there were just far too many per artifact.

Plus, as something I was supposed to homebrew, 20-charm trees were far more intimidating than the handful in the core.

>>52073982

found it

Glaring Sun’s Subtlety
Cost: -, Mins: Essence 2, Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
Malfeas’ fetich is the blinding green sun, Ligier, and no lesser light can faze him. He ignores any penalties and sensory impairment caused by bright light, treating it as a clear day. This attunement to light has a cost, increasing the penalty caused by shadowy illumination or darkness by one.
Should the Infernal suffer a Crippling effect that blinds her, she may perfectly ignore the effect as a defense to see clearly. However, for as long as this benefit is used, Primordial Essence leaks from the eye (or socket), making this Charm Obvious. The player defines how the leakage manifests.
Finally, no lesser force than her own can penetrate the Infernal’s will. She adds her essence rating to her MDVs against Charisma based social attacks and as bonus successes to recognise or study such passions. Her forceful nature makes it harder to deceive, however, imposing an internal penalty of her essence rating to any Manipulation based social attack.
A character who possesses both this charm and Witness to Darkness gains neither benefit nor penalty from either in respect to social attacks – understanding both force and guile, she receives a single bonus die on either, and to her MDV pools, but otherwise uses Charisma and Manipulation as normal

>>52078955
Here's hoping the dragons grace her soon.

>>52078936

I thought Abyssals and Infernals made really great "villain-solars" in distinct ways. Abyssals had twisted mockeries of Solar powers, but thematically were their own crazy thing with all the feudalism of death and regret stuff. Infernals were just the opposite with thematics revolving around a twisted vision of the Solars' "rightful rulers of creation returning" thing, but powers that were completely off the wall bonkers and uniquely theirs.

Thse are exactly the directions you want to go with 'badguy versions of _____' splats and exalted nailed both of them.

It'll be a real some if the fuck all that up in the edition change.

>>52079453
Lillun

What's your method or style of running, STs?

I like how elaborate but very open the setting is but I'm not the greatest at detailing or explaining everything. I tend to forget half the languages they'd need, I avoid most of the details on currency almost wholesale, and I've only got like scarce location and canon npc info memorized. My biggest saving graces are improv and well run slightly gonzo combat/action.

>>52079372
but then she can't be a solar (except that one double exalt but he was a snowflake among snowflakes so we can't count on that)

>>52079473
meh, easy enough to remove only that without completely fucking over infernals making them like lunars from edition to edition with no clear theme

>>52079871
No, I mean they can't fuck infernals over worse than THE ENTIRE FIRST HALF OF THEIR RESPECTIVE BOOK IN 2E

>>52079473

what about her?

>>52079473
>>52079915
>I am incapable of separating chaff from wheat

>>52079850

I would rather my children be terrestrials, since that means the world rending power of exaltation will pass down along my line forevermore, even if it's somewhat less world rending power than a one off solar kid might have.

>>52080045
I do eat the bones of my chicken wings, yes, why are you asking?

>>52079850
Because what >>52080074 said
Also, would you mind speaking a few prayers while I get the monk...?

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I wrote up this Solar Circle Sorcery for a game I'm in.

I think it could use some balancing, what do you guys think? Too much? Too little?

>>52079915
Ehhh, I don't see what all the fuss was about. As far as I'm concerned, all that was pretty normal for White Wolf. If they didn't write like 14 year old edgelords, they weren't doing their job.

>>52079218
Hey thanks, but what about sight bonus and penalty though? Do they cancel each other out or I can look clearly both in the light and dark?

>>52079453
Yeah, see, that's what concerned me. It's been a long time since I read the previews, and honestly, I'm not at all interested enough in going through them again, but from what I remember, they totally reversed Aybssals and Infernals around, so the former had super special Charms, while Infernals got stuck with "copypaste Solar charms with Yozi names slapped on". I think it was the whole Devil Tiger path and the fact that 2e Infernal charms made them incredibly versatile at just about anything except combat that bugged the devs. If so, it's complete bullshit. I LIKED working my way up to eventually becoming my own Yozi. I LIKED that instead of being the best special snowflake, I could become the whole fucking blizzard.

>>52078936
Same :(

>>52080074
Sensible

>>52081293
you pay a charm solely to be rid of witness to darkness

>>52081305
>I LIKED that instead of being the best special snowflake, I could become the whole fucking blizzard.
oy vey why don't you buy our newest Exalted splat Exigent book to become the very Exalted of yourself?
>>52081374
Nah that's better, at least I get to use all the good charms (Our Little Secret, Dark Mirror Shintai) locked behind WtD.

>>52081112
>The Ten Thousand League Traveler takes the form of any mode of transportation desired

So like a Kireeki-Class Assault Skyreme or a Titan Class Aerial Citadel?

Honestly though, for a Magic Schoolbus Spell it looks okay to me, though I would probably remove the ability to heal it since it's fairly pointless. With a minimum Essence of 5 to cast, it'll be flying at 750 mph which is pretty much faster than anything in the setting.

>>52081751
>Magic Schoolbus Spell

Welp. Now I can't unsee it.

So if you take The Burning Name merit, you get a thrown attack that rolls (Int+Occult), but how does that work? Do you use Occult or thrown excellencies? Can you use Thrown charms? You presumably still need to buy into Thrown to get the charms, so what are you really getting besides a thrown weapon that will never run out of ammo?

Anyone have any pictures of the Yozis or Incarnae? Official or otherwise?

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>>52082268
Not official but I really like this one

>>52082301
Do you know who all of them are?
I think I recognize Hegara, Cecelyne, and Sacheverell in the first row. In the second I think the last three are Ebon Dragon, Isidoris, and SWLIHN.

>>52082426
From left to right
Oramus, Adorjan, Kimbery, Cecelyne, Hegra, Szoreny, Sacheverel
Elloge, Malfeas, Metagaos, Qaf, TED, Isidoros, SWLiHN

>>52082301

Jen is great. What do we need to do to get a regular drawfag in here?

>>52082062
you have eye lasers

>>52082572

Cool and interesting, but that doesn't answer my question about the mechanics. Relatedly, Cirrus Skiff allows you to use (Wits+Occult) in place of standard movement rolls. How does that effect rushes and disengaging?

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>>52074383
If it's any consolation, here's a 3e Alchemicals homebrew that was posted in the last thread. Dunno how good it actually is, since I don't have any friends to play Exalted with, but give it a go, if you want.

>>52081293

You can see fine always. Perfect effects>penalty increases.

>>52082062
The definition of the Thrown tag and the Thrown skill suggests you can use Thrown charms, but I believe you would use the Thrown skill instead of Occult--the Thrown tag is defined by the use of Thrown, and even applies to weapons that are not typically thrown but can be used as such, like the club.

So, in short, I think you can either use Int+Occult or Dex+Thrown. Maybe haggle with your ST if you'd rather use Int+Thrown or some combination thereof. When you use one skill, you use that skill's excellency and charms.

>>52079589

Sandbox. But we tend to stay in one direction, so languages is only a thing if you're dealing with the realm, or primitive tribes. Nobody at my table cares how much an obol is, or whether its in scrip or jade. I tend to make up NPC info on the fly, unless its one of the handful of canon NPCs I've pre-researched.

>>52082719

As a side note I'll be making one last version of this when Warstrider rules come out.

>>52083554
warstrider kungfu? or to emulate the colossus essence level?

>>52083757

The colossi expansion levels would probably have to wait for another day, but at the very least one of the spells Alchemical has involves summoning a remote control Warstrider, so that's something that needs adjusting.

One of the MA's I wrote works with Warstriders already, Ironheart Destroyer may be modern only but its literally Gundam Heavyarms the Martial art.

I do have plans involving large Alchemicals though, neither Colossi nor cities but I'll see if I can finish them along with the rest of project I'm making. Assuming if they're feasible in the first place, I just have the idea in my head.

>>52083554
>Warstrider rules

But I thought the setting was moving away from magitech?

>>52084084

It is. Doesn't mean it won't have warstriders though. It just means that they are unique relics from a lost age, or hoarded superweapons of forgotten technology, not number 73 to come off the assembly line today.

>>52084146

>if we make the magitech more important the setting gets less magitech!

Somehow, i believe the believe that.

>>52084452
Warstriders are being kept because they are iconic. I don't expect 3E will go into the details of their construction, maintenance, or fuel requirements and what have you. Instead they will basically be big statues made from the magical materials that you can get inside and use as a big magical body. Kind of like a Vimana from Indian myth, but person shaped

>>52084605
Yeah the aesthetic is more golem you control rather than machine you pilot.

I know the consensus is that 2e is rocket tag and really just a big mess. 3e is mechanically sound but it's gonna take forever to get anything. How does 1e hold up? Is it a good middle-ground? Anybody still play 1st?

>>52081305
lol what the hell one of the example infernal charms was a stealth charm that made you reflexively attack anything in range if you detected them.

>>52085334
2e combat takes figuratively forever.

1e combat takes literally forever.

>>52084452
The intention was never to completely abandon magitech, merely to have it be present as incredibly rare and incredibly valuable remnants of the First Age. Obviously this means that individual pieces of magitech will be a big fucking deal. It doesn't really make magitech more important, though. Something that rare can be ice to have, it can give you an important edge in some situations, but you can't really build an empire on it or anything like that.

>>52085488
Unless you are the Scarlet Empress

thoughts on modding the familair background to give a sparrow spirit charms?

>>52086358

Depends on the charms.

>>52082504
Openinga portal to malfeas and feed the souls of half our population to a demon of the second circle, the rest of s shall worship it forever moreand it MIGHT become our drawfag. Or we get Octavian and die horribly

>>52087105

nah, just be the change you wanna see and sell your own family to a demon for a possibility at demonic art skill.

>>52087123
Berengiere would still make beautiful tapestries for us...

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>>52084452
The issue is not magitech. The issue is how poorly handled magitech was in 2e.

In essence, 2e's magitech had two big problems: It was mass producible and thematically bland.

When you have rules to mass produce magitech, when the primary players of the setting can churn magitech from their factories (The Realm, Lookshy, Heaven, Underworld, Malfeas, even Paragon), you suddenly have a setting that is about the magitech you can produce and not about the exalted heroes that survives in it. Magitech should not be mass producible. Ideally, Magitech should not be producible at all any more.

Secondly, 2e's magitech was thematically empty. TES' Dwemers have magitech, but they do it by systematically breaking reality with a mix of applied nihilism, brass gods, manipulating souls, and a hivemind. That's thematically awesome. In comparison, 2e's magitech is magical robots/planes/tanks powered by magical electricity from the time where magical internet and magical computers were a reality.

As long as the two issues are solved, I'm perfectly fine with magitech in Exalted.

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>>52087948
By instance, if you say that every instance of magitech works by breaking a part of Autochtonia's souls into the working of Creation, disrupting fate and inviting upon the world the taint of the Great Maker, I'd gladly accept it.

>>52087948
I'll never be able to unsee the anatomy FAILURE in this picture

Is Contagion of Law any good? I'm running an Abyssal game for a friend and we just wrapped up our first story arc (loosley) based off Daughter of Nexus. I'm really just looking at the character roster and basic premise/setting, I don't plan to follow the encounters and such too closely. I'm terribad at basic story hooks and NPC creation so I wanted to lift off prewritten adventures.

>>52078955
When she is of age, she might be graced with the 3e Dragonblooded book.

>>52082478
Hooray got one right

>>52088225
eh I'd still fuck her

>>52088582
BACKWARDS thumbs.
That'd be an awkward handjob.

>>52088444
Nah, All adventures are pretty shitty

>>52088807
>Nah, All adventures are pretty shitty
What's wrong with them in general?

>>52082719
what is all that mark bullshit up top?

>>52082301
>>52082478
Isidotos is too cute in this.
I have mistaken Adorjan for Metagaos, reason being the black and white leaves and the infamous sentence about there being neither color, hope or time in the depths of metagaos: he ate them all.
Kimberry works kinda if you go with a 'wild primal ocean' interpretation
Hegra and Oramus have got to be twins according to this and Oramus 'dragon' nature is very subdued
I am very happy I got Qaf right
Ted is very good hinted by the black sun and the marriage garb
Also Elloge a cutie

>>52088822

The problem is that adventures are, of necessity, somewhat on rails, whereas the whole point of playing a Solar Exalted is that you tear up rails with your bare hands, twist them into pretzels, and beat the Storyteller's favourite NPC to death with them.

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>>52088822
Dungeons don't work in Exalted, because most exalts can bypass any dungeon with incredible ease, and have no need for wealth or xp from monsters. Exalted is all about creative problem solving using phenomenal cosmic power. A dungeon that needs to be cleansed can be nuked from afar; one that has something you want can be solved by brainwashing a legion of followers who will explore it for you. Any puzzle can be solved trivially by using superhuman abilities, and walls can be taken down with ease.

Some adventures (esp. 1e) try to do dungeons and absolutely fail at it.

Some other adventures are more open, but they still assume the players will stay in a city or do something in particular. Some assume the Solars won't try to brainwash half the city by noon, and that's wrong - others assume they can be cowered and need for stealth, when a reasonable party can go gun blazing and still win.

They also give you premade characters, and that's removing half the fun of Exalted.

The best 'adventures' are the one that are completely open ended. RotSE has a lot of bad rep, but is actually relatively coherent and reasonably good in my book. It is the pinnacle of what an Exalted campaign can be.

Anybody got a 2e chargen lunar sheet sitting around I could have a look at? I've never built one before and don't know what charms are considered must have from the start

>>52078552

in 3e its going to either be gone outright or heavily nerfed and only available if the Lunar buys it up

how would you describe it if you want a charm to have commited motes be returned when the charm ends? "invested motes"?

>>52089448

Isn't that how committed motes work? Don't they say "uncommitted?"

>>52089448
Why not just "commited motes" or "motes commited for this charm"?

>>52089448
Standing commitment us always refunded, like breaking attunement yourself. the motes are just commited not spent.

>>52089184

Pretty sure most of the dislike for RotSE was due to the metaplot stuff, not actual quality.

>>52090139
This

>>52089778
>>52089538
>>52089479

oh, thanks. I guess we've been doing it wrong all along. That makes this "houserule" easier to implement....we'll just drop the accidental one to do it otherwise. Somehow I was under the impression that committed motes were consumed, both spent and unable to regenerate until the commitment ends.

>>52085730
The Sword of Creation was integral for defeating the Balorian Crusade and founding the Realm, sure. The Realm as it is not isn't really built on it, though.

>>52090325
Like a constant draw I mean.

Anyone have any cool ideas for shaping rituals for a shrine maiden who knows terrestrial sorcery?

>>52090325
I'm not quite sure what you're saying but just to verify, any committed motes are tied up for the duration of the Charm and once the Duration ends those motes disappear, having been spent.

If you have 40m and spend 10m on a scene long Charm, your mote cap becomes 30, those 10 are being used for the Charm, then when the scene ends, those 10m disappear and you're cap goes back up to 40m, but you don't get those 10m back, you'd still be at 30.

>>52091339
Okami https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/constellations-worm-okami.414320/page-485#post-31480952

>>52091640
Actually your mote cap becomes (your mote cap - 10)

>>52091339
Shrine to what?

By any chance is the guy who made https://loom.webtelligence.com.au/#/ in this thread? If so, there's a bug where the popup showing how many charms, specialties, ability dots, etc that you've used shows more than you have. I've 14 charms and it says I've 15 when I'm in the charms tab, and when I'm in the traits tab it says I've 4 specialties when I've 3. This error only occurs in the tab that governs those pieces of chargen, I think what's happening is that it's still counting charms and specialties that I've deleted, but I'm not sure.

Keep up the good work though, it's a great program.

>>52090288
>RotSE 104
>At night, a platoon of ghosts enters Creation through one of these shadowlands. The ghosts of Tzatli are 15 centuries old and powerful. Every ghost has at least Essence 3, knows at least a dozen Charms and likely possesses an artifact weapon. Three ghosts come for every character, and they attack while most characters are asleep. They seek to capture the characters rather than killing them, however, and very probably succeed.

Yeah, a dozen or so Essence 3 ghosts are "probably" going to beat the shit out of a party of Solar Exalted and take them captive. Who the fuck wrote that?

The Return of the Scarlet Empress was a joke, not just for the metaplot but for the fucking retarded adventure in the first place.

>>52085336
Key word: "one".

>>52074383
Lol, by the time we finally get all the splats, D&D will probably be in 9th edition.

>>52092790

I don't know if that's being optimistic about Exalted or pessimistic about D&D.

>>52092895
A D&D edition generally lasts about what? 5 years or so? And they're on 5th edition now and it came out 3 years ago in 2014. So we're probably looking at somewhere around 20 more years or so until the release of 9th edition D&D.

For Exalted, at the current rate, we're looking at one new splat book every 2 years. You have the primary 7 Exalts (Solars, Lunars, Sidereal, Abyssals, Dragon Blooded, Infernals. Alchemicals), plus now Liminals, Gentimians and Exigents for a total of 10 primary Exalted splats, one of which has been published.

So with 9 to go, that means we're looking at about 18 years to see all of the splats published, compared to around 20 years for 9th edition D&D.

So honestly that other anons estimate seems fairly realistic to me.

Need a Name for a god of Music. Anyone have a suggestions?

Do Personas have a supernal?

>>52093168
I'd assume not as that would be absolutely insane

>>52093102
Based, God of Music

>>52093191
What happens when I use Soul reprisal then? Does my new self still have a supernal and do I start off on it at 100% exp- the 20 spent on the charm or 75% exp - the 20 spent on the charm?

>>52092476

I'll see if I can reproduce this. Best in mind that if you open the pop-up to add a new charm, it is supposed to show your current charms + 1 - it includes the charm you're in the process of adding. Ditto for specialisations.

>>52092610

Assuming the party is all sleeping in different rooms, it's not unreasonable that most of then would be taken. Not every Solar is balls-deep in a combat tree, and has awareness charms to let them detect ghosts while they sleep.

>>52092762
One out of how many Charms, exactly?

>>52093660
I think that anon means it has you attack the first thing you encounter, not everything in range

>>52092980
Just one splat every two years is absolutely no way to run a successful game franchise. It'd kill any and all optimism and interest for Exalted. It's obvious that OPP will prioritize the "core" and new Exalts over the peripheral ones like Infernals and Alchemicals. For someone like me, who's a fan of both, it's not encouraging at all to think that I'll have to wait almost 20 years for them. Hell, by the time they're finally out, I think most players will have gotten more used to playing with homebrews instead. I'm already nervous enough wondering if Lunars are finally gonna be worth a damn. I sincerely hope OPP has a much better release schedule than "two years, one splat". Hell, I hope it's better than "one year, one splat".

>>52092438
Not sure yet, some sort of small local spirit who used to be a Big Deal in their village ages ago, but now she's basically the only one who tends to the shrine and makes offerings and whatnot.

>>52094159
I'd hate the 'peripheral Exalts' as you called them being pushed back far.
As I said, infernals are conceptual awesome, as are their charms and they should get the guy who wrote them into their boat for this.

>>52094425
They're peripheral in the sense that they're relatively inconsequential to the overall story of Exalted. The Abyssals already fill the role of "evil Solar counterparts", and they, the Deathlords, and Neverborn are a far bigger threat than the Infernals and Yozi can ever be.

As for Alchemicals, even though they were by far the best designed Exalts ever in theme and mechanics (most likely because they were the last ones written and therefore learned from all past mistakes), there's no question that they are completely and utterly irrelevant to Creation, due to them all being isolated on a Primordial worldship hurtling through the void. The only way they ever show up at all on Creation is through some Storyteller McGuffin. I love Infernals and Alchemicals, I really do, but they don't matter as much as the rest, and they'll pretty much always be at the back of the production line.

>>52088807
>BACKWARDS thumbs.
She's extending her pinky. Everyone's thumbs are in their normal anatomical positions.

t. someone with thumbs

>>52094963
That's what he meant?
I was wondering the fuck they were talking about.

>>52094159
Honestly I"m kind of wondering if Holden might be dead or something here let alone the rest of the writers.

>>52094963
My props if you manage near 90 degree movement with your pinky. to the side.

>>52094933
Infernals are not evil solars and never should be. They should be alien, strange and, by their very nature, terrifying. Things like resting while dashing and coughing up radioactive fire or eadible insects from the desert sands.
They should unify the terrible presence and awesomeness inherent in being a first age solar and channel it through the intense cosmic idiocy and power into hobbling themselves in strange ways and gaining reasoning defying powers. They should channel the power of the idiot-savants that are the yozi to transcend them. They should be, by their very nature, relevant to creation like their counterparts.

>>52095372
Looking at >>52087948 it's not anywhere near 90 degrees. Her palm is also at an angle, and she's resting it on the ledge. Those finger positions are pretty easy to mimic with a normal human hand.

>>52094030
Seems more like he was referencing the "one of Adorjan's Stealth charms" part of the statement, as if he believed that one Charm would be the exception and the rest of the Infernal charmset would mostly consist of bland Solar knockoff Charms. I disagree with this assumption.

>>52087948
You forgot the third problem with magitech: it was treated like the ultimate form of artifice, as if magitech artifacts were generally more advanced and effective than the equivalent "normal" artifacts, and the sort of thing which any artificer of sufficient skill would prefer to create. It's like your Glorious Solar Plate was just the first level of artifact armor, and the Level 2 upgrade would be orichalcum-moonsilver alloy powered armor with starmetal targeting circuits, magical laser guns, built-in elemental thrusters for flight, and a miniaturized geomantic reactor to supply it with magical electricity.

Essentially, it worked like mundane technology, where you start with swords and shield and horses, then move on to guns and cars and computers which are more advanced and effective. That isn't how they want artifacts to be portrayed; now they're trying to rework it so that magitech is just one option for an artifact's aesthetic, and artifacts that aren't "futuristic machines but based on magical physics" will be equally valid and effective, so that things like a legendary sword forged in a volcano or an enchanted tapestry woven from wind and fate would be just as plot-important and representative of skill as a computerized flying battleship.

>>52096993

Do we know if there'll be guidelines to making magitech and what makes it different from regular artifacts? The core mentions gunzosha armor as an example of first age artifice, but despite having rules for that, we don't know what's so special about it.

>>52095575
And yet something tells me OPP will fuck up like White Wolf often did and write Infernals as Slaanesh-Lite edgelords.