My rule was similar except it was based on the Magnitude Chart. So if a shortsword costs 1 dot, it costs 2 to equip a Magnitude 1 unit and so on. Made it very easy to track expenses since you just went (Magnitude + Resources cost). Oh, and there was some stuff in there about …
How Character Creation Works, and Why
Saying a game should be fun is like saying food should taste good; it’s trivially true but effectively meaningless when you want to discuss how to make food. Just like you have to prepare different foods in different ways depending on the experience you want the dinners to have, you have to design rpg mechanics in …
On The Appearance of Exalted Attacks
How do you describe a Lethal attack that inflict damage on the enemy but have it turn into Bashing ? I’m talking about Crane Form converting all your attack damage into Bashing at step 10, easy to imagine if you already use Bashing weapon like your bare-hands, kinda weird if you use the Style’s weapon …
On the Sidereal Great Curse
The trick to understand about the Sidereal Great Curse is that it doesn’t make you do stupid things, it makes it so that you stop listening to other people. The way the Sidereal Great Curse works is that the more Sidereals agree with a particular decision, the harder it is to convince any Sidereal not to support that decision. …
On How Infinite Primordials Can Be Bound
I think people are confusing “infinite” with “bounded”. The set of all numbers is infinite and unbounded. The set of all even numbers, is infinite and bounded. Thus Malfeas is both infinite and bounded. The Primordials and shinma were created by a math geek, so to understand them you have to understand math.
On Adorjan
Adorjan, the Silent Wind of Malfeas. Once, in the Time Before she was Adrian, the River of All Torments, whose fury drove back all the might of the Exalted until a single Exalt found her fetich soul and slew it. In response to the death of his heart, Adrian dried up and became Adorjan. Adorjan, …
Mass Effect’s Reapers Meet A Yozi
Harbinger: We are the ultimate pinnacle of evolution. She Who Lives In Her Name: EVOLUTION IS AN IMPERFECT PROCESS, A RANDOM COLLECTION OF ENDLESS MISTAKES AND FAILURES CULMINATING FINALLY IN IMPERFECT BEINGS WHOSE ONLY VIRTUE IS THAT THEY FAILED LESS EFFICIENTLY THAN THEIR COUSINS. I BRING THE SOLUTION TO THE FAILURE OF EVOLUTION. I BRING HIERARCHY.
On Lytek and Past Lives as a Background
It is also notable that Lytek, being an Exalted-style god, has his own political agenda. In game he was ousted from the position of head of the Bureau of Humanity when the Solars were ganked. Thus he kind of hates the Sidereals and Dragonblooded a bit and wants them to fall and the Solars to …
On Which Exalts are “Transhuman-friendly”
Define “transhuman”. Nothing prevents a Solar from replacing an arm with a Prosthetic of Clockwork Elegance or injecting themselves with a Chaomorphic Symbiote or undergoing a few treatments with Science of Mutation. In that respect, all Exalts are “transhuman friendly” in that they can certainly have transhuman upgrades just like normal humans. However, Solars are …
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Conviction versus the other Virtues
Conviction (capital C) in Exalted is a stat, one of the four Virtues upon which Creation is metaphysically based (there is a fifth, Willpower, but it is more of a meta-Virtue and closer to what we mean colloquially by conviction in our world). In any effect, Conviction is a stat that can be applied to …