The general intent of Limit Break is that it’s something that won’t actually impact you much if you do exactly what a Solar Exalt shouldn’t. That is, the more you set yourself up with responsibility and power and prestige, the more and more Limit Break is going to screw you over. It’s actually an elegant …
On Loving Adorjan
Loving Adorjan is fine. It’s when she loves you back that things go horribly, horribly wrong.
On the Sacrifice to Learn Sorcery
Only the current one (unless you kill them, of course). Technically, the “sacrifice” is not some magical effect that removes your love for the person (or whatever feeling you have, you need Shun The Smiling Lady or Freedom Let’s Go for that). It’s the prerequisite to getting Sorcery, so you have to give up the …
Fixing the Eclipse Anima
I find that the major problems with the Eclipse power go away when you blanket rule that all permanent Charms can not be learned (and thus ruling out any Charms that use it as a prerequisite). It neatly cuts the knees out of all the Eclipse-based rules raping that I can think of.
On Ebon Dragon Characterisation
Meh, I prefer the Ebon Dragon as he was in the Games of Divinity rather than the Michael Goodwin!Ebon Dragon. The Games of Divinity version was an asshole, but he was an asshole with purpose. He was a shadow of everything, a creature of darkness fascinated with death and who loved all those who were …
On The First versus Second Age
The key thing here is that when it sucks for people in the First Age, it sucks much more than it does in the Second Age. Sure, maybe nobody dies of cholera. But in the Second Age, entire cities aren’t transformed into living crystal or squid-monster. As bad as the Perfect is, he is much nicer than …
How Solar Rule Actually Went
The actual history of the First Age went like this: Solars win! Yeah! Hey, let’s genocide and enslave every nonhuman race because FUCK NONHUMANS! Autochthon: Uh…. BYE NOW! (pop) Gaia: Holy shi… I mean… I must look for the Shining Answer. Love you Luna, later! (fly into the Wyld) Hey, let’s all fight each other …
On Lookshy and the Anathema
In early 1E, Lookshy was just “the Dragonblooded who objected to the Realm and had enough magitech to make that stick”. Other than that, they were often dealt with as Realm Lite, right down to having Wyld Hunts and so on and so forth. This wasn’t really based on anything written about Lookshy in specific, …
On Autochthon and Gremlin Syndrome
The cancer analogy is a pretty good one. It’s not so much that he is actively out to kill himself, as his internal functions are running out of control in a way that is detrimental to his health. In much the same way a malignant tumor in your bone marrow may spread cells into your …
On How Aaron Saw Exalted
That’s the way many people play it, yes. Then there are those of us who fell in love with the very first paragraph of the very first chapter of the very first book. “Before the world was bent but after the Great Contagion, there was a civilization built in the image of the First Age. …