(in response to a post suggesting Solar animas should do damage like Dragonblooded ones do) I think animas should leave marks on the environment, but I don’t like the idea of every Solar literally being a DBZ character causing any mortals nearby to explode if they get too close. One of the things I liked …
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If the Empress isn’t the immortal, monolithic individual of canon, but merely the first or latest in a line of tyrants, wouldn’t the Sidereals have somewhat greater control over the Dynasty AND have wrested control of the Imperial Manse? – Sunder The Gold Why? No, seriously, why? Keep in mind that, as we are talking …
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The Creation Ruling Mandate is based on the authority invested in Queen Merela the Exalted by the Unconquered Sun. The Unconquered Sun is also head of the Divine Bureaucracy and has mandated the control of Yu-Shan to heavenly bureaus. Therefore, if you’re going to base your mandate on way Sol says, the Exalted run Creation and the …
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Nothing, technically, prevents a God from taking up residence in the Underworld. Like, if his domain is destroyed or taken over by another God and he has a pack of Immaculates out for his permanent dissolution then he may very well end up hanging out in the Underworld at the place analog to his old …
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The big link in pre-3e Exalted between the mechanics and the themes is that Exalted is an exception-based game system and the characters are exceptional. Exalted spends a great deal of time explaining how the nitty-gritty details of the game world interact with the rules. It has detailed rules for combat that include stuff like how …
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Well, it also has the problem in that it completely destroys the entire setting and the entire past of the setting in one stupid idea. The problem with all the neat ideas about Infernals is that Infernals can not be more powerful than Solars. This is a truism of the setting. Solars are the most powerful …
A lot has been said about dice, but I think you have to carefully consider if you want the dice to be important at all. For example, while D&D 5E has a fairly high variance dice roll mechanic, in the long run the game is not actually about dice rolls at all. The reason the game …
The death of a Third Circle, for that matter, is probably going to be an Event. They don’t tend to die soft quiet deaths like a human passing away in his bed. The death throes of a Primordial soul is going to be a miniature cataclysm all its own, especially when you perma-kill it. … …
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There are two competing theories. In one theory Oblivion is the calcified and congealed hate of the Neverborn, their manifest desire to cease given location, if not necessarily form. In this theory Oblivion is merely the result of their nature as dead-but-dreaming corpses. The only reason they continue to exists is because their hate for …
Mass Enlightenment should sound like a good idea… until you begin to realize how terrible an idea it is. For example, the difficulty to weave Fate for a section of Creation is based on the Magnitude of the people that live in that area. So an area with a Magnitude of 10 had difficulty 10 to weave …
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