First, while the Realm has no inherent sexism and treats sexuality as matter-of-fact, it also still treats certain types of sex acts as worthy of condemnation. This is why House Cynis has a reputation for debauchery and spending magical materials as marital aids is considered wasteful. Nobody in the Realm is going to bat an eye if …
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Personally this is a feature not a bug. I would rather play long logistic games with Exalted, and if the players don’t have to obsess over securing some form of prolonged life or immortality than they can instead focus on interesting things like whether to declare war on Paragon over trade sanctions. And if I …
In my games Celestial Exalts do not have empowered children; not godbloods, not gods-in-flesh, not anything. The child of a Solar is a mortal. The Celestial Exaltation was designed explicitly to prevent two things: immortality and dynasty creation. Regardless of how awesome your Essence or mighty your Charms, eventually a Celestial dies and their children …
(in response to a discussion on whether it would be worth taking an Exaltation in the real world if the Great Curse came with it, and whether the effects would be noticeable to the Exalt) The way the curse works is this: You have a general commitment to a certain type of action (being a …
No, it is to the heart of the point. Exalted is a game that rejects the idea that your internal desires will fail to change the world. It is a game where there is no internal/external divide. If you want to accomplish a goal, that goal is external to you because it affects the world.
Primordials are not so much a person or a place as they are an entire Mythos. Each Primordial is a self-contained culture, a cosmos in and of itself that does not rely on outside context. For example, if you took the works of H.P. Lovecraft, then Cthulu would not be a Primordial. Neither would Nylarothep …
The ultimate goal of the Exalted combat Charms should be to force all combat to occur on the scale of human combat; i.e., resolvable by individual heroic human action and the movements of armies. It should basically no sell anything above that. The Exalted Host wasn’t stronger than the Primordials by any objective measure of …
The point of perfects isn’t to render you immune to extras or weak opponents. Even in 2E just having a high enough DV will do that. The point of perfects was to render you impossible to destroy to things significantly outside your weight class. It was to justify the Exalted host slaying the Primordials and …
To put it another way: Charms in Exalted don’t define what is moral. You define what is moral. Then your Charms do what you think is moral. So if you think that maximizing utility while minimizing suffering is moral, your Charms will do that. If you instead think that murder is great and slavery is keen and suffering …
Ultimately it comes down to this: There is no need for sex charms explicitly in the game. They only add controversy. Which isn’t to say that your game can’t include sex charms. But you have to be subtle. Go take a look at SV’s rules for sexual content, and realize that they do not prevent anyone …
