Again, it’s much easier to remove than it is to add. Having a game where the PCs can recreate the High First Age or set up an Indefinite Everybody Lives Happliy Forever After We Mean It is much easier to achieve than a sense of encroaching doom and fading glory that must, inevitably, crumble to dust. There are …
What Ties Creation Together
Creation is diverse and has lots of cool locales for setting a campaign. So is Rifts. Diversity alone isn’t a good thing. What makes Exalted work is that it has diversity but consistency. From The Blessed Isle to Malfeas to the Underworld to the Wyld to Autocthonia to Yu Shan: regardless of where you are, they …
On Borgstromancy
Borgstromancy is the act of revealing setting information via game mechanics. So basically any mechanic which says something definitive about the world is Borgstromancy. For example: Ownership is a metaphysical quality of the universe of Creation. It is defined, in most cases, by the loyalty of the Least Gods of the object in question, whose …
Why The Fair Folk Should be Creation’s Victims
The problem with the “Creation is ultimately insignificant” thing is this: It cuts all narrative heft out of the Fair Folk. If the raksha are not, in fact, the refugees of a massive crime which destroyed their very reality and imposed the horrors of time and distance and direction and death (never forget death) on them, then …
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Why Death is Fundamental to Creation
Why is Death fundamental to Creation in the same way that Linear Time is? I’m sorry, were you not paying attention to what Creation is? Creation is the single most powerful weapon every developed. Oh sure, it’s a place with people in it and lands and seas and air and nations and stuff – but fundamentally, …
How the Wind Works in Creation
Wind is produced by the constant susurration of the Elemental Pole of Air, diverted around the Omphalos and consumed by the Pole of Fire (this is why fire sources in sealed rooms rapidly render you unable to breathe as they consume the Air essence). In the East, the wind is caught by the stretching limbs …
About the Exalted Being Doomed to Failure
(in response to a post claiming they didn’t see the point of playing Exalted, if the original canonical “ending” of the setting where everybody squabbles until the sky caves in and the setting eventually becomes the World of Darkness is taken as factual) This depends on how you define failure. Is everything humanity does pointless …
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Why It Takes Five Days to Reach Malfeas
It’s five days because Cecelyne is the Endless Desert. This means that it’s not exactly pleasant to cross. This means any army that wants to invade Creation from Malfeas, or vice versa, needs to be able to survive five days crossing the harshest possible environment short of Adorjan’s bedroom. It’s five days because even an army of …
On Cytherea
Just keep in mind Cytherea is supposed to be the Big Bang, not a supernova. She’s supposed to be unknown not by choice but by nature. Like, her limitation should be the idea of the Planck time, the fact that we will never know what occurred at the exact instant of the beginning of existence. She’s …
How an Exalt with Excellencies Seems to a Mortal
Imagine the greatest speech, the most powerful moving piece of persuasion you can remember from human history. Maybe it’s Dr/ King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ or JFK ‘Ask not what your country can do for you’ or Lincoln’s ‘Four Score and Seven Years’ or the Nuremberg rallies or whatever. Now imagine someone who gives that …
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