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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Extras were not below enlightened mortals. It was, in fact, possible to be both at the same time. Merely having access to Essence channeling was not enough to make you a Not Extra. A pack of Blood Apes attacking your party were as much Extras as a pack of brigands, just with higher base stats. …
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What makes Martial Arts useful is that they are prepackaged combat styles which require little to no thought for players and STs to invest in. Instead of having to buy a cloud of Charms from three to five different abilities, you invest in a single Charm tree with a predefined path that, when complete, gives …
I think people have a very… shallow understanding of wish fulfillment. See, being able to effortlessly win and never be challenged may be seen as wish fulfillment – and to some people it is – but to many it would not be. Human beings want to be challenged. Even if a human has all their needs …
I find that having Malfeas be nice and huge has two very good effects: 1: It allows me to ignore most of it. I mean, there are a lot of Yozi and demons and so on. Not even getting into first circles, we have 23 Yozi, at least an order of magnitude more Third Circle …
Here is the trick to making cool names and things in Exalted. Start with something cliché, or ridiculous or lame and then disguise it. As my reaction upthread shows, I didn’t realize for years that Death of Obsidian Butterflies was literally a spell for glass cannon wizards, because the spell was disguised. Infallible Messenger was an IM (ie, Instant …
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 …
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 …
