Gods, even high level gods, should be capable of affecting their domains. Otherwise what is the point of them? I’m not talking about in-setting, I’m talking about from a game perspective. If Yu-shan and all its inhabitants are nothing more than distant bureaucrats who can do nothing more than move around paper and be corrupt, then …
Why Heaven Doesn’t Have Printing Presses
One of the things that’s been raised around printing presses in the past is the Aesthetic of Cool – “it’s cooler to have your characters fight while dancing through a hall full of industriously working scribes bent over their desks, using them as footing without disturbing a single one of them, than it is to …
On Whether or Not the Exalted Rule Yu-shan
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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On The Problems With Summoning Elementals, and Solutions
The main problems with Summon Elemental were that a) it wasn’t broken into circles, and b) it was presented as a fact of the nature of all elementals. Thus meaning summoning the Kukla was a valid summon (granted, one likely to get the entire Aerial Legion siced on you before you finished the dozens of …
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