New person here. Here are the questions I'm interested in

actually, dude, this is what the ancient users of the site used to call a "thread", an archaic construct from the old days where people didnt exclusively post generals on Veeky Forums. a thread can stay on topic, or even go off topic. theyre quite something.

give me an example. I know general premise about Exalted setting. In what way does 2nd edition fucks it up? Also was 2nd edition that bad they retconned it backwards for 3ed?

Woah man stop, we're here to discuss about Exalted, not posting into a stupid "thread" about edition war or something.

2E wasn't too bad at the start. By the end it'd gone full gonzo. Like, sun is a giant robotic ship gonzo. Everything was anime turned up to 11. Which isn't necessarily bad, but it's not the mythical heroes fighting in a doomed world that sold the game initially.

It also had this conceit where the game mechanics were the in-world physics, which lead to all sorts of stupidity.

Incidentally, the people who turned the sun into a giant robotic ship are the people writing 3E. Have fun!

Eh, they wrote what the line wanted. At that time, what the line wanted was stupid.

I have issues with 3E, but they're not with the fluff.

look for a book called "return of the scarlet empress" and just read through it. this is what 2e considers the canon end to the age of sorrows. highlights include: every single sidereal killed by infernals due to a loophole in a martial art, a yozi breaking free even though this is explicitly impossible, the scarlet empress making a bunch of perfectly square islands the size of the blessed isle for no reason whatsoever, and the death of the UCS

>What about 1e?

What about it?

1e was fine at first, but became a clusterfuck of bad design after a few splats.

2e was fine at first, but became a clusterfuck of bad design after a few splats.

2.5e was a clusterfuck of bad design. since it was trying to unclusterfuck 2e

3e.... Well history is telling.

I forget...what were the rules for elsewhere again?

what happens when something gets stashed and forgotten about? does it eventually pop back to reality or is it gone forever?

is there any way you can access somebody else's storage?