What is Exalted? An epic high-flying role-playing game about reborn god-heroes in a world where bears are pansies. Start here: theonyxpath.com/category/worlds/exalted/
>That sounds cool, how can I get into it? Read the 3e core book (link below). For mechanics of the old edition, play this tutorial: mengtzu.github.io/exalted/sakuya.html . It’ll get you familiar with most of the mechanics.
>Gosh that was fun. How do I find a group? Roll20 and the Game Finder General here on Veeky Forums.
So, /exg/! I need suggestions for features a water manse might have. For reference, it's a palace that sits atop a hill and overlooks a port town settled by the Yellow River in the East. If it matters, the hearthstone linked to it is the Purity Gem.
Aaron Cook
Scrying pools: see future or present events in the surface
Fonts of knowledge: Entire libraries kept in a single pond. Gain passing knowledge by drinking it. Gain in depth knowledge by immersing yourself in the pool.
Ian Bell
Hot springs: For speeding up healing or recovering from certain conditions. Also has a 90% chance to attract the attention of weeb players.
Consider adding a waterwheel or one of those fancy bamboo japanese thingies that go doink, for the hell of it.
Isaac Ortiz
>Also has a 90% chance to attract the attention of weeb players
Exalted has a 90% chance to attract weeaboo's.
Austin Wilson
The town nearby replies on the manse for clean water.
The manse water is yellow and has a strong taste, but people claim it has great health benefits.
James Sullivan
>The manse water is yellow
I'm onto your trick, old man! No one is going into your magical realm.
Christian Perez
So, last thread we had an incrdibly stupid and embarrassingly long discussion started by one sentence in Ragara Feria's writeup, but what about Cynis Borok? Does nyone have strong opinion about him? I found him incredibly dull myself, word count wasted on walking cliche. Do you guys feel the same, or do you like Borok?
Nolan Nelson
He's pretty generic, but eh I guess it's something a newbie might use.
Leo Richardson
Ragara Feria?
Adam Gomez
Veeky Forums, what's your opinion on Tomb of Dreams as an meta-example for a story / session?
Sure, I've read it, but I'm a mindless drone and have no personal opinion on anything whatsoever.
Jose Cruz
He's boring but looks pretty easy to run as a starter villain. He's not complex enough that you have to think really hard about how he'll act and react. He's like the dry toast of villains, inoffensive and bland but still serviceable. 5/10
Lucas Nelson
Martial Arts training ground under a waterfall coming off a cliff on the hill.
Asher Butler
It's a good way to introduce the mechanics of the game, but doesn't really go into the lore. The self-contained nature of the dream prevents the players from leaving or splitting the party. The fact that it also allows for conflict resolution besides combat is great.
Easton Sanders
That is true, but still kind of disappointing for something that people are technically supposed to pay for. Even a mediocre ST could come up with something of comparable quality. The new Charms are useful, at least.
Brayden Robinson
I can't imagine anyone paying for that shit. Those are literally the blandest villains I have ever seen.
I have to say, running a 3E game, what's really amusing is how the standard loot dynamic doesn't really apply to Exalted. You don't need to be laden with magical items (and in fact, being laden with magical items can work against you), you just need your trusty sword and some armor. Everything else, you can leave.
Technically speaking, if the PCs manage to beat their first Wyld Hunt, they have all the equipment they will ever need.
Similarly, I'm wondering who bothered to stat up stuff like Thaumaturgy, when it's obvious that no PC will EVER use that shit. I mean, it makes the world more fleshed-out, but 90% of the stuff in most of the books is so beneath the notice of the players that it'd never be used.
Jonathan Ortiz
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Anthony Perry
>Similarly, I'm wondering who bothered to stat up stuff like Thaumaturgy, when it's obvious that no PC will EVER use that shit. I mean, it makes the world more fleshed-out, but 90% of the stuff in most of the books is so beneath the notice of the players that it'd never be used. Thaumaturgy is for mortals games. There it can actually be pretty damn useful.
Kayden Miller
One change I liked for 3E is the fact that Sorcery has been totally revamped. Not to mention that mortals can actually use sorcery now.
Evan Torres
>Thaumaturgy is for mortals games. There it can actually be pretty damn useful. I wonder why thaumaturgy has to be presented as its own system. I mean, is there a reason the relatively minor powers represented by thaumaturgy aren't just supernatural Merits, included in the same section as other Merits?
Isaac Martinez
I think it's easy to avoid them, just play up the original sword-and-sandals post-apocalyptic vibe from 1e. Remind them at every turn it's the Age of Sorrows.
Jaxson Gray
The reactions after the post are the imageboard of equivalent of TV shows with laugh tracks.
Elijah Cook
Hahahahahahaha.
Ryan Hall
>I think it's easy to avoid them, just play up the original sword-and-sandals post-apocalyptic vibe from 1e. Remind them at every turn it's the Age of Sorrows. "Man I played this great post apocalyptic anime game last week."
Michael Rivera
There is nothing wrong with anime inspired games. As long as you don't have cliches that are currently killing the anime. This is the biggest problem. Bringing crazy anime fan, that will use Kyaa, Nyaa, tsundere, to an anime game is similar as bringing a goth or emo (whoi is talking all the time how life is suffocating) to a vampire game. It isn't the game at fault. It depends on the crowd you are playing with.
Christopher Carter
So /exg/, I just wanted you to know that due to previous thread bitching about gayness in OP/WW game, I'm going to have my players choose one of them to have been repeatedly gay raped by his bearlike, Dragonblooded superior before exaltation.
John Bailey
godspeed to you sir, godspeed!
James Reyes
Just wait for Feminine Female-Attracted Hermaphrofemale to be introduced into Exalted in the near future. Gay NPCs will be least of your worries.
Jason Gutierrez
You mean the one with Cloud's buster sword and materia in it? And all of the anime art? And obvious anime references? That Exalted 1st edition?
David Lee
>As long as you don't have cliches that are currently killing the anime
But theres nothing slice of life or moe about Exalted. So it's safe. Exalted's more like 80's anime, where violence solves everything and people explode at the slightest touch into gory blood splatters and there's ample amounts of tits.
Or at least, it was until tumblrites started whining there isn't enough PROGRESSIVENESS in it and decided to culturally enrich the dev's.
Joshua Rivera
Also I'm bored, so have a bit of an art dump.
Landon Adams
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Andrew Gomez
Also if anyone wants something specific, I'll see what I can do.
Nolan Martinez
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Ethan Collins
Well, sometimes problems are solved by inhumanly excellent persuasion and so on. Super martial arts isn't the only answer, probably.
Colton Davis
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Owen Reed
Hence tits, the ultimate persuasive technique.
Andrew Parker
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Noah Barnes
>Or at least, it was until tumblrites started whining there isn't enough PROGRESSIVENESS in it and decided to culturally enrich the dev's.
Well, somebody's triggered.
Adam Nguyen
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Wyatt Moore
>But theres nothing slice of life or moe about Exalted
Well spoken fellow anime fan
William Wilson
That image always makes me giggle.
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Jason Baker
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Joseph Nelson
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Chase Phillips
hello tumblr
Jeremiah Torres
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Thomas Wright
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Michael Howard
Didn't we already go there?
Adam Sanchez
>nothing worth talking about re: Exalted >threads just picture threads of quality art we'll never see in an Exalted product again
4e when?
Jacob Powell
We never left that place.
Joshua Thompson
go fuck yourself
Brody Murphy
Yeah, 3E really dropped the ball on the art. You can tell thats where the least amount of budget went, and whats worse, it doesn't even look like Exalted art anymore, it looks like generic fantasy garbage because they were so ashamed of their anime roots.
Isaac Kelly
>it looks like generic fantasy garbage
this hurts the most. It doesn't have any soul or identity
Hudson Scott
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Gabriel Cooper
And they were so ashamed of "Bikini Witches" that they did a hatchet job censoring The Scarlet Empress' bare leg. Not to mention all the poser art and plagiarism.
Jordan Turner
The censored leg is the worst. It's so poorly done, it's a fuzzy red smear that clearly doesn't belong, and it's almost dead center in the fucking picture so you can't even avoid looking at it.
Blake Howard
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Thomas Wilson
Is it me, or Golden Exhalation kinda sucks? Are there any better terrestial martial arts for firewands? I know about Righteous Devil, but that is celestial.
Anthony Sullivan
I seem to remember that there is a Solar charm that allows the user to ignore any penalties coming from Appearance, but I can't seem to find it. Does it ring a bell to anyone?
Nolan Johnson
Which picture?
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Nicholas Brooks
Showing dat ass is okay but a fucking leg is not? How the fuck?
Cameron White
That's made really bad by the zoom in. The composition of the original puts the Empress much more in focus. Also you can still clearly see ponytail girls ass in the reflection.
Jordan Howard
This is 50% size of picture. It still looks like shit.
Charles Fisher
Wait, strix are normal regular animals in creation right? That means a lunar will be able to take on that shape right?
Josiah James
Nothing suggests that they're supernatural beings, but it remains to be seen if Lunars need to buy certain charms in order to take take shapes beyond a certain size.
Anthony Ross
Shame or not, I personally have seen zero reduction in the number of bikini witches in either of the games I'm in.
Charles Lewis
Do you fell your games are better or worse because of it?
Elijah James
I wouldn't say they're better, but I definitely wouldn't say they're worse.
Carson Davis
But we know they didn't pay the writers anything.
Where did all the money go?
(haha not really we know it was churned up by the gold-leafed POD garbage books and refunds -- which I got both of)
Wyatt Sanchez
>But theres nothing slice of life What do you think defines that genre? Because it's not a contemporary setting in a high school and if it was the Heptagram exists.
Michael Baker
I'm building a Craft-supernal solar in 3e, and I want to be able to start making artifacts right from the get-go without any (major) wait periods. This means I need a way to get rare/expensive material components quickly/efficiently, and secretly so no nosey Terrestrials start asking why some random guy is buying Orichalcum by the kilo.
So, which Merits are best for this? Do I want Backing, Contacts (Guild), Influence, Resources, or something else?
John Rivera
Manse, to get a volcano base that you can use to begin forging Orichalcum in.
Influence or Backing to give you control over a gold mining operation, to forge into the Orichalcum.
Sorcery and the Demon of the First Circle spell to summon Firmin and Heranhal demons to give you different sorts of hell materials to use as occult resources for artifact construction - if you want to make a daiklaive with sunlight-themed Evocations, for instance, you could get a Heranhal to forge a weave of fibers of their soulglass from the sands of Cecelyne and your anima banner, then take the glass fiber sheets and form them into magical fiberglass by layering them with an alloy of Firmin resin and Orichalcum.
Tyler Hughes
So here's the thing. Starmetal and Moonsilver can't be created, only collected. Jade is used as currency in the Realm, so you only need Resources to get what you need. Orichalcum is made from Gold, but there's no mechanics for transmuting it yet. Soulsteel is steel made from souls; either you're going into the Underworld or you're going on a killing spree. Otherwise you want either Backing (Guild) or Contacts (Guild) or some other similarly powerful entity. Make note that Moonsilver and Starmetal are jealously hoarded by the Lunars and Sidereals respectively. For a clandestine operation, buy up Jade or gold.
Jose Nguyen
When I said rare/expensive materials, I meant shit other than the sacred substances. Like, the book mentions "various exotic or mystical reagents such as frozen flame, behemoth bones, the captured love of a raksha noble, or other such wonders."
I'm certain that the best way to get some of the sacred substances is just to trade away the completed artifacts that I'm gonna be crafting. What I don't know is how I'm gonna get whatever bullshit my DM is gonna pull out of his ass and say I need.
Alexander Parker
>What I don't know is how I'm gonna get whatever bullshit my DM is gonna pull out of his ass and say I need.
That's probably to facilitate a quest or story arc to make you do shit instead of fuck about in your workshop all day. This puts more weight and value behind every artefact beyond "I crack out a world shaking power every other week."
Ryan Ortiz
Fuck.
If I've spent all my points on making a super specialized character designed for building cool shit, it kinda defeats the purpose if I have to constantly put myself in danger to get spare parts.
It's shit like this that makes me mad that Exalted doesn't have rules for potions or scrolls or magitech grenades or literally any kind of consumable magic item. Then at least I'd be able to directly use my skill at crafting to have some use in non-crafting pursuits.
Gavin Roberts
That's what the Demon of the First Circle spell is for. Firmin have the ability to create a metallic resin that is especially good at reflecting sunlight; they use it to create needles, normally, but they can be directed by a summoner to use it to create any metallic item.
Heranhal have the ability to create six different unique items, including "the livid alloy called hepaziton" from bronze, blood, and gall; "green sun metal" from the light of Ligier (probably a good idea to use a sorcerous working to give your manse magical lighting that duplicates the light of the Green Sun if you want to use this), "soulglass" made from ghosts and the sand of Cecelyne, strings made from time itself suitable for bows or musical instruments, along with two others that were left unstated.
Additionally, you can use the demons themselves as a material for crafting, judging by how the 5-dot Orichalcum daiklave from the Arms preview has a demon inside it; you'd just need to pick one whose themes align with the sort of Evocations you want the item to have.
Carter Butler
If you're going for artefacts, you'll probably have sorcery, which grants some options. Other than that, what are you spending all your Solar XP on? Workings? Buy up some MA, that's what it's there for.
Landon Gray
>It's shit like this that makes me mad that Exalted doesn't have rules for potions or scrolls or magitech grenades or literally any kind of consumable magic item. Then at least I'd be able to directly use my skill at crafting to have some use in non-crafting pursuits.
That's what the Craft Points system is intended to encourage. You're not supposed to be making magic items with it, though, but things like making jewelry for the Queen as a part of your party's social influence, making toys for children to help improve the party's reputation with the common people, or making traps to help the party deal with the Dragonblooded that are chasing them.
Sebastian Davis
Occult 5, Lore 5, Craft: Artifacts 5, Craft: whatever 5, plus at LEAST 11 Crafting charms. I'd rather have more, tho, since with only 11 I'd be missing out on real gems like Arete Shifting Method and Bright Forging Prana. I'd like at least Sorcery plus 2 more spells, and 1 (or maybe 2) defensive charms, but I just don't have the points at char gen to spread around like that
You're acting as if it's difficult to acquire tons and tons of crafting xp. Why do you think Exigenesis of the Distilled Form is a thing? Hell, I'd argue that the whole system encourages the opposite, since the best way to get crafting experience is to craft over and over again like a fiend.
Christopher Gray
Martial Arts, like I said. Buy up a single style, it doesn't matter if you buy any charms for it, as the Excellency will carry you through most fights, and you can spend Solar XP on them in parallel to Craft charms.
Luis Powell
You don't need 11 Craft charms, bro, you just need 4. Craftsman Needs No Tools, Thousand-Forge Hands, Flawless Handiwork Method, and Bright-Forging Prana. Maybe 5, if you want to pick up Crack-Mending Technique.
You don't really need Arete-Shifting Method since all it really does is negate a -1 penalty.