I hope the first submission to that will be horse armor
General Exalted Thread
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A pair of light artifact armors, themed after lightweight sparring gear - one for you, one for your horse.
They allow you to teach your horse martial arts charms that you know, provided the horse is capable of physically performing the moves.
Teach your horse Hidden Horse Style.
That'd be a hell of a bargain considering for the cheapest of story commissioners[1] it's like $10 for a 1000 words.
[1] Eh, it's the closest analogue I could think of. Going by word-count seems like a good rule of thumb.
- Location
- The end of all things
Finally! A set of artifact heavy heavy barding worthy of my noble steed. That purchase of Whirlwind Horse-Armoring Prana continues to pay dividends.
Biigoh
Tanuki
- Location
- Tanukia
No comments Xd
are you saying you aren't the master thief who plagued the Scarlet Empire. Be honest.
notanautomaton
I've got 99 quests, I've finished one
Comissions are expensive because you're paying someone to write what you want them to write. This is more akin to self-publishing on Amazon, in which case 99 cents is reasonable.
Biigoh
Tanuki
- Location
- Tanukia
If such a being existed, surely, it would not be I. Nor would this hypothetical being use a non-existent martial arts style.
- Pronouns
- she/her
I'm looking forward to this.
I thought the SAS series was a missed opportunity because while Exalted doesn't lend itself well to a pre-made adventure the setting has a lot of potentially twists that don't really work because they're in major source books that players read for character ideas. The City of the Shining Reefs is my favourite example of this because if you know they're evil from the outset the Pelagials simply can't stand up to a circle of Exalts.
AmineHsu
A worm, not a man, scorned and despised.
- Location
- NoVA
Thinking about it, would would be reasonable rates for artifact/evocation chains comissions? Checking the word count of Volcano Cutter is a bit south of 2k, so technically that would be about 20, possibly bumped up to 25, but it just feels kinda awkwardly low...
I wouldn't do it for less than 40. Balancing Evocations and coming up with a workable theme and chain of powers suuuuucks. It's the single biggest irritation I have with Arms of the Chosen: There was not a wide enough selection of armor, so I still ended up having to homebrew every damn armor I want, or, more commonly, go "fuck it" and just invest in mortal armor until I max out Resistance's armor tree
Ideally the commissioner would help in providing the theme and a rough outline of the number of charms involved as well. But that doesn't always work out either...
Maybe $15 for a 1,000 words? Of course a lot of it depends on the quality of the work involved so for some charging even $20 or $30 or potentially even more wouldn't be out of the question.
This is from a couple years ago, but is probably still relevant? I did a bit of poking around on this topic the other day when the news first broke.
Edit: Excerpting the most relevant part:
Edit: Excerpting the most relevant part:
Article: I have no idea where the line lies, though personally I feel uncomfortable these days offering anybody less than $0.03 per word (I have in the past), and wouldn't consider paying $0.01 per word. But that's just what I choose to do. Most writers I've spoken to agree that 2,000 publishable words per day is a fairly reasonable rate. As game designer Rich Baker observed, "It's hard to knock down 2000 word days, day in, day out. That's an honest 8 hours of work. At $0.05 per word, you'd be making $12.50 an hour... I am frankly appalled at the idea that someone might pay (or take) $0.01 a word in the 21st century. That's saying a writer is worth $2.50 an hour." Paizo's Erik Mona feels that "1 cent a word is not "bordering on exploitative." It is exploitative FULL STOP."
[As a side note, using Rich Baker's estimate of 2,000 words per 8 hour day, that works out to $10 per day at half a cent per word, $20 per day at $0.01, $40 per day at $0.02, $60 per day at $0.03, $80 per day at $0.04, $100 per day at $0.05, $120 per day at $0.06, and $140 per day at $0.07.]
With luck, this article should give writers some of the the information they need to inform themselves when considering freelancing, and ensure that the relationship is an equal relationship. I'll keep the table above updated as best I can, and folks can make their own decisions. Please do feel free to correct inaccurate figures or provide additional information! Also, if you're a freelancer, feel free to share rates (don't break any NDAs, though!)
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@Sanctaphrax , about your Dragon-blooded 3e Craft charms:
I like them. Your Craft rewrite is still the high standard for me because of its brevity, focus on non-artifact Craft, and siloing the dice-trick charms away from the interesting charms. The Dragon-blooded Craft charms keep to your previous level of quality. I'm not qualified to comment on how they compare to the original charms, as I did not back the Kickstarter and have not seen them.
I like them. Your Craft rewrite is still the high standard for me because of its brevity, focus on non-artifact Craft, and siloing the dice-trick charms away from the interesting charms. The Dragon-blooded Craft charms keep to your previous level of quality. I'm not qualified to comment on how they compare to the original charms, as I did not back the Kickstarter and have not seen them.
AmineHsu
A worm, not a man, scorned and despised.
- Location
- NoVA
I mean, It was more like how much I would expect someone else to sellout for.Is it just me or is it morbidly hilarious that the moment the possibility of 'selling out' became real everyone started discussing just how much they would be willing to 'sell out' for?
- Pronouns
- They/Them
So I'm having lots of fun imagining RL societies ISOTed into Creation with their myths made real, like if Egypt popped up in the middle of the South and their gods are running around crazy-headed because - you know, they're suddenly real and that's scary while maybe Sol looks up from the GoD for a sec, slaps a deputy badge on Ra and decides that he never has to look up again because surely the new guy's got this, right? Meanwhile the rest of Yu-Shan is freaking the fuck out because where did they come from and did they miss a Primordial or something?! And all the while Apep is chowing down on the dead like Christmas and Easter came at the same time.
Origami Clock
Right twice a day
- Location
- Brighton, UK
What about the Aesir and Vanir turning up in the North? I'm picturing Hel riding Naglfari right down onto the Lover's head. Though that will mean that Loki will exist in the same cosmos as TED, which would be...interesting. Probably best to watch from another universe though.
Tbh, probably the biggest deal if the Egyptian Gods showed up would be that you would have all these powerful gods running around actually doing their jobs. That, and setting out to get the clusterfuck that is the Underworld in order.
- Location
- Singapore
Huh. It's strange.
I was wandering about in rpg.net, and then I found an interesting line of discussion on the currency in Creation.
Then they realized that the peasants probably never handled actual currency. Someone started to talk about how it shows that creation was made to step on the little man.
Another dude then retorted that that wasn't so. Small villages on creation barely survived on subsistence level. They don't use actual coins. They use clay currency stamped in cow shapes, or something.
Then someone talked about how in Africa, people paid dowries in tokens that can only be obtained by doing certain things. Hence, the dowry shows that you are a person of a certain character, like generous or hardworking or willing to contribute to the community.
And then this digressed into how being forced to switch to more conventional currency can harm the communities and social networks of more.... unconventional societies.
Is it odd I find this incredibly fascinating?
I was wandering about in rpg.net, and then I found an interesting line of discussion on the currency in Creation.
Then they realized that the peasants probably never handled actual currency. Someone started to talk about how it shows that creation was made to step on the little man.
Another dude then retorted that that wasn't so. Small villages on creation barely survived on subsistence level. They don't use actual coins. They use clay currency stamped in cow shapes, or something.
Then someone talked about how in Africa, people paid dowries in tokens that can only be obtained by doing certain things. Hence, the dowry shows that you are a person of a certain character, like generous or hardworking or willing to contribute to the community.
And then this digressed into how being forced to switch to more conventional currency can harm the communities and social networks of more.... unconventional societies.
Is it odd I find this incredibly fascinating?
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA
It'd certainly be a clusterfuck once the Immaculate Faith discovered them; the Egyptian gods are insanely interwoven with their worshipers' lives, to the point of Hathor sending out aspects to attend every wedding, festival, and funeral & three separate gods being tasked with assisting and protecting the dead on their journey to A'aru. The Immaculates generally step in when gods are fucking with their worshipers, not ensuring that they lead fulfilling, prosperous lives.
Unfortunately, the Egyptian pantheon would also be seen as blasphemous on multiple levels. They actively oppose the cycle of reincarnation, which would come across to the Immaculate Faith as denying their worshipers the chance to find enlightenment through the Dragons. Their reliance on individualized prayer from worshipers is a textbook example of deviancy from the communal worship principles of the Immaculate Texts. The Pharaoh's status as the son/incarnation of the sun-god Ra would likely be seen as a godblooded dynasty of puppet rulers ensuring the gods' ultimate primacy over mortals, and worst of all, the Egyptian gods would utterly refuse to yield even an inch to the Immaculates' demands, ensuring conflict.
If anything, they'd respond to the Underworld by turning pale and then doing whatever could possibly be done to destroy it, because its existence tilts reality far too much toward Chaos to be allowed.
After that, they'd set about rebuilding A'aru so their worshipers' souls can be properly looked after, and kept well the fuck away from the Kafkaesque mockery of the Field of Reeds which the natives call "reincarnation".
- Location
- my house
It was 7 no? Would that mean they aren't human per exalted?And there's the disorienting matter of the Egyptian mortals' souls having more than two parts
5, IIRC.
greensun
You shall all burn beneath my light!!!
Goddamnit! Kimbery's charmset lets you be Davy Jones from the Pirate of the Carribean! He's got a crew with Kimbery mutations, a ship that can maneuver through the water like nothing else and he is holding a grudge, a bitterness, that eats away at him. That consumes him even though he'd better off abandoning it, and which makes spite the world.
Heck, she can even summon the Kracken!
Heck, she can even summon the Kracken!