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General Exalted Thread
It's especially nice because to 9/10 gods in Ex3, a Dragonblooded is a major problem. Even to stronger ones they're terrifying. No GET, but they can rip Essence dots away. The god who hires a DB has some heavy yet still not divine muscle, the brutish lower class.
That tenth God is Ahlat and his ilk, who are bossfights for entire hearths.
Maybe my perception of the world is different from yours, I do not perceive things as such and so find this unpersuasive, and my profile is locked to prevent people like you from doing literally exactly that.
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What an incredibly bad argument. It's based on a single anecdote as support and doesn't hold up to even a minute of scrutiny; people who find combat encounters fun and demand they be fun are people who don't want to sit through two hours of meaningless slog, but would prefer that those two hours of slog it will inevitably become are actually fun to sit through. That's not a strange demand, that's not absurd, it's definitely not a repressed joy for the limited freedom of roleplaying due to incredibly railroaded plots. There are several good arguments for not making everything into a minigame, and I actually do agree and sympathize with a lot of them (I've spent at this point, at least ten hours in total arguing with @Kaiya and @Omicron about exactly this and I STAND MY GROUND) but this argument is not very good.
You could say it's to reduce complexity, you could say it's to change the focus of the game, but this is just a bizarre position to take. Even from the assumption that every plot is deeply railroaded, which doesn't match with the Exalted experience of many people, people like railroading. Even the argument that the true joy of roleplaying is found in freedom is one that is deeply flawed from the perspective of deeper investigation; this essay does not support it and neither do your arguments. If you want to make an argument, do so yourself instead of posting bad essays to do so for you.
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Yes, to be clear, you definitely should not make every action in an RPG its own minigame; but once you have, that minigame had better be fun or you should just replace it with a roll.
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that sounds like something a coward would say
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So you don't think that you've been rather abrasive recently? For instance, the very usage of 'people like you'.
Sometimes, people are abrasive. Deal with it.
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This I can agree with, as a design principle.
Peanut-007
Hat or Hair? America decides.
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Exactly, you aren't mook thugs. You're the not-quite-criminal elementalist clans of Heaven. There's a certain level of respect for your ancestors achievements passed down to you and a wariness about your ability to inflict harm with ease and little fear of reprisal from a low or middle class god.
You're basically the samurai clan turned Yakuza except the loan shark office your associated with is literally run by a sentient shark-god of trade.
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That dissociated mechanics essay was cool
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I can't believe I'm saying this but.... grow up.
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Well on SV there are Rules.
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No you absolute doofuses, you are not having an argument about this. This is stupid. Immediately drop it, I don't have any authority but as a peer user and this is perhaps the dumbest argument about the biggest nothingburger I have ever seen. Why are you even discussing this in the Exalted thread. God.
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Warning: You're going to drop the topic and move on
you're going to drop the topic and move on
You all should know by now that this isn't okay. Stop trying to bite each others heads off for minor crap like this.
It's actually my job to deal with this Kaiya. And really, if you're being abrasive then that's on you.
I would advise you stop being so abrasive to others, and make the effort to calmly discuss things instead of doing...this. It's better for everyone overall.
Please avoid doing this as well. This does nothing to actually help the situation, and quite frankly it's not a good idea if you want to stay out of the crossfire.
Really guys, you're better than this. Or at least, I would hope you are. So stop antagonizing each other and keep things somewhat chill, yeah?
You all should know by now that this isn't okay. Stop trying to bite each others heads off for minor crap like this.
It's actually my job to deal with this Kaiya. And really, if you're being abrasive then that's on you.
I would advise you stop being so abrasive to others, and make the effort to calmly discuss things instead of doing...this. It's better for everyone overall.
Please avoid doing this as well. This does nothing to actually help the situation, and quite frankly it's not a good idea if you want to stay out of the crossfire.
Really guys, you're better than this. Or at least, I would hope you are. So stop antagonizing each other and keep things somewhat chill, yeah?
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You shall all burn beneath my light!!!
Because this thread is filled with overly analytical arseholes, and this inane argument is the natural result of such a gathering.
Every once and a while I wonder what it is about Exalted, specifically, that attracts all these assholes to it. Even I'm not immune to lashing out and being a giant prick about things I feel are important. Case in point, I had to stop myself from getting in to an argument with Sanctaphrax over if charms were magical or not (They're not. You're wrong, shut up!)
Like, we're all table top gamers, so obviously we all have some kind of moderate to severe emotional or mental issues. We wouldn't be spending hours upon hours pretending to be cool in fake, imaginary words if we didn't.
But why Exalted specifically?
Maybe my data is skewed because I mostly lurk in Exalted or DnD threads, but I feel like there is a greater concentration of vitriol, bitchiness and pettiness among the Exalted fanbase. I mean, just looking at the mod warning thread marks. Over forty vs the WoD threads five. What the heck, Exalted community? Why are we such shits?
Like, we're all table top gamers, so obviously we all have some kind of moderate to severe emotional or mental issues. We wouldn't be spending hours upon hours pretending to be cool in fake, imaginary words if we didn't.
But why Exalted specifically?
Maybe my data is skewed because I mostly lurk in Exalted or DnD threads, but I feel like there is a greater concentration of vitriol, bitchiness and pettiness among the Exalted fanbase. I mean, just looking at the mod warning thread marks. Over forty vs the WoD threads five. What the heck, Exalted community? Why are we such shits?
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It can be argued that anything that uses Motes is magic.
Also don't act like people yelling in each other's general direction instead of having a calm discussion is unique to Exalted, the Ascension Mage thread had to be split off from the World of Darkness thread for exactly the same thing.
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They're not. You're wrong, shut up!
Certainly not, but it seems to be far more common with Exalted.
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On my end, I haven't slept well in literally 14 days and suffer constant, piercing headaches, and my love for Exalted is, well. In Ex3, it would be a Defining intimacy. Nothing else in my life comes close. My impression is that Exalted is a lot like Serenity, from Firefly. It just has this way with people, of drawing them in, making them fall in love. No matter how many times it needs fixing, or goes off on some idiotic tangeant about Lunars fucking animals, or releases an Edition that has as a core assumption everything you loathe about tabletop gaming, it's hard to pull away, to not think what it could be.
Exalted is special. It's special to a lot of people, in a lot of mutually contradictory ways. There's nothing else quite like it out there, and I don't think there ever will be.
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Because Kaiya has locked her profile so people can't PM her.
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..... go to sleep.
Rule 3 Violation: Just because you're not in a good mood doesn't mean that you should be overly abrasive to others
Oh, gee, I never thought of that. What a brilliant flare of insight. Just sleep. Oh, wait.
It's not that fucking simple.
I feel the obvious solution is the wholesale dissolution of the Exalted band.
Kidding, but the impression I get from your post is that Exalted fans are basically the RPG version of Dr Who fans, or Steven Universe Fans, or Supernatural fans, or Rick and Morty fans, or Adventure Time fans.
Fans are the worst.
If you have something to say to me that would only fit in a PM, just don't say it to me. That was the entire point of making it so that people can't PM me.