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Shadow-Hands Invocation is legitimately one of my favourite charms from any book. It's just so cool and evocative.
General Exalted Thread
- Thread starter Aleph
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Yeah, I'm doing playtesting on my Solar Charmset revision right now and the first thing I was asked for was "Occult dice tricks".
One of the things that really should have been in a sidebar somewhere in the core book is that since one of the functions of the core book charmsets are to serve as guidelines for writing custom charms, some mention of what wasn't written on purpose rather than just that it wasn't thought of would be invaluable for situations like this. It's pretty widely accepted that, for example, Brawl shouldn't get anything like Excellent Strike as part of the tradeoff for its 'brawl does huge damage' identity. Personally, I sort of think that the lack of Solar sorcery boosters is intentional due to the tightly math'd Working curves, as well as leaving room for other splats to have cool sorcery tricks despite losing to Solars on raw horsepower, but I don't know.
MiracleGrow
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I semi agree, I just think their should be less dice tricks overall and the ones we do get should be way more beefy. Quite like this one.
It's a meaty fucking charm for what's basically a dice trick.
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HalfTangible
Only half sane (it's less cringe)
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I've said before that I like Excellencies because they are very thematic in and of themselves even though they are essentially just dice adders.
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- Ottawa
Morke had some kind of weird animus against Sorcery-enhancing Charms, at least for Solars. Here's a quote from Miracles of the Solar Exalted:
And the Charm itself, Six Eternities' Travail, feels perfunctory. I got the impression it was written very reluctantly.
Anyway, if you'll excuse a touch of self-promotion, I've written a couple of Solar Sorcery Charms myself.
And the Charm itself, Six Eternities' Travail, feels perfunctory. I got the impression it was written very reluctantly.
Anyway, if you'll excuse a touch of self-promotion, I've written a couple of Solar Sorcery Charms myself.
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I like excellencies because they put all the dice tricks in one charm that a player is expected to have. It makes balancing encounters easier
slybrarian
Creature of Fable
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- A Far and Sunless Land
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Sometimes it feels like the early 3e developers refused to believe that anyone would want to play the game a different way than they did. Morke didn't like sorcery and so did the bare mimimum to support it. Holden had his vision of Lunars and when confronted with the fact that people loved FATG he doubled down on his feral beast monster version for his homebrew.
mothematics
How wide is the concept of "you"?
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- She/Her
Not yet. They get some mention in The Realm, a paragraph sidebar plus another mention or two, but that's it. Couldn't tell you what our plans are at this this time (or if we have any specifics), but they're on our very big Would Like To Get To Eventually list.
Sucal
The Devil’s Cut
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- Bottom of the barrel
Sweet.
Definately hope they get a better set of write ups and adventure seeds this edition, always fun digging too deep
Sucal
The Devil’s Cut
- Location
- Bottom of the barrel
On one hand, cool outfits.We've also had a picture of what they look like now.
The Realm page 124.
On the other hand, they set off my korg PTSD from the thor movies.
asdx
Superior Sword Fairy
- Location
- Texas.
Today's pre-session talk, summed up with "Be cool, or Die lame."
Not helping my confidence in our chances in survival.
Edit: Part one of Boss Battle complete. Many neat defenses shown off, and I have kicked an Anti-Fate Maiden-monstergirl down into the bowels of a Manse we were supposed to keep her out of... Oops. Solid damage at least, now we just uh, have to keep mortals and dragonblooded from getting ganked by something that's effectively deleting reality around itself.
Not helping my confidence in our chances in survival.
Edit: Part one of Boss Battle complete. Many neat defenses shown off, and I have kicked an Anti-Fate Maiden-monstergirl down into the bowels of a Manse we were supposed to keep her out of... Oops. Solid damage at least, now we just uh, have to keep mortals and dragonblooded from getting ganked by something that's effectively deleting reality around itself.
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As Z said above, we just had an Indiegogo campaign for Exigents pretty recently, and have the manuscript for that already, it's very good!
Apparently the Sidereals manuscript is more or less written; OPP spaces crowdfunding campaigns for the same lines out a bit, so I wouldn't expect that before late this year at the earliest, but I'd be very surprised if we didn't see it in 2023 (this is an educated guess on my part, not hard information). All indications are that work continues on Exalted Essence (which we also have the manuscript for, the KS was last year) and various other books. The compiled version of Hundred Devils Night Parade came out this year, adding more entries and giving a discount to anyone who bought the singles previously, based on how many they purchased.
There have been rumours about how Ex3 is "totally on the brink of dying, trust me, you guys, it's a disaster, I have special information and am definitely not making shit up, just you wait, any day now" for literal years, none of which has ever been borne out. (Most recently: people credulously trying to insist that the reason why Exigents was on Indiegogo instead of Kickstarter was secretly because Kickstarter has banned OPP from starting new campaigns... While they literally have one running right now at find of posting). At this point I more or less just ignore it.
We did? When, and where do I get mine?
I got an email about 'digital rewards' that had an indiegogo link. If you don't have that email I imagine you can just track down the digital rewards section on indiegogo itself.
MiracleGrow
Miracles for only $19.99 [They/Them]
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Soooooo I was one of those people who backed on Artifacts and I'm kind figuring out the general concept to it right now.
I got two ideas bouncing around in my head. First off is a ladle that does cute things with water and counts as a small artifact weapon
. Second idea is a small crown woven out of the hair of a greater elemental with Black Jade binding it all together. There is little glass fishes carefully stitched into the entire crown. It has special effects where it makes local fishes treat you like a king or some shit. I'm taking ideas that are water or fish themed here. I'm leaning towards the overall concept having a wee bit of humor to it.
Other ideas is a sword made by Five Days of Darkness and other orch themed things. But its hard to get Orch themeing right sometimes.
I got two ideas bouncing around in my head. First off is a ladle that does cute things with water and counts as a small artifact weapon
. Second idea is a small crown woven out of the hair of a greater elemental with Black Jade binding it all together. There is little glass fishes carefully stitched into the entire crown. It has special effects where it makes local fishes treat you like a king or some shit. I'm taking ideas that are water or fish themed here. I'm leaning towards the overall concept having a wee bit of humor to it.Other ideas is a sword made by Five Days of Darkness and other orch themed things. But its hard to get Orch themeing right sometimes.
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GhanjRho
Acanthus
Honestly, one of my favorite Solar Sorcery buffs I've seen is giving them more control spells; Sandact6 had a charm for [Essence] Terrestrial Spells, [Essence/2] Celestial and one Solar, which sounds right to me.
What do people think about Favored discounts on Charms for Exigents? I don't mean for Architects, where there is a full Charmset, but particularly for home-made Exigents. The recommendation for Ability-based Exigents is to condense the Charm tree across a limited spread of Abilities; both Janest and the Sovereigns demonstrate this by only having 5 Abilities each with Charms. So, should they get the Caste/Favored discount on Charms if technically every Charm would be Favored?
What do people think about Favored discounts on Charms for Exigents? I don't mean for Architects, where there is a full Charmset, but particularly for home-made Exigents. The recommendation for Ability-based Exigents is to condense the Charm tree across a limited spread of Abilities; both Janest and the Sovereigns demonstrate this by only having 5 Abilities each with Charms. So, should they get the Caste/Favored discount on Charms if technically every Charm would be Favored?
mothematics
How wide is the concept of "you"?
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Yeah, I think so. It was a deliberate design choice to make them build a little smoother given how specialized even the broader sets like Sovereigns are.
MiracleGrow
Miracles for only $19.99 [They/Them]
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Decided to go with the ladle cause it be fun concept I think. Now to get the themes of School Fish and Larceny together some how.Soooooo I was one of those people who backed on Artifacts and I'm kind figuring out the general concept to it right now.
I got two ideas bouncing around in my head. First off is a ladle that does cute things with water and counts as a small artifact weapon
Other ideas is a sword made by Five Days of Darkness and other orch themed things. But its hard to get Orch themeing right sometimes.