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Calamity-Stalling Patience and Disaster-Accelerating Expedience are a delightful combination. Not to use together, but simply in concept. Either face a weakened version now or delay the full force until after you've prepared.

Also, ever since I first sat down and thought about Neighborhood Relocation Scheme, I have maintained that the Sidereal mechanical niche is powerful and efficient solutions to specific problems; you may not have a hammer, but you probably have a left-handed ratcheting brass security Torx screwdriver set. Sidereal gameplay thus is the Apollo 13 "we have to fit this, into the hole for this, using nothing but this" scene down to the Charmset.

In other words, standard PC shenanigans. But I can't wait to see what people do with tools like, "this Abyssal isn't a Creature of Darkness, he's my agent", "for the next 24 hours I'm dead, and have the paperwork to prove it", and "of course I'm a god, the reason you haven't heard of me is I'm the God of out-of-date takeout menus".
 
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Also, Lucid Enigma Labyrinth is basically just Disco Elysium the charm.

"My love of hot dogs told me that you Mr Kejak are the secret Akuma"
 
One thing I'm looking forward to is seeing how the Familiar Becomes a God charm from previous editions is implemented, given that we now have a Be Adopted By a God and Get Benefits charm. How many Sidereals are officially related to their Familiars? How many people that Sidereals are mentoring call their pet rat Mom? Can you be descended from a Tyrant Lizard god?
 
Indivisible said:
One thing I'm looking forward to is seeing how the Familiar Becomes a God charm from previous editions is implemented, given that we now have a Be Adopted By a God and Get Benefits charm. How many Sidereals are officially related to their Familiars? How many people that Sidereals are mentoring call their pet rat Mom? Can you be descended from a Tyrant Lizard god?
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daughter of the tyrant lizard avatar ftw
 
Sure, the heroes you mentored who thought you were dead were even more upset when they found out that the deity they were supposedly descended from was your Familiar, but they cheered up when they found out that your Familiar is a tyrant lizard.
 
The charm chapter has been released.

Versatile: Archery, Brawl, Melee, and Thrown Charms with this keyword can enhance attacks
and parries with Martial Arts if the Sidereal uses a weapon compatible with that Ability.

Charms from multiple Abilities can't enhance the same action
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ZOMG Solars aren't the king of martial arts anymore!

(more seriously, love the keyword)
 
One day, Mars woke up and decided that the levels of betrayal, resentment, fratricide, and selfishness in Creation were far too low, and things were generally just too friendly.

So she created this Brawl charmset.

Oh god, it's so horrid. Dead Spouse Defense alone, even.
 
Brawl goes incredibly hard. I like the way someone else put it 'Become the Trolley in the trolley Problem'
 
Wasn't able to get to the Charms proper before my break ended, but I love how wuxia/Xianxia the process of making new Sidereal Charms is. You either go on a whole quest in order to earn a new Fate widget, or you find an ancient dusty scroll somewhere and go "By the Maidens! It's the legendary Such-and-Such Technique, created by So-and-So in ancient times when he Did the Thing!"
 
im going to promote my houseplants to full time research assistants and nobody can stop me

just writing and sealing a formal job offer for the bureau of destiny and tucking it into the pot of the office water lily or something it's great
 
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Journeys went from kinda eh to being one of my favorite castes so far. But Battles is also looking really good.
 
Sorry for the double post. But Expedited Approval of Justice might be the funniest charm I ever seen in exalted. It's literally the punch a Guard so you teleport technique from Skyrim.
 
Indivisible said:
Sure, the heroes you mentored who thought you were dead were even more upset when they found out that the deity they were supposedly descended from was your Familiar, but they cheered up when they found out that your Familiar is a tyrant lizard.
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Heaven on the other hand, is complaining that you keep promoting Tyrant Lizards into the Celestial Bureaucracy and expecting them to get jobs
 
I'm really not a fan of seer's starry eye.

Thaumaturgy is still shit in 3e, and the fact they keep having to put it on package and bundle deals to get someone to consider using it shows this. It's a charm that effectively gives 9 background dots and I still don't want to touch it.
 
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I'm really not a fan of seer's starry eye.

Thaumaturgy is still shit in 3e, and the fact they keep having to put it on package and bundle deals to get someone to consider using it shows this. It's a charm that effectively gives 9 background dots and I still don't want to touch it.
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Has anyone done a rewrite of it yet? Because I would pay actual money for a properly thought-out 3e Thaumaturgy rewrite.
 
Amidatelion said:
One day, Mars woke up and decided that the levels of betrayal, resentment, fratricide, and selfishness in Creation were far too low, and things were generally just too friendly.

So she created this Brawl charmset.

Oh god, it's so horrid. Dead Spouse Defense alone, even.
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Iron Brute Strike is my favorite. Respond to a Charisma or Appearance roll against you with a reflexive decisive attack, and if you do aggravated or 3+ levels of damage, you give them Hideous.

"Would you like to hear the word of Oblivi- oh gods my face!"
 
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I'm really not a fan of seer's starry eye.

Thaumaturgy is still shit in 3e, and the fact they keep having to put it on package and bundle deals to get someone to consider using it shows this. It's a charm that effectively gives 9 background dots and I still don't want to touch it.
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It's mortal level magic, obviously it sucks compared to shit like Sorcery. Being able to make free bread, start fires without fuels, and the one good one on the Exalted level, tea reading, are all pretty great, with the last one being good for most anyone. Exalts get Charms to have a bunch of minor magic tricks to do nonsense with, but if you want meaningful thaumaturgy on the Exalted level, Sorcerous Workings are right over there.
 
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Iron Brute Strike is my favorite. Respond to a Charisma or Appearance roll against you with a reflexive decisive attack, and if you do aggravated or 3+ levels of damage, you give them Hideous.

"Would you like to hear the word of Oblivi- oh gods my face!"
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You can combo it with the Battles charm and no one will react to you suddenly slogging someone. And the person you whack can't hold the action against you. Absolutely disgusting combo.
 
Question unrelated to Sidereals drops: Is there any way for someone who missed funding the Exigents campaign to get a look at the manuscript? The Indiegogo seems to have Google Drive link for all manuscript chapters, but only the Chapters 1 + 2 Doc seems to actually open, and with no release date confirmed I am hankering for that sweet sweet lore.
 
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