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grommile said:
Because I have miraculous ladybug brainrot despite never having watched the damn show, I now have a silly kernel of an idea:
Hawkmoth as an Unquestionable.
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Or the Kwami as Unquestionables.
I guess they could just be weird about direct interference and demand that others( wielding their Panoplies of course) act on their behalf?
Hmm, if you want to keep the Big Bang thing then they would probably be descended from Cytherea?
 
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The_Reptile_ said:
I absolutely remember, when 3e core first came out, a recurring major criticism I had was the book presumes at least passing familiarity with the setting and its concepts. Like in the grand scheme of things this is a minor quibble, but to me it stands out because I remember it being one of the first things 2e core talked about, but we are several books in and we still don't have a description of what the higher and lower soul are, and by extension what, specifically, a hungry ghost is, and considering what type if ghost pops out of your body is *directly* correlated to what soul it's forming out of I feel like that's a baffling oversight.

Core is filled with that sort of thing to, like for mount speeds a Simhata is name dropped with NO explanation what that even is, basically no terminology for the Fae like middlemarches or freeholds are really explained. It's all a bunch of stuff that even when seemingly minor all just add up.
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That was a thing in 2e, too, though, at least for me. I remember a younger Ichypa loading the pdf for the 2e core book for the first time and wonder what these Dragon Kings were, they sounded cool, but got mentioned only in passing like, three times, with no further meaningful details. Another specific example would be when I got my hands on CoTD: The South and wondered what the fuck a Kether Rock was and why it was important enough to label on the map but never get mentioned in the book itself, and continued wondering until I picked up some 1e stuff, including the Cult of the Illuminated book.
 
ichypa said:
That was a thing in 2e, too, though, at least for me. I remember a younger Ichypa loading the pdf for the 2e core book for the first time and wonder what these Dragon Kings were, they sounded cool, but got mentioned only in passing like, three times, with no further meaningful details. Another specific example would be when I got my hands on CoTD: The South and wondered what the fuck a Kether Rock was and why it was important enough to label on the map but never get mentioned in the book itself, and continued wondering until I picked up some 1e stuff, including the Cult of the Illuminated book.
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A good example of this is the Five Magical Materials, actually. You have a bunch of things like, talking about the different materail bonuses for items, entities who use them, and so on. But nothing ever in that book sat down to describe and define them, what they looked like in of themselves, or whatnot.
 
Blaque said:
A good example of this is the Five Magical Materials, actually. You have a bunch of things like, talking about the different materail bonuses for items, entities who use them, and so on. But nothing ever in that book sat down to describe and define them, what they looked like in of themselves, or whatnot.
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That kind of thing seems related to why the "2.6" project has been trying to mostly unpack and document existing implicit stuff rather than add shiny new bells and whistles.
 
strange_person said:
That kind of thing seems related to why the "2.6" project has been trying to mostly unpack and document existing implicit stuff rather than add shiny new bells and whistles.
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I don't think I've heard of the 2.6 project. Is any of that still around to look at, or is that one of those Exalted projects that's vanished from the internet?

(Asking because a quick google search turned up nothing.)
 
I personally tore Laughing Wounds Style in half and turned it into artifacts for a battle couple with the submissive tanking hits while the dominant partner serves a support role. It's not entirely bug free but makes a better statement about the lifestyle while being a thing their opponents might observe in action and go "wow, what a pair of absolute freaks".
 
As good as it is (I think the first scene in Bloodlust especially),, we have kind of been spoiled since with really good adjacent media. Though apparently based on the Discord they just forgot to put it in since it's one fo those "Obviously we would' things I guess.
 
Fucking thank christ they fixed Eyes and Seven Despair. No longer are they the Deathlord of Yon Creepy Revenge Sex, make way for the Mad Scientist of Death.
 
Haven't read the pdf yet but I will assume I was incorrect about the Mask of Winters for like the 8th time
 
He's also the greatest martial artist among
the Deathlords; in his meditations upon nonexistence, he has created the Albicant Sepulcher of Extinction
style, a Sidereal Martial Art that is the embodiment of the Shining Way's theology. Such an attainment is
thought impossible by any save the Sidereal Exalted; Heaven will tremble when it learns what the Bishop
has achieved.
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... oh my. Now that's intimidating. On several levels.
 
MiracleGrow said:
Is it doing the same where it does not understand what a state is?
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No, it just kinda... lied to me, telling me that the pledge went through and not at the same time.

I managed to fix it by using a different card, but I have no idea what was happening.

The_Reptile_ said:
No longer are they the Deathlord of Yon Creepy Revenge Sex, make way for the Mad Scientist of Death.
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POV: You're a Deathknight serving under a mad scientist who is currently staring at you over your bed, almost certainly about to send you out to do some bullshit
 
Amidatelion said:
POV: You're a Deathknight serving under a mad scientist who is currently staring at you over your bed, almost certainly about to send you out to do some bullshit
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Lest anyone think this is a pithy joke, no this is literally, verbatim one of several scenarios that Eyes's Deathknights just have to get used to being their new normal.
 
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While we've only seen hints of what the 3e Underworld is going to look like through Deathlords' domains, I am liking what I'm seeing. I'm getting a Geist vibe, where the Underworld is shaped by culture and thematics rather than geography.
 
I'm aliiiiiiiiiiive!

Right around the sidereals kickstarter last year I set aside one of the many great pieces of homebrew posted in the thread aside to fully read and digest when I wasn't so busy, and then the thread backlog grew and grew so I needed to be even less busy to catch up and then I built myself a new computer and spent most of this year catching up on my Steam backlog instead since IRL stuff has largely conspired to keep me from running any games (with the exception of a recent Band of Blades campaign, thanks to that game's deliberately lightweight load of prep work). >.<

Anyway, with Abyssals coming out I finally just said fuck it and caught up on the last ~10 pages instead. :V

Sanctaphrax said:
I could see re-releasing the core book, though. D&D had a 3.5; maybe we could too?

And there might actually be some desire to do that. The core was, after all, the product of a different team.
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I believe Vance has said several times on the Discord that a revised core is something they would like to do, but they don't think it's something they could do for free, and there's uncertainty how much paying appetite there is for it.

Alectai said:
The real hiccup in 3rd edition so far was the whole "BTW we're going to take two, three years where nothing comes out except incremental stuff" period. Things are going briskly now, but we're still waiting on shit like the Lunar companion book if I'm not mistaken.
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Amidatelion said:
EX3 had a rough time from the start, what with the Kickstarter debacle, delays, rewrites, and team changes, followed by the collective nightmare of the pandemic grinding most everything to a halt.
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The pandemic fucked with lots of stuff, fair, but Onyx Path's whole workflow on putting the actual book together, art assets, indexing, and so on, is just glacial even outside of that. I'm sure Paizo got pandemic-slammed along with everyone else, and they still managed a less than one year turnaround on two entire core books of revised player and GM stuff.

elfgames said:
Interesting that Vampire Hunter D is no longer called out among the list of inspirations, albeit not terribly surprising.
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Blaque said:
As good as it is (I think the first scene in Bloodlust especially),, we have kind of been spoiled since with really good adjacent media. Though apparently based on the Discord they just forgot to put it in since it's one fo those "Obviously we would' things I guess.
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The references section just generally seems smaller than in previous splatbooks. I'm not the huge-est into Abyssals, but one of the things I did always picture was the grand gothic melodrama of the Legacy of Kain series. Vibes notwithstanding, thinking it through maybe all the alternate timeline shenanigans makes it weirdly more of a Getimian inspiration?
 
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SerGregness said:
I'm aliiiiiiiiiiive!

Right around the sidereals kickstarter last year I set aside one of the many great pieces of homebrew posted in the thread aside to fully read and digest when I wasn't so busy, and then the thread backlog grew and grew so I needed to be even less busy to catch up and then I built myself a new computer and spent most of this year catching up on my Steam backlog instead since IRL stuff has largely conspired to keep me from running any games (with the exception of a recent Band of Blades campaign, thanks to that game's deliberately lightweight load of prep work). >.<

Anyway, with Abyssals coming out I finally just said fuck it and caught up on the last ~10 pages instead. :V



I believe Vance has said several times on the Discord that a revised core is something he would like to do, but he doesn't think it's something they could do for free, and there's uncertainty how much paying appetite there is for it.





The pandemic fucked with lots of stuff, fair, but Onyx Path's whole workflow on putting the actual book together, art assets, indexing, and so on, is just glacial even outside of that. I'm sure Paizo got pandemic-slammed along with everyone else, and they still managed a less than one year turnaround on two entire core books of revised player and GM stuff.





The references section just generally seems smaller than in previous splatbooks. I'm not the huge-est into Abyssals, but one of the things I did always picture was the grand gothic melodrama of the Legacy of Kain series. Vibes notwithstanding, thinking it through maybe all the alternate timeline shenanigans makes it weirdly more of a Getimian inspiration?
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Just a heads up, Vance uses they/them pronouns.
 
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