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HoratioVonBecker said:
No. I'm familiar with (large parts of) the fluff, but wasn't really exposed to the mechanical problems.
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Okay, charm share is hard to do right, and a lot of people just outright dump it. An example would alot of charms that theDragonblooded have, their charmset includes broad access to Reflexive charms, and it's one of their main strengths, but as usual they are balanced because of a Dragonbloods weaker dicepool and their limited essence. But in the hands of a Solar who not only has the best Dicepool in the game, but more essence than a Dragonblooded, it becomes so much more powerful. It alos gives them an advantage over their peers who lack the ability to learn out of splat charms.

Your best bet would be to stick to native charmsets, they are more balanced than if charmshare is included, and it is often more interesting trying to adapt your native abilities to a situation than to just learn a charm from a different kind of Exalted to trivially overcome the issue.
 
notthepenguins said:
Bit tired right now so I'm not feeling up to a full rundown, but basically you write it in the reactions of people interacting with the Exalt, not in the Exalt's actions themselves. The hallmark of charisma and beauty is that people still react very strongly to the possessor even when their words aren't the most compelling or likable.

And well, if someone's going to be obstructive in RP, that's a problem between them and the GM. It's a bit too case by case to give general advice to.
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Aaron Peori said:
Contrast.

First, you have to be an excellent writer. So that you can write beautiful compelling and interesting descriptions and dialogue.

Then you have to reserve that only for the magically enhanced.

Imagine a world where some people are walking around talking like the most well written play or movie you have ever seen and everyone else is just doing normal conversational fumbling and umming and ahhing and mixing up words and just sort of trailing off...

It's the contrast which makes things special. If ever street urchin you meet sounds like a character from a Whedon or Sorkin written story then the fact the super-charisma character also is well written will not stand out at all.

Beauty looks more beautiful when contrasted with ugliness. So learn to write beauty and learn to write ugly and combine the two as needed.
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Food for thought. And it's always handy to talk shop with other writers, yeah.

Thanks for your time.
Aaron Peori said:
Exalted is bad at this. Use the Weapons of the Gods/Legends of the Wulin system. Less sticks, more carrots.
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If I ever have need to actually run something Exalted, I'm planning on it.

Amusingly enough, I've technically never even read an Exalted book, where-as I bought the Legends of the Wulin PDF.
 
Imrix said:
It's real. There's a few pieces of art in that style throughout; I'm not sure what I think of it yet. If nothing else, it's an interesting choice.

SPEAKING OF ART.

Page 577:



Hey that's a pretty cool piece. Hang on a tick tho, that lower left corner looks kind of...



... familiar.
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Now is that liscensed i wonder?
 
The 1st example is more or less just pointing that the old tradition of WW Cheesecake pictures has not been left in the past. The second, however, is actual cause for legal concern.
 
Roadie said:
Onyx Path customers paid more than $650,000 for this book.

Somehow many, many other RPG books avoid using shitty Poser art on a budget of much less than that.
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Cry me a river. That's one example out of well over a hundred pictures, the overwhelming majority of which are very well made. Fixating on one or two pictures out of the entire book is a little whiny to say the least.
 
DissMech said:
Selecting the worst examples of art in a 650 page book as representative of the whole thing strikes me as just a bit dishonest you know?
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If I wanted to use it as a representative sample, in making some statement about the average quality of art in Exalted 3rd edition, yes, it would be dishonest. That's not my intent though. This is more of a "Look what they actually put in the book, this one piece is sooooo bad!"-example. Because while the other pieces of art may be better, the product will still be marred by how bad its worst is.

For all I know they're going to swap out some of these pieces before final publication and the book will be the Second Coming of RPG Art Direction, but in the meantime, I'll point and laugh at really shoddy work.

Like, this isn't some silly anatomy screwup or a face making an unintentional grimace; it's multiple pieces of bad Poser 3D art. And, personally, I feel that "not bad Poser 3D art" is a standard that a professional product can be reasonably held to.
 
Eukie said:
Like, this isn't some silly anatomy screwup or a face making an unintentional grimace; it's multiple pieces of bad Poser 3D art. And, personally, I feel that "not bad Poser 3D art" is a standard that a professional product can be reasonably held to.
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Yeah, even RWBY has the grace to be good Poser 3D art. My real question is about the tattoos. If that's a Lunar, why are they green?
 
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