No, not really. Of course it doesn't consider it a problem, since the game has always had as a goal to have vast stretches of 'drop your own cool piece of setting there' on the map, but you can disagree with that notion and all.
The world got bigger, and they haven't released any new source books so far, so...if anything it got worse?
so, exactly what i said then lol
Yeah, but you aren't doing it without caveats. You're openly and explicitly writing from a perspective that includes "it's flawed, but the flaws are things I largely don't run into and/or my personal talents deal with easily." which is fair enough.
Amusingly, I got relatively little 'dev advice' as a playtester. Spoon-feeding people corrections when they made any but the most grievous mistakes would have kind of spoiled the point, so a lot of what I got was cryptic mumblings of interests and 'we'll look into that.'
Eh, there being a lot of space that's not heavily elaborated upon isnt necessarily bad, it's when the actual in depth locations are all seperated by vague lands, essentially that players and gm's have to homebrew if they want to travel between the defined lands.
3e isn't perfect. I also do not consider many of the things people call flaws to be, you know. Flaws. My issues are more like...most of Linguistics feels like it will literally never be relevant in any game. The fuck-ups with the art. A reference to Lunars as slaves to the Solars in the First Age (to be fair it's only mentioned once that I can find, and not in the Lunars section, I suspect its an editing relic that got dropped like a hot coal). Errors in formatting resulting in important stats in the antagonists section being missing, that one pisses me off, but they had like 3 guys doing the writing and editing so whatever, mistakes happen.
Given that the context was an expansion on CBT context, I think 'mistakes' is not quite the descriptor. But maybe I'm overanalyzing the heritage of MJ12's post. In which case, I'm sorry.
It's not like the 2e books get significantly more love than 3e here either. Nor does the WoD, judging by the other thread.
It can get grating to have people going on about how obviously flawed Craft is and how it needs fixing for general publish, or how MAs are clearly a bad way to handle game design being spoken as though it were objective fact. Also, 2e is far more actually broken. Seriously, that game is like glass made out of paper maiche.
I actually can't find the Ox Dragon picture in my pdf of the book. Which page is it on?
Page 570. A.k.a. three fucking pages away from its actual write-up. I doubt you even realized it was supposed to be an Ox-Dragon. It's the thing with the giant horn and the orange glowing mouth.
News at eleven.
I'm actually still in a 2.5 game. Attempts were made for a 3e conversion but it would have required homebrewing Lunars, Sidereals, Dragonblooded, Alchemicals, and Infernals as well as Third Circle Demons and mighty spirits. Also there were troubles converting one of the characters in a way the player liked. So we stuck with 2.5. At 858xp. Filled with homebrewed SMAs and mad scientist dinosaurs and cars that were once dragons. It's insane in all the best ways.
I thought it was a Quoll Lion.
It's not even an Ox-Dragon! It's a bizarre fantasy dinosaur! The hack they hired didn't even read the damned blurb! He just drew a Horned Fantasy Dinosaur!
Insofar as that's a problem, it's not one that it's really possible to fix without detailing every pixel of Creation's map, which is both insane and brings its own, much bigger problems with it.
Well, a professional will have about five to six dice in what they do, right? So if the character has that, they can do anything a professional could regularly do. In this continuing example, land a plane. So, yeah. Whatever your skill is and attributes at 2 and the specialty is 5 dice, so you can land the plane under normal circumstances.
My guess is that this, in turn, was caused by wanting to avoid the opposite problem: existence of Cool Locales 'in a vacuum'. Imagine that the Trade Federation and the Galactic Republic were situated in different galaxies, with neither the resources nor reason to be at each other's throats, and without any similar-calibre opposing forces in their respective regions. That wouldn't allow for epic clashes on a galactic scale!
The difference there is that the Realm exists as a foundation of Exalted's setting, while Whitewall and Chiaroscuro exist as places within that same setting. When we discuss Whitewall, it is important and necessary to make clear its relationship with the Scarlet Empire for the same reason it is important and necessary to make clear its relationship with gravity. And in both cases, "none" is an answer that is surprising but not totallly impossible.
That's very much not true. As a very simple example: if you do your tertiary attributes as 5/1/1, that's 40 XP worth of dots; if you do 3/2/2, that's 20 XP worth of dots. There's a difference of 20 XP just in choosing one Attribute category.
No-o-o-t really.