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isn't lydia supposed to automatically get exp now as a companion or does that come later?
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
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Yes, a quarter of Molly's XP.
Since Molly earned 16xp, Lydia has 4xp.
Thats why all the plans have Molly with 18xp(16 earned this turn, plus 2 from the bank) while Lydia has 4.
While I also added Ox Body to my plan for Lydia, carriage of the Ankou is a viable alternative, because a suit of heavy power armor would almost certainly count as a carriage for Lydia. And we could make her one with CCoP.
In general, I think additional 2 dice of craft and narrative weight of moving to near-perfection are more important at this moment than another Ox Body for Molly. We could make a better armor with it to cover for Ox Body if nothing else.
1) Power armor is armor, not a vehicle; its worn, not driven. Carriage of the Ankou doesnt apply.
Not to mention that power armor is neither lowprofile nor something she can keep on herself 24/7, and there's rules to donning power armor to boot, all of which makes it useless in a pop-up fight.
2)I dont agree.
I was here when The Will nuked like 4HLs off Lydia's then-health bar, forcing us to send her out of the battlespace in order not to risk her dying. And if she had accompanied us to face Arianna and her posse, she would have been hurt a lot worse given all the vampires in the place.
Hell, the damage that Lara Raith suffered from Duke Skavis would have inflicted enough wound penalties on Lydia that she would not have been combat capable; she has no wound negators, so once she suffers 3x HLs of damage, she's into the -1HLs and all her dice pools begin to lose dice.
Death spiral.
She really needs both the HP and better armor. Armor thats actually available 24/7, and in all circumstances.
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hey @DragonParadox can lydia get an exp for discovering the existence of our afterlife? After all its literally progress towards largely helping one of her intimacies.
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Uh random lore question do any of our powers let us observe a threshold?
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We probably want to level our crafting one more time before wasting rare materials on crafting though right? Hey @DragonParadox when we get the sufficient exp to level crafting and we are about to craft can we quick spend some exp if possible for it even if the arcs not finished yet?
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Thats either a Perception + Occult roll, I suspect, or potentially Perception + Awareness, if we had any points in Awareness.
Thats only absolutely necessary if you are trying to craft high tier shit from the get go.
We arent. Or at least shouldnt be.
Our immediate needs are not high-tier stuff.
Yeah thinking about it she should get 2 XP one for that and one for dealing with Charles.
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craftings probably the next upgrade we're going for anyways though ain't it and we have some of the resources needed for said highish tier shit? Like we're never gonna be a craft focus exalt of course but some cool shit would be nice.
Why not? No, seriously, why shouldn't we be aiming at decently high tier equipment from the word "go"? Our most precious resource is AP. if we can spend 3 XP here and have one less round of crafting equipment for everyone, that's a big win in my book.
And with our kingdom being there, we have access to most of the resources we'd ever need. Next tier would be synthesizing orichalcium and such.
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I was thinking just asking dp if we could spend the xp when we get around to crafting I'm sure we'll be around that much exp by the time we take the action. Its not without basis I think we've spent exp twice before an arc ended now.
Lydia is admittedly a problem for my preferred anti-minion solution, which would be Anonymity Through Propriety. Makes the minions unable to target us and also prevents our use of RVD from freaking out every water spirit on earth.
[X] Plan Crafting Godqueen and Sturdy Companion
-[X] Molly - 18xp
--[X] Constructive Convergence of Principles - 15xp
--[X] Craft 4 - 3xp
-[X] Lydia - 6xp
--[X] Oxen Body - 3 XP
--[X] 3 XP banked
Also, could someone refer me to the table of Essence rates, please? How much XP does Molly need to spend to acquire the next level of Essence?
-[X] Molly - 18xp
--[X] Constructive Convergence of Principles - 15xp
--[X] Craft 4 - 3xp
-[X] Lydia - 6xp
--[X] Oxen Body - 3 XP
--[X] 3 XP banked
Also, could someone refer me to the table of Essence rates, please? How much XP does Molly need to spend to acquire the next level of Essence?
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Okay.
That gets banked I guess, for the next most important thing on Lydia's buy-list: A Shaping Defense.
Because our immediate needs from Exalted Crafting is not high tier stuff.
We need:
- Interdimensional cellphones that are always in service range and cant be spied on electronically or tracked. At a minimum, we'll need them for Molly, Lydia and possibly both Harry and Michael
- Low-profile, always available armor for Lydia
- Speed and feat of strength booster items for Molly and Lydia
- An Essence battery/Jade Talisman for Lydia
None of this is particularly high-tier stuff, and none of it is expected to particularly benefit from an extra 2 or 4 crafting dice on top of the 18 dice we can already throw at the problem even without assistants.
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Armored clothing that doesn't impede the exalt wearing it is a 2 dot prodigy, so it can be made without sacrifice or special worksite. We could make that slotless, but I think a better upgrade for the 3 dot cost is making it something like glamored armor.
Something that can look like or transform into different outfits so that the user can wear it all the time (as long as they don't mind daily laundry anyway). That should only cost a reagent equivalent to a vial of elder vamp blood to make. Honestly I think that might be more useful than what Molly currently has in the same role.
For her weapons I think we should provide some minor convenience and flexibility for the moment and replace it with something better when it becomes necessary.
Here's the 1 dot prodigy description:
Typically they can only have a single enchantment or a pair of related functions, but the 1 dot base enhancements are one of the exceptions.
So we could pay for a 2 dot item with the enhancement bonuses and a single other low grade effect with nothing but motes.
I'm thinking brass knuckles like she currently has with the "always on you when you need them" property, -1 difficulty on attack, and either the double range effect or +1 damage bonus. Technically nothing in the rules says the range thing is limited to ranged weapons, but if that gets ruled as out of scope for 1 dot effects then the damage buff is the next best option.
We can make better stuff eventually, but a few quicker projects to start with would be helpful.
We should still do it, but I think there's value in creating a weaker stuff to fill holes we don't have the time or resources to put major projects towards yet*.
There's also the matter of our minions. For the price of a 2 dot prodigy we can make a 1 dot item useable by non exalts (though attunement means they can't wield many unless we buy that down too). We could manufacture guns of -1dc on attacks and x2 range at the cost of 10 essence and a 2 hour ritual with no risk to our surroundings by RaW.
Starting with a single big project mixed with however many little ones we can fit so that we can cover multiple issues and people at once seems more efficient than making a few higher tier items.
* One thing I'd like to make soon would be glasses that highlight supernatural phenomena that we see through them. Mechanically either a dice adder or difficultly reducer for awareness, since we're bad at that. I'd even say it's worth making them as a 3 dot item so we can make the bonus fairly significant.
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Once we have the crafting charm we can do something about that. We've mostly been focusing on the big projects, but 1-2 dot prodigies for convenience stuff would be nice. We need to mind the attunement limit, but we can pay to remove the need for that per the base rules.
Armored clothing that doesn't impede the exalt wearing it is a 2 dot prodigy, so it can be made without sacrifice or special worksite. We could make that slotless, but I think a better upgrade for the 3 dot cost is making it something like glamored armor.
Something that can look like or transform into different outfits so that the user can wear it all the time (as long as they don't mind daily laundry anyway). That should only cost a reagent equivalent to a vial of elder vamp blood to make. Honestly I think that might be more useful than what Molly currently has in the same role.
For her weapons I think we should provide some minor convenience and flexibility for the moment and replace it with something better when it becomes necessary.
Here's the 1 dot prodigy description:
Typically they can only have a single enchantment or a pair of related functions, but the 1 dot base enhancements are one of the exceptions.
So we could pay for a 2 dot item with the enhancement bonuses and a single other low grade effect with nothing but motes.
I'm thinking brass knuckles like she currently has with the "always on you when you need them" property, -1 difficulty on attack, and either the double range effect or +1 damage bonus. Technically nothing in the rules says the range thing is limited to ranged weapons, but if that gets ruled as out of scope for 1 dot effects then the damage buff is the next best option.
We can make better stuff eventually, but a few quicker projects to start with would be helpful.
High tier stuff is expensive and time consuming. There are also issues with our work potentially damaging whatever dragon nest we make them in at the top level.
We should still do it, but I think there's value in creating a weaker stuff to fill holes we don't have the time or resources to put major projects towards yet*.
There's also the matter of our minions. For the price of a 2 dot prodigy we can make a 1 dot item useable by non exalts (though attunement means they can't wield many unless we buy that down too). We could manufacture guns of -1dc on attacks and x2 range at the cost of 10 essence and a 2 hour ritual with no risk to our surroundings by RaW.
Starting with a single big project mixed with however many little ones we can fit so that we can cover multiple issues and people at once seems more efficient than making a few higher tier items.
* One thing I'd like to make soon would be glasses that highlight supernatural phenomena that we see through them. Mechanically either a dice adder or difficultly reducer for awareness, since we're bad at that. I'd even say it's worth making them as a 3 dot item so we can make the bonus fairly significant.
No it isn't.
The Fallen, whatever else they are, aren't cowards. Remember that they decided it was a good idea to run hands with god, and still haven't given up on winning in the end.
They are as a faction some of the best con artists in reality, and Lash is born of that legacy. She isn't the human daughter of a monster, those thoughts are her thought, those memories her memories, Lash thinks and acts like a fallen would in her position.
Our big dice pools and personal planet where we make the rules are impressive, but she's used to dealing with archangels. If that was enough this would be a more common occurrence.
Lash is slowly becoming something more than she started as because of Harry's bullshit protagonist powers, but what she becomes doesn't have to be nice and we don't really know if she's even there yet in the first place.
Assigning trust, good will, common decency, or sane motives to the mentality of a fallen Angel is a mistake.
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if its only half a year until her canon death I think harrys pretty damn close to basically seducing the seducer here.
While we might be able to get away with the bare minimum, I have rather more extensive plans, and armor at least can benefit from extra dice.
I'm not proposing high tier stuff. I am proposing high quality stuff. If we, for example, requisition magical materials from the courts, I would rather use them to the utmost potential (also probably do a master class / demonstration to master craftsmen in order to establish our place among them not just as a religious figure).
On 2 more XP - I am very tempted to get Lydia Carriage of the Ankou, and make her a low profile transport disguised as a car. What do people think? It's not critical for me, but I would like it. It's a good foundational charm.
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One thing to keep in mind is that Harry is still working the items you took off the Will of Kakuri and among those objects is what looks to Molly's eye like some kind of Chi storing talisman. So you might want to hold off on making your own until he gets that to you at the start of the month.