General Exalted Thread
The "demon trick" with Quv, incidentally, is that he's honest, reliable and trustworthy and will legitimately safeguard anything you pass to him for the duration of your rental, and will return what you left with him when you want it.
... then you get distracted and forget to reclaim what you left with him (because he's immobile when summoned so if you have to dash off somewhere he can't follow you), or some asshole Sidereal banishes him and then potentially summons him and lets the time on your rental tick out. And then Plot Happens because now your word is in the possession of a Second Circle Demon who now owns your word and can use it for whatever he wants, or sell it to others.
If that fucks you over, just remember whose soul he is.
... then you get distracted and forget to reclaim what you left with him (because he's immobile when summoned so if you have to dash off somewhere he can't follow you), or some asshole Sidereal banishes him and then potentially summons him and lets the time on your rental tick out. And then Plot Happens because now your word is in the possession of a Second Circle Demon who now owns your word and can use it for whatever he wants, or sell it to others.
If that fucks you over, just remember whose soul he is.
Yes. Just like if you're careless, you can render yourself permanently mute by giving your voice to the Weaver of Voices.
Second Circle Demons are things you shouldn't brush off. They're called demon lords for a reason. Forgetting that they're demon lords and just calling them "second circle demons" promotes sloppiness.
Right, didn't that almost happen with Keris?
- Location
- Virginia
@EarthScorpion the other question I have with respect to him is, he's not an infallible guard of his property, surely? Although a summoner's binding can't compel him to give up stuff, you can presumably raid him, find stuff inside, and steal it, no?
Yeah, it's literally inside him. You can totally break in through one of his mouths, smash out his gold teeth, and dungeon-crawl inside him, though he'll try his best to keep his stuff safe.
- Location
- Singapore
Salty
Shadow Cabal Assumptor Supreme
- Location
- Sun, Moon, Talia
- Pronouns
- I/Me
And here I thought the actual demon trick was that you could totally use him as the world's best siege weapon.
- Summon him
- He turfs out the occupants
- Send him back
- Voila! Instant fallen fortress.
- Location
- Singapore
Turf?
Yeah, uh, the sorcerer in question is going to have problems casting a long ritual spell while being stabbed repeatedly by the people who don't want him marking demonic runes and invocations all over the walls.
Yep, they're entirely lootable from the twisted wrecked demonic building left if he's killed.
Salty
Shadow Cabal Assumptor Supreme
- Location
- Sun, Moon, Talia
- Pronouns
- I/Me
You'll never get anywhere in life if you let a little thing like people trying to kill you get in your way!
After all, that's what the cover of night and a bunch of Blood Apes is for.
Dynamesmouse
Bzzzzzz
Quit trying to use the right tools (or demon prince, in this case) for the right job. This is Exalted, you should know better.
Well, I mean. I could totally see an Infernal doing that with their five second version of the spell, entirely because it would be hilarious. A completely inefficient use of the ability, of course, but, well, given the type of people who play them...
- Location
- Ottawa
The first two, yes.
Some people like the third, some don't. Personally I'm not a big fan.
The fourth isn't really a narrative rule the way the first three are. It's more like a patch for 2e's mechanical issues. In a 3e game, you don't really need it. Although it's still a jerk ST move to mess with the ways PCs defend themselves.
I'd add two more rules.
First, Exalted isn't winnable. Might not be lose-able either. You can't create Make Good Decisions Prana. You can't create a Third Age, more glorious than the first, and then just say "happily ever after". Things can always go wrong. And maybe Oblivion or something can actually bring the setting to a permanent bad end, but then again maybe it can't.
Second, the Exalted are un-chump-able. They can fail and die, but not in lame ways that they can't at least try to defend themselves from. So when Saturn makes her mark against Rakan Thulio, and tries to erase him from existence, she fails. Even if he's Essence 1. It would be super lame to have the GM tell you "oops, you don't exist anymore" so therefore Saturn has to fail.
Some people will also include power ceilings on the rules list, saying that you can't have a splat stronger than Solars or an army better than the Dragon-blooded or beings stronger than Primordials. I'm not a big fan of that though.
- Location
- Singapore
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- Location
- Spain
That depends of your definition of "winning".
- Location
- Gladstone, OR
Blessed Regime Instruction 2.0
Cost: 5m
Minimums: Medicine 3, Essence 2
Type: Simple (One Hour)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Flawless Diagnosis Technique, Wound-Mending Care Technique
This Charm is a Dramatic Action in which the Solar composes a treatment plan. These plans range from diets, meditative yoga schedules, and carefully measured prescriptions. Treatment plans can prevent a malady, such as Sickness, Poison, or many kinds of Crippling conditions.
Treating or preventing a mundane malady has a Difficulty of 1, such as composing a healthy diet, treating arthritis, or ensuring a healthy pregnancy. Difficulty 3 treatments works on conditions that require magical aide, such as avoiding supernatural diseases or healing Charm-enhanced injuries. Difficulty 5 treatments could encompass numerous lesser plans, serve as a program for enlightening a Mortal's Essence, or improving the chances of a Terrestrial Exalt passing their Breeding onto the next generation.
If the Solar rolls five or more threshold successes on this roll, she may invoke permanent Medicine Charm such as Wholeness-Restoring Meditation as part of the prescription. However, treatment plans created with Blessed Regime Instruction cannot heal Amputations.
The Solar then selects an intimacy her patient holds as an anchor for this plan, which can be anything, such as loyalty towards the Solar or to the treatment itself. So long as the patient maintains faith, following the plan counts as supernatural treatment, and all attached effects apply in full.
Design Notes:
So I realized while I was walking home the other day that the original version of this charm was kind of scattershot. I have created what I feel is a better take on the concept.
The basic use-case for this Charm is as follows: You create a plan to either treat or prevent some medical condition. Then you target an intimacy the patient holds to hang the treatment on. So long as the patient believes in that intimacy and follows the treatment, it has Magical Effect.
A sort of 'Implied' thing I was considering doing but didn't want to bloat the charm with, was a specific Procedure that a DB could do which improves their Breeding rating in s me balanced way; that way this charm could call out that procedure without eating up lots of space, but it didn't pan out.
Cost: 5m
Minimums: Medicine 3, Essence 2
Type: Simple (One Hour)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Flawless Diagnosis Technique, Wound-Mending Care Technique
This Charm is a Dramatic Action in which the Solar composes a treatment plan. These plans range from diets, meditative yoga schedules, and carefully measured prescriptions. Treatment plans can prevent a malady, such as Sickness, Poison, or many kinds of Crippling conditions.
Treating or preventing a mundane malady has a Difficulty of 1, such as composing a healthy diet, treating arthritis, or ensuring a healthy pregnancy. Difficulty 3 treatments works on conditions that require magical aide, such as avoiding supernatural diseases or healing Charm-enhanced injuries. Difficulty 5 treatments could encompass numerous lesser plans, serve as a program for enlightening a Mortal's Essence, or improving the chances of a Terrestrial Exalt passing their Breeding onto the next generation.
If the Solar rolls five or more threshold successes on this roll, she may invoke permanent Medicine Charm such as Wholeness-Restoring Meditation as part of the prescription. However, treatment plans created with Blessed Regime Instruction cannot heal Amputations.
The Solar then selects an intimacy her patient holds as an anchor for this plan, which can be anything, such as loyalty towards the Solar or to the treatment itself. So long as the patient maintains faith, following the plan counts as supernatural treatment, and all attached effects apply in full.
Design Notes:
So I realized while I was walking home the other day that the original version of this charm was kind of scattershot. I have created what I feel is a better take on the concept.
The basic use-case for this Charm is as follows: You create a plan to either treat or prevent some medical condition. Then you target an intimacy the patient holds to hang the treatment on. So long as the patient believes in that intimacy and follows the treatment, it has Magical Effect.
A sort of 'Implied' thing I was considering doing but didn't want to bloat the charm with, was a specific Procedure that a DB could do which improves their Breeding rating in s me balanced way; that way this charm could call out that procedure without eating up lots of space, but it didn't pan out.
- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
- Location
- Singapore
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This is intriguing. Just what intimacy the user "hangs" the treatment plan on could make for some very interesting situations.
I can see healing up a former/recently defeated foe with this charm, then tacking it onto an intimacy of grudging respect/loyalty towards the caster. It would make for a kind of "and don't forget I didn't just straight up kill you" condition. If the attached intimacy began to be corroded or lessened (perhaps through planning further rebellion against the Solar's authority?) would the healing effect slowly wear off as it happens, first causing scars to ache and eventually grievous wounds to reopen?
Healing up your mortal or non-exalted allies and attaching the treatment plans to intimacies of loyalty to your nation or cause could be amazing. I'm picturing a Solar medic making difficulty 5 treatment plans for already trained Tiger Warriors to awaken their Essence, having them do extra push ups, sit ups, and meditation as part of the regimen. Helping them push themselves to the limits might even assist in making them potential future candidates for Exaltation.
Imrix
Periodically Malevolent QM
Ehhh, depends on your definition of 'chumpable'. Personally, I think an important part of Exalted is that it respects the very cynical approaches, where the best way to kill an opponent is to get a dozen skilled fighters to shank him three dozen times when the sucker is on the loo. The Exalted should totally be able to go out like Julius Ceasar, mobbed and butchered without any hope of survival, as a consequence of their decisions and their path in life.
Much of the Usurpation went down like that, I think. The Solars died ignominious, inglorious deaths, because the victory of the Dragonblooded was to crush the idea that the Lawgivers were the protagonists of the story.
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