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It was a progressive thing, I found tabletop rpgs and then a certain hiatused webcomic and from there. I fell into the glorious escalation rabbit hole that is Creation
 
A friend who I've since fallen out of touch with got me interested by mentioning a custom modern Exalted game where he'd stunted using Cascade of Cutting Terror with a pair of handcuffs to lock them around the legs of a fleeing enemy. Some time later I met more friends who played it and just sort of started absorbing things by osmosis and buying sourcebooks until I reached my current point.
Frakir's brother said:
The thing that made me a regular here is Kerisgame though. Thanks @Aleph!
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Aww. You're a sweetie. ^_^
 
I got introduced to it by a friend back in 1e and played an awesome game of Sidereals racing against time to save a single woman from an Abyssal. It was fast-paced, strange and full of emotional highs and lows.

I immersed myself more into the setting and quickly found myself in love with it, then I lurked White Wolf's forums for a bunch of time and took to enjoying the setting on a deeper level.

I'm kept in this thread by my love for Exalted, my respect for several figures here (most notably @MJ12 Commando, @Omicron, @EarthScorpion, @Aleph, @Revlid, @Dif and @Jon Chung) and the continuing dream that I get to play a game with one of those figures one day.

Which means that I'll probably never leave this thread, since I'd have to wait basically forever. :V
 
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Glorious Shotgun Princess. Of course, I waited for 3e to come out to start getting into the game itself, since I figured that I wouldn't want to have to buy a bunch of sourcebooks that would have to get replaced within a few years. I also had heard a bit about 2.5 being an unmitigated clusterfuck of a mess.
 
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Accelerator said:
I've been meaning to ask this:

How did you guys find exalted?
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My brothers all played Dungeons & Dragons growing up, so I was interested in this stuff from an early age, but when I got into high school, one of my friends was running what amounted to a Mortals game set in Ravenloft using the oWOD engine. I was intrigued by the classless nature of it and the flexibility of the level of customization you have over your character, but when I got ready to try and run my own campaign, I wanted to try and figure out something more for Fighter-types to do in combat than 'I hit the dude' (since this was a mortals game and we weren't using any of the powers involved) in the course of my looking around online for inspiration I found out about Exalted and basically abandoned all the bullshit I was working on once I realized this was what I was looking for anyway. :V
 
Accelerator said:
I've been meaning to ask this:

How did you guys find exalted?
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Back years ago someone said "I'm going to run a Mortals Exalted game" and somehow I ended up reading Scroll of the Monk cause (I was told) all mortals could learn is Martial Arts. I was left with this weird impression of Exalted as this game where you run around punching your enemies into being your concubine (or something). The game never happened. Years later (someone else) said they were running an Exalted game (amusingly, still starting out as mortals). This game DID end up happening and I actually read non-Scroll of Monk books this time.

Various things happened and I've ended up here not currently in a Exalted game but still discussing it.
 
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I didn't remember how i discovered Exalted. At least untill Glorious Shotgun Princess was mentioned.

I am pretty sure i discovered it thanks to that fanfic.
 
After my first long nWoD game concluded, my group was looking for something new. We went to... I think it was Barnes and Noble... And looked through all of the new source books. Everyone was tried of d20 so there weren't many options. Eventually I found Exalted and we had a quick debate over picking it up or Scion instead.

Exalted won out because I found the setting much more interesting than Scion's and I was the group GM.
 
I found it through a friend I since lost touch with, who recommended it on the basis of, uh, how it was a decent way to sate my desire to play one of the Fair Folk, or somebody dealing in those themes. I may have been misled, in retrospect >.>
 
For me, I got into Exalted 2e by way of /tg/, leading into the sup/tg irc back in 2008. I started by joining this at the time fairly huge Exalted irc community. In its heyday, we had something like 12 games running at once.
 
Accelerator said:
I've been meaning to ask this:

How did you guys find exalted?
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Flare said:
It went sorta this way: D&D->Order of the Stick->Keychain of Creation-> here.
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Pretty much this, although without D&D- I've never been that into D&D.

Although I also want to mention reading God-Kings of Lotus, which was the game that hooked me on the 'Exalted as Rulers' concept- and got me really wanting to play Exalted, instead of just reading Keychain of Creation.
 
I wanted to run a game in a setting which resembled a sort of mythical China, and found that Exalted 3E's system was one that might be fun to use since it was new. I kept reading about the setting and decided I liked it, and eventually the game in question (Which I'm still running) decided to take the land we were playing in and import it into Creation.

I'd honestly prefer to start from scratch and use straight up Creation, but out of the people in my group I'm the one who actually likes the base setting the most, and I don't want to erase the work we've done so far.
 
I actually got into it through Graceful Wicket Masques.
Well specifically I had a lot of time to kill, access to all the 2E sourcebooks and for some reason, I decided to read that one first. I actually found it pretty interesting, massive flaws and all that, and it got me into the rest of the setting.
 
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I wanted to run a game in a setting which resembled a sort of mythical China, and found that Exalted 3E's system was one that might be fun to use since it was new. I kept reading about the setting and decided I liked it, and eventually the game in question (Which I'm still running) decided to take the land we were playing in and import it into Creation.

I'd honestly prefer to start from scratch and use straight up Creation, but out of the people in my group I'm the one who actually likes the base setting the most, and I don't want to erase the work we've done so far.
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T'be honest, the setting's deliberately made so you can make your own countries to port in- there's a reason so much of the map is empty space.
 
I was about 13/14 at the time and saw the 2nd Ed Core in my local game shop. I had a fair bit of extra cash in my pocket, got suckered in by the blurb on the back and bought it. Then I read the setting chapter and promptly fell in love (metaphorically speaking, but given what Solars can do...). After that I started hanging around the old WW forums, then later started lurking on SB and SV for other reasons.

And despite all this, I've never actually played in an Exalted game.
 
I got roped into a 1e mortal game by an old friend as my first-ever RPG, though I had been interested in how they worked for years and never really had the compunction to find a group or try things out myself. It was actually a pretty solid intro, and cemented my views that every new Exalted player needs to start out playing either street-level or a mortal-prologue, simply so they have the perspective necessary to not take the rest of the game for granted.

It was a pretty laid-back affair, run somewhere between Warhammer Fantasy levels of piss-and-grit and Terry Pratchet low-key ridiculousness, given that we started off in Nexus, but the one thing my friend did which really made things Work was how he utilized the Exalted from our vantage point. We never met anyother Exalts besides Dragonblooded while we were mortal, and for good reason because when we did, they weren't so much characters but environmental scenery and walking setpieces for "crazy shit is going to happen" helping ease us into RPing as something besides passive observers.

Most other factors in those scenes took a backseat to "there is an Exalt here, work around this obstacle/keep this in mind for what you can do someday," at one point illustrated entirely by getting waylaid by bandits in the midst of an important chase on horseback, and our chaperone Earth Aspect for this particular mission decided that he would handle things while we rode off ahead and engage with the plot. Looking back from our saddles as he had been unhorsed and pushed back up against a nearby cliffside, we deeply considered turning back to rescue him, before he turned around, picked up a house-sized portion of the cliff, and windmill-slammed it into his attackers, pelting our mounts with small bits of stone and human debris from some 300 yards away. That was our challenge as mortals, not fighting the bandits, but calming our spooked horses so we could keep steady pace and not go careening off into the ravine from the aftermath of this Exalt fighting bandits.

"I... think he's got this."

It was a pretty formative experience.
 
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