No, instead it's everything else.
And even then, the Conviction flaw is still bad, because "some action that is contrary to her Motivation" is still vague as hell.
But then again, 2e is terrible blah blah preaching to the choir.
There's no discrete "push this button to negate the Geas" effect that I know of, but it's a valid story to tell. Doing so is likely to have a lot of fallout though. There's a writer quote out there pointing out how they might supplant the Exalted and rule Creation through numerical advantage of their Enlightened and great infrastructural advantage.
That depends on what you mean by "unbalanced" and "horribly" (but further discussion would prrrrobably want to go to a general role-playing thread).
As I recall, the main point was that while their rule would probably be pretty good, it would mean humanity would lose control over its fate. We'd live in relative comfort, but we'd be worker drones tilling fields for our benevolent overlords. It's up to you whether you think that's a good trade.
There were a few methods teased on how to remove it in the Jadeborn book, I think. For example, the Eye of Autochthon may be able to help, or the first of the Jadeborn.
No, instead it's everything else.
And even then, the Conviction flaw is still bad, because "some action that is contrary to her Motivation" is still vague as hell.
But then again, 2e is terrible blah blah preaching to the choir.
There is no actually balanced system for Exalted, even among the conversions, if that's what you're asking. If you mean generally, the only one I'm aware of D&D 4E, which suffers from the far worse flaw of being boring. But it does have the 'advantage' of most builds being close to equally powerful. If you want any more detail on that, you should go to the general Dungeons and Dragons thread.
Yeah.
Not entirely true.
Oath Shattering Strike is Instant.
No it isn't, on account of SMAs and Oath-Shattering Strike being highly stupid all on their own, let alone combined.
It would balance a lot of martial arts issues if martial arts charms can't be comboed with any non-general charms outside of their style.
It would also effectively render them useless for solars save the broken styles that shouldn't exist
Maybe have hero styles be included as well as general charms. (dexterity charms in the case of Lunar's).
.... but that doesn't solve anything!
Yep, i know.
Or you can go for the way more time consuming way of making every martial art an extension of the natural charmset of various beings. This requires allowing different native charms to be used with every different martial art, and rewriting every martial art for every kind of being.
