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- Singapore
General Exalted Thread
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- Denmark
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No man don't give up on the idea! As @horngeek said, Heaven's Reach is a thing, and you can always modify it for your game! I wouldn't feel okay with myself if I just murdered some potentially cool idea by being all 'oh but in canon theres no actual space'!
Now you should totally tell us the idea.
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Goddamn it, it's barely has to do with Exalted!
I just take some of the themes, charms, ideas, martial arts styles, artifacts, and magitech from Exalted. And the gunstar
Graypairofsocks
What is Grammar?
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Well how would you run a game were every player is a priest of cece?
The only good about allowing invulnerability like theres, is that it would safely allow you to use to use a priest as a makeshift weapon.
*wobbles hand*
Maybe? It'd be a much much more valuable thing, though - or an act of subjugation from one 3CD to another. After all, 1CDs basically don't matter, but 2CDs do matter to their parent 3CD.
Nah, remember, it's master-level thaumaturgy. You need Occult 5 to know it, so that really does narrow down the number of 2CDs who could know it.
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- She/Her
Like I'd run a Technocracy game.
We could also ignore their stupid invulnerability or rewrite it as an AST-alike.
Imrix
Periodically Malevolent QM
verily, the cactus-fucker hath fucked up at fucking up, the fuck.
(10/10, would summon and refuse to bind Utprerak just to see what she'd do if given her parole)
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You've really done it again, @TenfoldShields - I really love the biological/anatomical bent you've given Elloge's world-body, and the nuance of-
... And you've completely outpaced my ability to respond again.
So! Despite my great fondness for your sapient mobile fortress who has sunk into ennui and depressed cynicism in the wake of the First Usurpation, I actually prefer Kiraaye just on the weight of his PTSD flashbacks - something about the phrasing of it especially made me think of this moment from the new Doctor Who, and to be honest I'd be on board with more "horrors of the
In other news, I'd be irrationally broken up over not being able to match your output, but I've been busy cobbling together a quest (for either here or Anonkun) based on the FATE setting Save Game, which is essentially Kid Radd with hints of Wreck-It Ralph mixed in.
Wrong one.
The White Ram was The Lidless Eye's Fetich.
Lilike was Adrian's.
notanautomaton
I've got 99 quests, I've finished one
In Ex3, are there any rules for damaging objects? I can't seem to find them.
Page 229, feats of strength and demolition.
notanautomaton
I've got 99 quests, I've finished one
Thanks.
Though, those rules aren't good enough for me. I'm running a quest where the character specced into Drive (well, Travel, but same diff) and I need to have a system where things can target her vehicle in combat. Maybe I'll adapt the sail rules...
You could make it a gambit. Otherwise, I know there's a few attempts at homebrew Ex3 Warstrider rules that might be applicable.
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- Canada
The threadmarked post on the subject includes a list of most of them, the only ones I know of that are missing are the Malfeas healing booster in the Book of Ten-Thousand Scorpions (ignore the lack of the Pantheon key-word there, it has it on Keris's char sheet) and two charms in ES's Oramus write up (only one of which has the key-word, but the other
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Tallying Grandmothers
Lesser Dead
Dead by Many Causes
A scream is heard in the night, in the ancestral dwelling of a well-known family. The family fears what they will find in the morning, because the scream means one of them has died in the night. And sometimes someone might even see an ancient hag hovering over the figure of a sick man, pulling his soul out. His ghost will join the ancestors and be seen among the family hereafter.
Tallying grandmothers are only found in areas of Creation where land ownership passes down the matriline. Women who take ownership of land that previously belonged to another and was not given willingly will find the psychic stress weighs upon them. It burdens their soul with attachments, and for that reason such women often linger as ghosts. They are cursed to watch over the land as long as their blood holds it. Their spectral forms are pale and ephemeral, their skin paperlike, and their legs become chains of mist that tie them to the ground.
These ghosts are psychopomps, though by their nature they subvert the proper order of heaven and Creation. They can appear in the dreams of their descendants, and know when one is about to die - and they scream when this happens, for each dead family member loosens their grasp that holds them from Lethe. Moreover, as matriarch they can snatch up the souls of their dying kin and force them to become ghosts, chaining them with passions of obedience to her. For that reason, tallying grandmothers often become powerful figures within the Underworld, ruling over a chained brood whose obedience to her keep them from passing on. Often a stranger may come across a domain to find that most of the ghosts wear similar features and obey their pallid ancestress.
Wary necromancers do not act incautiously around tallying grandmothers, for they are often powerful ghosts and have many followers who will act to free them. Many necromancers are not wary, however, and will bind them to gain control over their family, both living and death. Exorcists live in a difficult place with such ghosts, because they often have loyal families who have a tradition of serving the tallying grandmother - or at least kin sufficiently terrorised by the fear of the ghost who can track them down that they dare not oppose her. Immaculates know well how these ghosts are often the centre of ancestor cults.
Lesser Dead
Dead by Many Causes
A scream is heard in the night, in the ancestral dwelling of a well-known family. The family fears what they will find in the morning, because the scream means one of them has died in the night. And sometimes someone might even see an ancient hag hovering over the figure of a sick man, pulling his soul out. His ghost will join the ancestors and be seen among the family hereafter.
Tallying grandmothers are only found in areas of Creation where land ownership passes down the matriline. Women who take ownership of land that previously belonged to another and was not given willingly will find the psychic stress weighs upon them. It burdens their soul with attachments, and for that reason such women often linger as ghosts. They are cursed to watch over the land as long as their blood holds it. Their spectral forms are pale and ephemeral, their skin paperlike, and their legs become chains of mist that tie them to the ground.
These ghosts are psychopomps, though by their nature they subvert the proper order of heaven and Creation. They can appear in the dreams of their descendants, and know when one is about to die - and they scream when this happens, for each dead family member loosens their grasp that holds them from Lethe. Moreover, as matriarch they can snatch up the souls of their dying kin and force them to become ghosts, chaining them with passions of obedience to her. For that reason, tallying grandmothers often become powerful figures within the Underworld, ruling over a chained brood whose obedience to her keep them from passing on. Often a stranger may come across a domain to find that most of the ghosts wear similar features and obey their pallid ancestress.
Wary necromancers do not act incautiously around tallying grandmothers, for they are often powerful ghosts and have many followers who will act to free them. Many necromancers are not wary, however, and will bind them to gain control over their family, both living and death. Exorcists live in a difficult place with such ghosts, because they often have loyal families who have a tradition of serving the tallying grandmother - or at least kin sufficiently terrorised by the fear of the ghost who can track them down that they dare not oppose her. Immaculates know well how these ghosts are often the centre of ancestor cults.
After thinking it over a bit, I see the bit of info I was missing: in your work, an Infernal's first 4 souls are all vital souls. If any of them die (or leave, in the case of the Exaltation), the Infernal dies.
In my headcanon, the Coadjutor was about as vital to the Exalt's functioning as a Pantheon Soul with some extra responsibilities and powers, which could be passed off to another soul fairly easily. I hadn't realized that in your work it is as vital to an Infernal's ability to act rationally and control their transcendental insanity as the Ego or Id. (I may have been influenced by the fact that no other kind of Solaroid needs a 4th Soul at all.)
This is the answer to the question I had been asking earlier: Why is an Unwoven Coadjutor background so much more important than an equivalent Ally background?
Taking a step back, if you are going to say that the Coadjutor cannot be killed by lesser souls in the Devil Domain, why can't you invent a new reason for other people to be unable to perma-kill the Coadjutor in its Domain so that people can come visit? This may be me projecting my desire for Infernals in a Circle to be able to visit each others' souls, but, well, I really do want that.
Hell, you don't even have to make it part of the write-up. At this point it's me adjusting how Devil-Domains and Coadjutors work so that people can visit an Infernal's Domain because I think that the Domain has grown far beyond a Pokecomputer. I want people to be able to have adventures in each others' Domains because they are settings, and very interesting ones at that.
The problem is that I want the Devil-Domain to be something other than what you designed it to be. You set out to make a Pokecomputer for Infernal Souls. Because they are Infernal Souls, the example domain became an interesting setting on its own. I looked at that and decided to make one for one of my characters, and then I wanted people to explore it.
Then I reread and saw the bit about how nothing that isn't the Infernal can enter the Domain.
At which point I came here because I wanted to know why I couldn't have my nice adventures, and started wondering why Coadjutors needed to be protected at all.
At this point, I'm just going to edit the description of the Devil Domain so that other people can enter it as if it were a Santum, but both the Coadjutor and the Infernal can reflexively turn it off. If it's off, then everything in it is preserved in stasis until it is turned back on. I might add some expansion charm that lets you Shape it while it is off, including moving it around people with shaping defenses. Then you can move the Domain so that those Dragonblooded that were about to assassinate the Coadjutor are suddenly separated and surrounded by a bunch of demons.
And now I can use it as a setting!
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The problem is, we know that it is possible for a Solaroid who has access to a Domain to permakill the souls of its owner. We know this because that's basically what the Primordial War was all about.
It is definitely a shame, but I don't really see a good way around that.
It is definitely a shame, but I don't really see a good way around that.
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The moment you allow the domain to be reliabily visited, you expose yourself to your players putting everybody they care about there and funding cities on it.
A Devil-domain is supposed to be Elsewhere with a coat of paint, and honestly allowing it to be anything else has quite dubious results.
Aaron Peori
Rest in Peace
I mean, that's a nice sentiment but when the person who created the concept constantly breaks his own rules that is a thoroughly unhelpful one.
And its not like "stuffing entire locations Elsewhere" is particularly new in the setting. We already have Sanctums which are explicitly that, as well as Sorcery like Pressed Beyond the Veil of Time and similar effects which allow you to put entire locations elsewhere.
We also know we can shove an primordials into elsewhere as there is an entire splat taking place in a primordial sitting in elsewhere.
Actually a good way to make the Coadjutor unkillable is to make them metaphysically count as the same being as the exalt so they share the same health levels. You can kill the Coadjutor but the exalt dies with them. This would make letting anyone inside of your soul a massive risk as your Coadjutor is probably easier to kill than you are, but at the same time it gives you access to demonic armies to back you up so it may possible enable victories that would normally not be possible.
Actually a good way to make the Coadjutor unkillable is to make them metaphysically count as the same being as the exalt so they share the same health levels. You can kill the Coadjutor but the exalt dies with them. This would make letting anyone inside of your soul a massive risk as your Coadjutor is probably easier to kill than you are, but at the same time it gives you access to demonic armies to back you up so it may possible enable victories that would normally not be possible.
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Eh. Not quite the same thing. It's possible, even if admitedly quite difficult, to storm such places. The only way* to kill the people inside a devil-domain is to kill the Exalt, making it basically a no-brainer to keep your family/tribe/wharever inside.
*(Unless you allow people to invade the devil-domain without permission, but that is a bad idea for other reasons).
Yep. I'm considering whether it's necessary to say that objects made within the Devil Domain work like things made via WST, only in place of "interacting with Creation", it's "interacting with things other than the Infernal".
Something like
Article: If something crafted within the Devil Domain interacts with entities other than the Infernal and their soul pantheon during a story, its fragile reality begins to disintegrate. Roll the Infernal's Essence against difficulty 2, or if it does not interact with the Infernal or their soul pantheon at all, difficulty 3. After three failures, the object disintegrates into the Yozi essence it was wrought from.
Then you get something akin to Wyld Cauldron Technology to let you sacrifice things to make your soul-products really real. Consumable goods, like "eating food made for you by your souls" are basically fine with that, but mightier things have a much bigger issue.
Basically, you're right: it's not meant to be a safe manufactorum. I want you to summon your souls and have them start turning islands into dark satanic mills (to make dark satanic flour), not just pulling things out of hammerspace.
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Murdering your coadjutor is, like, the opposite of not dealing with your coadjutor. Killing them involves paying significant attention to them.
So I'm not sure why you'd present not buying the merit as an alternative to waging war against your own soul.
I think murderous violence against parts of yourself is cool enough and thematic enough that it should be possible, and I don't see much reason to ban it. Not like it'd break anything...well, except for parts of the perpetrator, but that's the point.
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Honestly, it probably is. The very first idea i had when i read the Domain charm was "Wait, there is nothing here to stop me from enslaving all those demons to work in sweatshops".