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runeblue360 said:
I guess I could do it? If people were willing to tag me in any homebrew posts of theirs and ideally provide an elegantly crafted link along with it for me to copy and paste.

Give me a second to look through the threadmarks and I'll tag the various posters.

@Stormwhite, @rogthnor, @Parabola, @horngeek, @greensun, @Graveless, @Catty Nebulart, @SerGregness, @Aleph, @GardenerBriareus, @Anyone else with homebrew but not a collection that I have missed out

Would you guys mind if I put your stuff in an archive of this thread's homebrew?
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Long as I'm still credidited I'm fine. Though my current stuff is already threadmarked
 
runeblue360 said:
I guess I could do it? If people were willing to tag me in any homebrew posts of theirs and ideally provide an elegantly crafted link along with it for me to copy and paste.

Give me a second to look through the threadmarks and I'll tag the various posters.

@Stormwhite, @rogthnor, @Parabola, @horngeek, @greensun, @Graveless, @Catty Nebulart, @SerGregness, @Aleph, @GardenerBriareus, @Anyone else with homebrew but not a collection that I have missed out

Would you guys mind if I put your stuff in an archive of this thread's homebrew?
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Go for it!

I'll consolidate links to mine here since I don't think many of them are threadmarked.
 
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ManusDomine said:
For your information, I've been moving the threadmarks around a bit to organize them, so all @EarthScorpion's sorcery stuff goes in one place, all his Taira stuff goes in one place and so on.
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Fair enough. Do you want to arrange the homebrew by authors or by category? Like we could nest all the demons under a big compilation like the cherry green demonicon, ghosts under the pale apple ghost compilation, and then organize under that by author, or we could just associate by authors.
 
Jemnite said:
Fair enough. Do you want to arrange the homebrew by authors or by category? Like we could nest all the demons under a big compilation like the cherry green demonicon, ghosts under the pale apple ghost compilation, and then organize under that by author, or we could just associate by authors.
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I think that category is most useful so you don't have to remember which author did That Thing You Liked (it was probably @EarthScorpion FYI).
 
Alright, so I've been thinking about Demons and 1010 quest. If 1010 gets the ability to summon Second Circles after the timeskip, which should she grab? Which would be best for fighting an army of undead/wood users? My initial thought is that Octavian is a shoo-in, and maybe the Player of Games as well. Any others come to mind?
 
In other news, when Scion comes out I intend to homebrew up a conversion to play Exalted in the StoryPath system. Would anyone be interested in working with me on that?

Note: anyone whose response to this is 'It's unpossible to convert Exalted to StoryPath' will be summarily ignored. The verb, not the site function.

Also, @EarthScorpion I'm thinking about adding stats to some of your demons. Could I have your permission to do so?
 
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I must say I find the Storypath system very interesting, and look forward to seeing the whole of it when Scion and Trinity come out.

@notanautomaton , I can't say I'll be able to work with you on trying to convert Exalted to Storypath atm, but I will be looking forward to whatever you make.
 
So people seem to bring up that Halta is really badly written, but the only part of that that I've seen elaborated on is that in 2e (and 1e?) they were apparently somehow the only people in the entire world who had figured out how to make crossbows (which is several kinds of stupid), and the complete logistical impossibility of the Bull of the North's alliance and attack. As someone who doesn't really remember much more about them than "they live in trees" and constantly confuses them with the Haslanti (which is actually one of the ones I really like) because of their kind of similar names, what's the problem with them?
 
Leingod said:
So people seem to bring up that Halta is really badly written, but the only part of that that I've seen elaborated on is that in 2e (and 1e?) they were apparently somehow the only people in the entire world who had figured out how to make crossbows (which is several kinds of stupid), and the complete logistical impossibility of the Bull of the North's alliance and attack. As someone who doesn't really remember much more about them than "they live in trees" and constantly confuses them with the Haslanti (which is actually one of the ones I really like) because of their kind of similar names, what's the problem with them?
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Nah; amusingly, the crossbow guys were the 2e Haslanti.
 
Leingod said:
So people seem to bring up that Halta is really badly written, but the only part of that that I've seen elaborated on is that in 2e (and 1e?) they were apparently somehow the only people in the entire world who had figured out how to make crossbows (which is several kinds of stupid), and the complete logistical impossibility of the Bull of the North's alliance and attack. As someone who doesn't really remember much more about them than "they live in trees," what's the problem with them?
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Aleph said:
Oh, it's better than that. They control an area the size of the Realm without access to the ground. Anyone who knows anything whatsoever about the dependence of a large society on agriculture will instantly, instantly call bullshit on that one.

And then yes, they're a super special snowflake barbarian culture who live in trees but have advanced bureaucracy and high rates of literacy and good health and they're liberal and accepting of beastmen and they have gods and First Age Lunars on their side and the Linowa are fighting them with Realm aid so they're (one of) the LONE UNDERDOG(s) STANDING UP AGAINST THE REALM, and...

... it's nauseatingly Mary Sueish, frankly. Not to mention completely fucking stupid. At best, you should have disparate groups of "Haltan tribes" in the same way that you have "Amazonian tribes" - no unification, just a common environment, with thaumaturgic wards on their villages (often but not always arboreal, because that makes them easier to defend even when the wards don't work) that make them fairly safe from the raksha bands native to the area. They're not at war with Linowa as a whole, because there is no whole, but the tribes near the Linowan border attack them and are attacked in turn, and while they're less advanced they have guerilla supremacy in the forest - rather like the US in Vietnam. There should certainly be none of the "enlightened and accepting", "talking animals", "high literacy", "advanced bureaucracy" crap going on (though beastmen are, frankly, their own problem), because that's just Mary Sue on top of Mary Sue.

And hey, with the monopolity that is Halta broken, there's space to look at real-life historical "high latitude forested cultures" - parts of Russia, Sweden-Norway-Finland, maybe bits of Canada, the northern-most bits of Japan, etc - and put a few kingdoms and realistic societies down in that region. Ones that, you know, don't suck.
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Leingod said:
So people seem to bring up that Halta is really badly written, but the only part of that that I've seen elaborated on is that in 2e (and 1e?) they were apparently somehow the only people in the entire world who had figured out how to make crossbows (which is several kinds of stupid), and the complete logistical impossibility of the Bull of the North's alliance and attack. As someone who doesn't really remember much more about them than "they live in trees" and constantly confuses them with the Haslanti (which is actually one of the ones I really like) because of their kind of similar names, what's the problem with them?
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@Aleph is a wise woman. Heed her wisdom.

Edit: Curse you @Broken25, but on the other hand it's funny that we both instantly went for @Aleph's post. :V
 
I'd be okay with the 'talking animals bit' if it was alone in making Halta unique. Like, talking animals, tree-houses, generally independent of the Realm, though Realm-backed Linnowan tribes raid them regularly along the borders. Done.

Also, here's the Liber Malfea, which will become a document of demons and related things. I'm planning on starting off with converting demons from Earthscorpion into 3e, as soon as he gives me his blessing. (I've done one so far, before I'd thought to ask for permission. Sorry)
 
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