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rogthnor said:
People.

I have a problem

Help

For reals though. Im dming for two solars, one a sort of warrior/general type and one pure social and im also running my first big fight

So, uh, what do I do to keep the social guy engaged in combat?
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Talk to your social guy and make him buy combat capability. Give him free resources to do so. Similarly, give your combat guy free resources so he can buy something to make himself relevant in social scenes. You really don't want to have a Decker Problem, especially not with all of two people in the game.

A big problem that Exalted has always had is that it's far too easy to specialize your character to the point where you are only good at doing anything in your niche, while simultaneously anyone that can keep up with you in that niche is going to crush all your unspecialized friends with effortless ease. The system will encourage you to do this due to the BP/XP discrepancy and the way dicepools work. The setting will encourage you to do this due to Caste roles in the fluff.

As GM, you should probably attempt to convince your players via the liberal application of free shit to not do this and avoid monospeciality builds, or else your life is gonna suck.
 
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Why is free stuff necessary for that? Throw some moderate challenges at them, of types selected along simulationist (anyone out on the Old North Road at night, alone and not obviously supernatural, has a 20% chance to be robbed by 2d6 Generican bandits, secretly sponsored by the Duke of Generica due to such-and-such political agenda) rather than gamist ("level-appropriate encounter") or narrativist ("plot-appropriate struggle") lines, then discuss the issue of minimizing weaknesses vs. maximizing strengths when the time comes to spend XP.

If somebody's already good enough at swords that they're running into Saitama problems where any sword-related challenge they're likely to find is finished too quick, the solution to that has to be something other than them investing even more XP into being even better at swords. They've already hit the point of diminishing returns and cruised on into the crater beyond it. This should be recognized as a moment of absolutely pure roleplaying, in the sense that the in-character and out-of-character incentives align perfectly: "Start working on some of your other problems. Would you rather be frustrated and humiliated by struggling with the basics of some new skill category now, under controlled training conditions? Or later, when it's somehow a matter of life and death?"
biscuitz1 said:
I have core 3e and core 2e, Part of it is that i have trouble like putting together all the things without like experience.
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There's also the questions thread: Exalted Questions Thread - Pen & Paper | Page 69
 
strange_person said:
Why is free stuff necessary for that?
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Because players resent it when you force them to spend resources they would prefer to spend on their speciality on mandatory things that they are definitionally not that interested in, so give them free stuff that can only be spent on the things you want them to be competent at doing. It is also easier to accomplish this by simply telling your players you are trying to avoid a Decker Problem than twist the setting in implausible knots to attempt to passively-aggressively make them do what you want.

Nobody has time for this. Draw an appropriate sword and cut the knot accordingly.
 
The Phoenixian said:
I like it! Will their name be Vo Gon by any chance?
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It's Rising Light In the Night Sky. A super corny name she came up with he best friend a Night Caste who is, Rising Shadows in the Sunlight Sky. Her real name is just Gabby.

She is a Melee Supernal who doesn't even bother using her sword if she doesn't think an opponent is worthy. She just starts writing poetry while casually kicking them in the face. Only pulls out the sword when she actually takes an opponent seriously, which is almost never.

This his her first Haiku:
My middle fingers
Rise high to the sky
Suck on this
 
MiracleGrow said:
It's Rising Light In the Night Sky. A super corny name she came up with he best friend a Night Caste who is, Rising Shadows in the Sunlight Sky. Her real name is just Gabby.

She is a Melee Supernal who doesn't even bother using her sword if she doesn't think an opponent is worthy. She just starts writing poetry while casually kicking them in the face. Only pulls out the sword when she actually takes an opponent seriously, which is almost never.

This his her first Haiku:
My middle fingers
Rise high to the sky
Suck on this
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Amazing. *chef kiss*
 
HamSandLich said:
According to 2e, the lowest part of the Labyrinth houses continent sized tomb-cities that contain the Neverborn, but seeing as how Primordials are technically just sets of concepts and charms manifesting in physical form, the point where the Neverborn end and their tombs begin may be nonexistent.
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Don't think about it to hard. Primordials are living genus loci, Neverborn are dead-yet-forever-dying genus loci. The tomb may in fact hold a dead world, or the tomb could be that dead world surrounding the corpses of their many avatars and forms. Pick whichever is cooler.
 
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Peanut-007 said:
Don't think about it to hard. Primordials are living genus loci, Neverborn are dead-yet-forever-dying genus loci. The tomb may in fact hold a dead world, or the tomb could be that dead world surrounding the corpses of their many avatars and forms. Pick whichever is cooler.
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Now I wonder if the tombs would be different on the inside to match the nature of each neverborn, like the dragon that was is just a void that sucks all like and the engine of extinction is just a machine that of necrotech essence, blood, and other sorts of corpsy thing
 
biscuitz1 said:
Now I wonder if the tombs would be different on the inside to match the nature of each neverborn, like the dragon that was is just a void that sucks all like and the engine of extinction is just a machine that of necrotech essence, blood, and other sorts of corpsy thing
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I mean the engine of extinction is obviously the titular machine for pigs...
 
today in lookshy dragonblooded

- "remember to die for the motherland!!!" i cheerily yell at a man in lieu of ripping his head off for insulting me
- we take turns roasting @Spear
- @Omicron is forced to murder a man
- @Pale Wolf continues to be the cutest unassuming My Little Insurgent among the lookshyan gentes
- @ManusDomini regrets ever running mortals combat
 
mothematics said:
today in lookshy dragonblooded

- "remember to die for the motherland!!!" i cheerily yell at a man in lieu of ripping his head off for insulting me
- we take turns roasting Spear
- Omicron is forced to murder a man
- Pale Wolf continues to be the cutest unassuming My Little Insurgent among the lookshyan gentes
- ManusDomini regrets ever running mortals combat
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Nah, Thalia isn't an insurgent.

You'll know she's decided insurgency is the answer when Navona wakes up with a knife in her ribs.
 
Pale Wolf said:
Nah, Thalia isn't an insurgent.

You'll know she's decided insurgency is the answer when Navona wakes up with a knife in her ribs.
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1) this will absolutely happen
2) all this will result in is an angry Navona waving a bloody knife and ranting angrily as her medic runs after her trying to get her to lie down because she's fucking Navona and her muscle cuirass is made of literal muscle
 
GardenerBriareus said:
Presumably some flavor of alt-right fuckstick, since most of what I've heard about @Omicron's PC indicates that the character is an exemplar of alt-right fuckstick archetype #361 ("Advocate of Repugnant Ideology"), subcategory B ("Ignorant/Lacking Self-Awareness.")
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>Alt-right
>In my perfect iron age fantasy world exalted
>ThingAgainBuddy.wav
 
ManusDomini said:
>Alt-right
>In my perfect iron age fantasy world exalted
>ThingAgainBuddy.wav
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From what I can remember gathering from various posts in the past, she's the setting equivalent of a modern-day rich person bloviating about how slavery was a choice and poor people are poor due to their inferior work ethic, while also going around using her supernatural eugenics powers to butcher anyone who tries to cast off the yoke of oppression. That such viewpoints are the norm for the world she lives in, and that she's largely oblivious to how utterly abhorrent the system she's stanning so hard for is to anyone who isn't in the 0.01%, doesn't make it any less evocative of RL right-wing douchebags.

Based on the most recent round of posts on the subject, her PC murdered a helot who dared stand against his "betters" while monologuing about how he's losing because the socioeconomically disadvantaged are meant to spend their lives and happiness for the comfort and betterment of the socioeconomically fortunate.

Now, I'm going off of fragmentary information glued together out of a conversation between people who clearly have unspoken context behind their words, but the picture I'm getting is that you're running a Breaking Bad sort of campaign where the protagonists aren't intended to be likable or moral.
 
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