Dynamesmouse
Bzzzzzz
I meant a link to the set, not the anathema program.
General Exalted Thread
Oh.
The last file in the mediafire is a text file called "Links to complete charm descriptions." Just view or download that and copy the links to your address bar.
The Oramus charms are actually held on this site, in a quest thread. They're about halfway down the page.
Green Sun, Black Shadows (CG/Exalted)
Romantic_Kaiju
Romantic Kaiju
- Location
- National Battlefield
EarthScorpion, how exactly do these Cargo Ships Move? Sail, Prop, or That kinda newish water intake Propulsion method?
I figure they use Essence Fuels for propulsion, but won't need as high a grade as the High Queen's vessel.
- Location
- The end of all things
If a deliberately triggered localized volcanic explosion is not an attack, I'm not sure what is. This sort of pedantry is why they got rid of keywords like shaping. SSE dodges any attack, even up to recurring uncountable damage. There isn't some hole in the middle where it's useless against an effect that merely will almost certainly kill you.
You can also use Heavenly-Guardian Defense or Adamant Skin Technique.
When I said one Ox-Body, I meant it. That's enough that it takes 15 levels of damage to kill you.
It's what you'd expect from a large explosion to big to dodge. There were plenty of things like that in the past. It's just that they were generally all either shaping or environmental effects and thus entirely harmless to a prepared Solar.
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FaeGlade Plural
Semper Legens
- Location
- Land of Bureaucracy
- Pronouns
- Plural/They
Perfect Defenses work just fine too. All it does is auto-hit and deal 25 HL of damage to you (which may still have to be rolled, so it'd be more like 10. Not sure though).
With Seven-Shadow Evasion, you dodge it outright. If you're fighting someone with Volcano Cutter, you might want to save that charm for that moment.
With Heavenly Guardian Defense, you can remove successes on a damage roll. So you either need to use it ~10 times or 25 times, which is admittedly very expensive but it's theoretically doable.
Adamant Skin Technique let's you apply your full armored soak against it. So it could reduce the damage by up to 16 (Stamina 5, Artifact Heavy Armor), which either outright eliminates it (if it's 25 dice that have to be rolled) or should reduce it sufficiently that you'll survive (to 9 damage, but you should have Ox-bodies).
Also, speaking of the Craft-System:
It is IMO a good attempt at a very complex, evocative craft-system.
Mostly, I am questioning the need for quite as much complexity. The most complicated sub-system in the book other than combat (it's arguably bordering the social system in complexity) and the most charms of any ability? Frankly, it's overkill both by itself and in comparison to the other subsystems.
And there is a not too complicated way to make Crafting still just as interesting, so why not take it? It's just using a less-complex subsystem (Sorcerous Workings) and a bit from another ability (Lore Specializations) and voila, there we go.
This brings my house-rule count up to three by the way:
- Craft Revision
- Messing with the BP-system (mostly, a player can go and change how they were spent retroactively to optimize their amount of XP).
- Martial Arts is now one ability, but you need the Merit for each Style you want to learn
- Location
- Gladstone, OR
I... I am honestly baffled here. I am completely lost as to why this continues as is has been.
Exalted 3rd edition has regressed back to Exalted 1st Edition in terms of mechanical clarity and interaction. Oh I'm sure there are some standout bits that are fine, but-
I have consistently seen sprinkled about, Charms that are all described as being invoked in relation to each other or 'Effects' like themselves. We have regressed back from a useful (if admittedly complex) order of modifiers table, and much the same for Combat and it's flow.
Yeah just... I am baffled. This is not good game design. This is not good writing.
Please, share with me an example of a 'well written' 3e Charm.
Exalted 3rd edition has regressed back to Exalted 1st Edition in terms of mechanical clarity and interaction. Oh I'm sure there are some standout bits that are fine, but-
I have consistently seen sprinkled about, Charms that are all described as being invoked in relation to each other or 'Effects' like themselves. We have regressed back from a useful (if admittedly complex) order of modifiers table, and much the same for Combat and it's flow.
Yeah just... I am baffled. This is not good game design. This is not good writing.
Please, share with me an example of a 'well written' 3e Charm.
Chloe Sullivan
Subdefective
- Location
- 1630 Revello Drive, Sunnydale CA
That's... Not what the last version of Ox Body I've seen does. I don't suppose you can gimme the charmtext?
So what is Anathama and how does it work?Come one, come all to the house of madness!
Come play with Oramus!
(To use, download the relevant files [always get the new .properties file] and drop them in the Anathema\repository\custom folder)
Romantic_Kaiju
Romantic Kaiju
- Location
- National Battlefield
A really really nice Program that has every single canon charm from both 1st and 2ed editions, allows for several different styles of Character generation for almost every splat (1st, 1st power, 2ed, and 2.5).
It's really nice, and all the charms that in the Program have a basic description.
- Location
- The end of all things
It's dice, so it's not nearly as terrifying as it looks, but it'll still hurt a lot. It's intended to annihilate entire battlefields, not defeat single opponents.
No, you only have to use it once, at an average cost of 10i + 4m. HGD trades HL damage for initiative at a 1 for 1 ratio. Incidentally, this makes decisive attacks actively counterproductive unless you have crashed the Solar.
Actually, I think you can also spend a flat 4m to block it. Or does that just make it blockable?
Assuming you're uninjured, you can take 7HL base + 3HL from Ox-Body + up to 5HL from accepting a crippling injury. Legs grow back, right?
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I think the flat 4m version also costs a willpower, right? And that version's only good against uncountable damage so I don't think it applies here (see, it's 25, I counted!).
Also, I always forget about the option to take a crippling injury. Gonna take some time to get used to.l
- Location
- The end of all things
No, there's actually 3 ways to invoke the charm. Here's the one I was talking about:
I'm pretty sure it's just making it so you can parry them, but in this case there's no attack roll. I assume that means you automatically parry it.
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- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
- Location
- Oregon
My face when I saw most of the art:
There still is ripped off art in it too.
I may go through it in the future to snark a lot of the poor decision making in it, some of the white washing, and also hilarious excuses I've seen crop up.
But for now, I can only think to call it "3E, exalts who really need to poop."
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Every time I read Kerisgame I get so curious about all the styles we only see mentioned by name.
Also, I loved the Salina/Keris interaction in this section.
Also, I loved the Salina/Keris interaction in this section.
Giygas
Cutest Sawk i could find. Lucario is a nice extra.
I may not be as experienced as most peoples here, but Salty Dog Method is still easily the best charm. It may have a single free dice trick(And not spending motes for basically a tenth of an excellency, with extra rerolling mechanincs), but it also has three evocative effects:
Really, a simple way to fix this charm mess without cutting anything(Except craft and things like Dogstar Rumination[It still has the wrong name! I suggest that nobody tells the Onyx Path to fix it.]) would be do the same thing that was done to Salty Dog Method to all the other charms. Of course, there would be still all the "Rule Zero charms"(Aka, the ones that tell the GM to deal with it) but we would have a sane amount of them instead of the current ten thousand ones.
The Evocation bloat has been fortunately fixed(They also gave us Waifu Sword!), but it was only a single problem.
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FaeGlade Plural
Semper Legens
- Location
- Land of Bureaucracy
- Pronouns
- Plural/They
They did? *goes check* Um, page 154 still says that you can have Martial Arts (Snake Style) 5 and Martial Arts (Tiger Style) 3. So, um, if there is anything in the book that fixed it, where is it?
Not that it's not really easy to fix via houserules. Not a single charm or mechanic or anything is impacted by simply declaring Martial Arts to be a single ability.
uh, keris doesn't half-ass things when looking for mentors uh?
Sucal
The Devil’s Cut
- Location
- Bottom of the barrel
Oh damn it, I'm mistaken
Could have sworn the leak had the various requirements as Essence 2, Snake 4 for example.
Never mind then, Martial Arts still sucks
That was a pretty interesting session to read.
ganonso
Compulsive Quest Starter
- Location
- PACA France
Question time!
My Infernal players have expressed interest in freeing Oramus from the prison of its wings. Their reasoning being 'nothing desserves that kind of fate'. Problem I have no idea how they could do it.
Soul Surgery? Physically breaking the bindings? Developping new Oramian Charms?
Also what would be the likely reactions to a partial freeing of the Dragon Beyond the World?
My Infernal players have expressed interest in freeing Oramus from the prison of its wings. Their reasoning being 'nothing desserves that kind of fate'. Problem I have no idea how they could do it.
Soul Surgery? Physically breaking the bindings? Developping new Oramian Charms?
Also what would be the likely reactions to a partial freeing of the Dragon Beyond the World?