shepsquared
Erratic Aussie
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
You could be nearly anyone though with a similar set up though:
"So I'm from Gem, I hope nothing bad happened to it..."
"So I'm from Gem, I hope nothing bad happened to it..."
General Exalted Thread
- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Couldn't you get much the same effect from a Past Life flashback a'la Salina's?
- Location
- Spain
Is too snowflakery for my tastes. If you go for this, please don't be a twilight at least. Great Engineer from a more enlightened age is something that has been done to death.
(In the other hand, a Dawn that herself finds in an Era where she can fight in real wars that actually matter and likes it despite herself is more interesting)
(In the other hand, a Dawn that herself finds in an Era where she can fight in real wars that actually matter and likes it despite herself is more interesting)
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vicky_molokh
Posthuman spidery thingy.
- Location
- Kyïv, Ukraine
I've been in a game like that (or almost like that). Notably, challenges we encountered including combat, math (including cryptology, probability, and orbital mechanics, and even collision vector estimates), hacking, talking (and listening!), driving (actually piloting spaceships, though there was a flying car ride if that counts), and building (mostly robo-shells, and modules for our space station). And my character somewhat covered something like 4 of the 6 items there, with different levels of competence. Other PCs did too, with different competences too.
What I noticed is that with a strong incentive to generalize like that, too often you have cases of 'anything past the first point in skills is a waste, raise the most generic attributes instead'. Basically everyone seemed to rush towards raising intelligence (the campaign was very cerebral; usually one would expect dexterity to be competitive for less cerebral campaigns).
One has to be very careful when designing a game/system towards making/encouraging generalist PCs.
Depends on the design and whether they built the propulsion system themselves, or managed to salvage it from another one of the countless sunken ships which litter the ocean floor of Creation (the Imperial Navy pays a huge bounty for information on such things, and also offers official pardons - quite a few pirates have managed to get the Imperial Navy off their back with information on a Shogunate ship beached on some island).
But the most common designs are either fueled by air essence and generate a constant and controllable wind for the titanic sails masted on jadesteel masts, or are fuelled by water essence and shape the ocean to generate a current to carry the vessel along with them. The air essence ones are considered more useful because with some tweaks to the wind-makers, you can generate a constant wind to carry a fleet along with the flagship - but of course, they're harder to refuel in the West because the Imperial Navy controls more water-manses which generates the water-essence fuel to refuel the vessels and which basically work as coal points. As a result, the air-essence fuelled ships are the fleet flagships, while the flagships of the line tend to be water-fuelled.
And yes. That means that if you're running a pirate campaign in the West, it may be very tempting indeed for you to hit an Imperial Navy supply depot and make off with their stocks of mid-grade fuel which will go for several talents of jade on the trading markets, or which can be used to run most smaller things that require essence fuel for years on end and which might last one of those ships a month. And also get the wrath of the Imperial Navy after you.
FaeGlade Plural
Semper Legens
- Location
- Land of Bureaucracy
- Pronouns
- Plural/They
Agreed on the "no Twilight" thing.
For real hillarity, make the character as close to a "normal middle-class person" as possible. Embrace the fact that the character experienced what is basically all comforts of modern life and only ever lived in a modern society.
Now, such a character would normally not get an Exaltation - but then again, there are plenty of real-life middle-class people who "seek adventure", and during one the character happened to earn a Solar Exaltation.
Now there's two roads you can go down:
- The character experienced the corruption of the First Age exalts first-hand after exaltation.
- The character remained naive about it before being suspended in time.
Well, let's stick as close as possible to the Fallout inspiration.
The character was a clerk who one day managed to expose some corruption without specifically looking for it. That corruption was swiftly dealt with, but earned the character an Eclipse exaltation (possibly by virtue of bypassing some obstacles). That elevated the character into the highest echelons of society, but they basically had no clue about those and were played like a fiddle by their fellow Exalts. One such play involved the experiment that froze them in time.
Five-thousand years later they wake up, with absolutely no clue what happened. They're a well-trained Exalt (experienced Solar, Essence 2 in 3E) - with the only combat experience being some sparring, the only bureaucratic experience being from massive organizations, travel-experience being "use a magical train or airship, or go hiking with my lunar mate" and all notions about society being five-thousand years out of date.
And then they go out intothe wasteland Creation and change the world (at least their local part of it).
For real hillarity, make the character as close to a "normal middle-class person" as possible. Embrace the fact that the character experienced what is basically all comforts of modern life and only ever lived in a modern society.
Now, such a character would normally not get an Exaltation - but then again, there are plenty of real-life middle-class people who "seek adventure", and during one the character happened to earn a Solar Exaltation.
Now there's two roads you can go down:
- The character experienced the corruption of the First Age exalts first-hand after exaltation.
- The character remained naive about it before being suspended in time.
Well, let's stick as close as possible to the Fallout inspiration.
The character was a clerk who one day managed to expose some corruption without specifically looking for it. That corruption was swiftly dealt with, but earned the character an Eclipse exaltation (possibly by virtue of bypassing some obstacles). That elevated the character into the highest echelons of society, but they basically had no clue about those and were played like a fiddle by their fellow Exalts. One such play involved the experiment that froze them in time.
Five-thousand years later they wake up, with absolutely no clue what happened. They're a well-trained Exalt (experienced Solar, Essence 2 in 3E) - with the only combat experience being some sparring, the only bureaucratic experience being from massive organizations, travel-experience being "use a magical train or airship, or go hiking with my lunar mate" and all notions about society being five-thousand years out of date.
And then they go out into
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For example, they manage to redecorate a small area of it red with the contents of their body after they get hit with a grand goremaul.
(brotherhood of jade op, ai spawn-camps new players, kills them with vastly unequal forces before they can level up. wtf op nef plz.)
- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
nah mang
Clearly this naive young inexperienced innocent from a bygone era runs into a tough, skilled, powerful Dawn from the Age of Sorrows who takes them under their wing.
Said Dawn's personality should be selected for maximum hilarity. I suggest Cohen the Barbarian.
Clearly this naive young inexperienced innocent from a bygone era runs into a tough, skilled, powerful Dawn from the Age of Sorrows who takes them under their wing.
Said Dawn's personality should be selected for maximum hilarity. I suggest Cohen the Barbarian.
greensun
You shall all burn beneath my light!!!
Nah, it needs to be a Slayer, who has to have a red twin tails and tsun-rating of 9 at the minimum.
And of course the Eclipse must be a blue-eyed young man from the East, who is quite and retreating, but has a steel underneath it all...
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HoratioVonBecker
Imperfectly Aligned
Mine was (ostensibly) to make one masterstat, and give characters Traits to modify it. What I ended up doing was roleplaying everything, because I simply didn't have the experience to stat it out, but I think it was a good idea anyway.
This helped me codify another goal for my (very nascent) roleplaying system. Thanks.
Fun, obviously. If it's not fun for you guys, please tell me. I can take it elsewhere.
Ah, differences in understanding of Charms, then. I was under the impression that they could be construed as general superpowers, such as "the ability to throw lightning bolts", "the ability to punch really hard" or "the ability to gain temporary competence in a skill". (Which, with the Exalted of [temporary constellation] idea, could allow really cool combos, like teleporting with a lighting aura.)
Reference?
Asuka and Shinji from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
HoratioVonBecker
Imperfectly Aligned
Oops, had these in multi-quote instead of Reply.
Oh. I think the two times I gave them i did it because they looked cool, and were a new option to rate something. Maybe we should petition the mods for a rename.
Thanks, I hadn't known that. Can they do it simultaneously, for free?
Can't be. For one thing, Asuka's blond.
- Location
- Spain
HoratioVonBecker
Imperfectly Aligned
I must be misremembering. Shinjii, on the other hand...
- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
A leluq? Hmm. Gritty skin, almost sandpaper like, and perhaps a strange inner glow to the eyes. And, yes, crystalline teeth and nails. Also occasionally an expression of one beset by a deep headache brought about by their Coadjutor sulking for a week after losing a game of Gateway against them.
Noctum
Dual Paradox
- Location
- Under the Skies Above
Thanks. Another one that came to me a second ago was that their irises either have a pattern in them like cut gem facets, or the edges look like the edges of jewel facets.A leluq? Hmm. Gritty skin, almost sandpaper like, and perhaps a strange inner glow to the eyes. And, yes, crystalline teeth and nails. Also occasionally an expression of one beset by a deep headache brought about by their Coadjutor sulking for a week after losing a game of Gateway against them.
Completely unrelated, I imagine that this is what the memetic Ebon Dragon was singing when he announced the Reclamation.
samdamandias
Apprentice Plane Wizard
Except charms usually aren't that broad. You can probably get four or five charms out of "throw lightning", there are multiple charm trees dedicated to "punch hard", and for Ability-based exalts (i.e. not Lunars or Infernals) there are five charms per ability based on the idea of superhuman competency: First Excellency, Second Excellency, Third Excellency, and then splat-specific stuff such as Infinite (Ability) Mastery or the Sidereal charms that messes with target numbers.
Swap out any of their charms except for permanent charms like the Weaving Engines and the Perfected Lotus Matrix? Yes. For free? No.
Literally the first rule of surviving combat for Exalts is don't run out of motes. Paranoia combat, as @Jon Chung can testify, is based around loosing as few motes as possible while trying to maximize the amount of motes your opponents have to spend.
If you run out of motes, you cannot meaningfully attack. If you run out of motes, you cannot present a sufficient defense. If you run out of motes, you can't even run away.
This is why I like ES' and Aleph's anima hack; motes are plentiful for all sides, so the goal is to use clever charm combinations and proper strategy to land a good hit, rather than turtle up and wait.
Is that really a result of the anima hack? The point of a P combo is that it runs lean and defends from everything. Strategy isn't exactly going to get around one.
I figured if running out of motes wasn't going to happen, then people would be more willing to spend them on actual fighting.
I guess crunch development isn't my thing.