Giygas
Cutest Sawk i could find. Lucario is a nice extra.
Clearly the solution is to ask her to make so that the complex can be underwater without any problem.
Then, when the Island collapses, you can have a sweet underwater base!
General Exalted Thread
Then, when the Island collapses, you can have a sweet underwater base!
Similar logic also goes into what Charms I tag as Pantheon charms. In essence, Pantheon charms are exemplars of tools that the Yozi uses to interact with the world. If you consider the Yozi-as-Corporation model, you can think of them as board positions. In the most obvious example, Silence in Her Wake says that a fundamental tool Adorjan uses to interact with the world is 'killing everything around her indiscriminately'. Sun Heart Furnace Soul says that a fundamental tool Malfeas uses to interact with the world is 'overwhelming displays of power (by spending lots of motes)'. Counter Pronouncement of Enthymic Law says that a fundamental tool Cecelyne uses to interact with the world is 'passing arbitary laws to serve her goals'. Carmine Mantled Emissary says that a fundamental tool Kimbery uses to interact with the world is 'portraying herself as blameless'. Self-Seed Infestation says that a fundamental tool Metagaos uses is 'turning others into himself'. The soul is the expression of the core method of operations.
Now, of course, the interesting thing is when Infernals express the same techniques through Pantheon souls, their personal themes and the Principle they're based off and how they don't just have Charms from one Yozi means that how the soul expresses that tool can be very different. Take Haneyl, for example. She's fundamentally based off the same Charm as the Shashalme. But the Shashalme expresses itself through the metaphor of fruit - it gives people lovely juicy gifts full of its seeds, which psychically grow inside them and make them its. It's a bountiful, generous garden that enslaves through kindness. Haneyl, by contrast, has picked up thematic links to Malfeas and ties to Keris' greed and desire for material possessions. That means she expresses "turning others into themselves" via the medium of imperialism, cultural and otherwise. She's a little empress who takes other cultures, chews them up, extracts the bits she likes and spits out the rest (also, who constantly invades her siblings' lands). She forces her standards of behaviour on others, and rewards them if they please her and punishes them if they don't live up to her expectations. She certainly doesn't give other people gifts freely because that would be giving away her stuff.
- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
The joke here is that Keris will use Bound by Blood-Red Strings to track down her parents, Love-Born Sweet Fancies to send Sasi love-letters (possibly rather steamy ones), and Seven Nights Shintai to pull Sasi into a dreamworld and let her meet Haneyl in person.
Oh Keris why are you such a horrible student
I guess there's probably going to be a lot of murder involved anyways because keris is keris so it's okay I guess
- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
No murder, I'm afraid. But the other half of Kerisgame is slice-of-life soul comedy, and LBSF is a Pantheon Charm...
This is a thing that happens when you make @EarthScorpion play a major role in something isn't it
Half of it is high-stakes intrigue and empire-building/horse-trading
The other half of it is slice of life comedy
Aaron Peori
Rest in Peace
Doesn't this break the "nobody but you in your devil domain no matter what" rule?
The Charm in question does specifically say that anything that happens to the Infernal is permanent and Haneyl is part of 'the infernal' in question...
Romantic_Kaiju
Romantic Kaiju
- Location
- National Battlefield
Only there in spirit form, not actually there so they can't shank the coadjuter, so ES would allow it.
This isn't the Devil Domain - this is a dreamscape made as if it was a landscape made with (Adorjan) World Shaping Cosmogenesis (the WST-clone rewrite in Revlid's SWLIHN rewrite which moves it out of her tree and into Yozi general Charms).
I might let Aleph spend successes in the dreamscape to make a dream-creature avatar body for Haneyl which is mechanically treated as a First Circle Demon made with (Yozi) World Shaping Cosmogenesis (ie, costs successes equal to her Enlightenment, only has 1CD powers) and thus is basically just a first circle demon hand puppet for her to use. That would just be a dream creature balanced against any other dream creature made that way.
Certainly no "really there" materialisation, no.
Actually, the intent to protect the Coadjutor rating makes me wonder; could someone attempt an assassination by planting a large explosive inside a building they knew you were going to absorb using Blossoms of the Tiger-Empire? Or perhaps planting mental triggers into one of your devas, then banish it back to your soul to carry out its task? Having a ban on "anyone not a part of you" doesn't seem sufficient to stop all means of attack.
NonSequtur
a body
Would any of those methods permit a spirit-killer though?
greensun
You shall all burn beneath my light!!!
Not that I know, an Infernal's soul world is defo another plane of existence so even if they had somekind of charm that allowed them to apply charms to a remote explosive, I very much doubt that they would be able to use them against the Coadjuter.
I think this depends on where the coadjutor is relative to the bomb. It's unlikely, but not impossible for the Coadjutor to be taking a walk, or for the soul-side gate to be near their home.
Bursting Eagerness Soul
Threadwalking Rating Machine
- Location
- Wisconsin
Expanding on this, I would almost directly use the Mass Combat system for water-based combat as well. It is one of the best/most functional systems to come out of 3E, and needs only minimal tweaking.
Here is a look at how I would stat a basic ship for use with the Mass-Combat-based Sail:
Blue-Water Galleon
This workhorse ship is used for hauling goods, people, and novel drinking songs from port to port. It is lightly armed to fend off small coastal raiding parties and aggressive sea life. Its crew has been together for a few seasons and are used to working with each other. These stats represent the capabilities of the average sailor on it, which will be used to extrapolate the stats of the ship as a battle group.
Essence: 1 | Willpower: 5 | Join Battle: 5
Health Levels: -0/-1x2/-2x2/-4/Incap.
Actions: Senses 4, Navigaton 5, Sailing 5, Bargain 3, Read Intentions 3, Gambling 5
Appearance 2, Resolve 2, Guile 1
Combat:
Mounted Crossbow: 6 dice (Damage 15, maximum range: medium)
Chopping Sword: 5 dice (Damage 11, minimum 2)
Combat Movement: 5 dice
Evasion 3, Parry 2 (Parry is inapplicable when the ship is targeted as opposed to the crew)
Soak/Hardness: 8/0 (Lamellar/Wooden Hull)
Non-Combat Speed: Current +1, sail +2, empty cargo hold +1
Crew: Size 2 (maximum 3, minimum 1), Average Drill, Might 0
In this writeup, Hull is subsumed into the Magnitude of the resulting battle group, and Maneuverability is swallowed by Combat Movement. Speed is kept, as it applies more to getting from Place A to Place B than it does combat. In general, I tried to add more hooks to hang effects on. You can have your Dawn or Zenith training the crew to fight better. You can have your Twilight building better weaponry or armor, or sleeking the ship to get better Speed. You can have your Eclipse Captain giving boosts to all of the dice pools by using rally and order actions. Hell, you could even end up with a mutiny if your crew fails a rout check.
I will try my hand at formalizing the system hacks needed to make this work another day, and then work the Sail charms over until they fit the new system, which I'm hoping won't be too hard. Please, let me know what you think so far.
EDIT: Just to note, the resulting battle group would have the following stats different from the above.
Magnitude: 9
Mounted Crossbow: 8 dice (Damage 17, maximum range: medium)
Chopping Sword: 7 dice (Damage 13, minimum 2)
Evasion 4, Parry 3
Soak/Hardness: 10/0
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vicky_molokh
Posthuman spidery thingy.
- Location
- Kyïv, Ukraine
Good enough to replace the 2e MC system? Or is there a problem with edition compatibility?
Sadly, this isn't a question I can give a useful answer to. Given that my storyteller is still in the hospital and thus can't get to a computer right now, (also, he isn't yet a member of this forum) I'll have to rely on our sail expert. @StormofCrows do you have an opinion on this?
This looks pretty good to me, but I don`t have a strong grasp on 3e balance yet.
I never would have thought to use mass combat rules like this, with Sail as a replacement for War. I wonder if something like this could also work for organizations in Bureaucracy.
Very clever. Thank you.
- Location
- Swirling alway swirling
Given my suggestion was going to be "We should just use the mass combat rules for sail"? It solves like 90% of the issues and the sail charms mostly require minimal tweaking. I'd fold maneuverability into size though. At that point the really problematic charms are pretty few and far between.
Giygas
Cutest Sawk i could find. Lucario is a nice extra.
I still need to read the Sail System, but any attempt at making EX3 less "Let's the GM deal with it case for case"-y is welcome in my book.
If you ever need some help, call me.
And now, a question: was Hungarian the language that was warped into some Demon's names? I really want to finally write my two very bizzare demons, but i don't feel like giving them a place holder name(Or i am procastinating. I am definitively procastinating.)
Some demons use Hungarian, but others use Latin - hence "Octavian".
- Location
- Quezon City, Philippines
When I read the Hungarian and Demon, my mind immediately showed Skullface. I've been playing too much MGSV.
Is there some sort of naming convention for Demons that we have to follow or can we make up cool looking and/or sounding names instead?
- Location
- Gladstone, OR
Name: Ten-Dooms Arrow
Artifact 1
Attune: None
Taking the form of a slightly overlarge and overlong arrow, this artifact is a dread, fateful projectile. Crafted from a thin head of Starmetal and ten common calamities that befall warriors and kings, the arrow creates terrifying happenstance.
The wielder commits five motes to the arrow and then launches it at a living target. If the attack hits and deals damage, the arrow vanishes into the target's thread of fate, inflicting no injury. Damage is rolled as normal and health levels are marked off, but any wounds inflicted by this arrow are delusion, and fade at the end of the scene. However, the immediate pain and awful chill the victim feels lingers long in their memory.
For the next ten days, a character so injured falls under two Illusion Effects. The first is Natural Mental Influence, where the artifact communicates an image of the attacker's face or some meaningfully identifying mark to them, and the belief that they are the source of all these perils.
As long as the character is under this belief, she suffers a -1 external penalty on all non-reflexive actions. Resisting this influence costs one willpower, negating the penalty for the scene.
The second Unnatural Illusion, is that of the ten dooms. The victim associates all failed actions or botches over the next ten days with the attacker's image. She believes that conspiracies or efforts to ruin her life jump out at every corner. A perfectly mundane business deal that has fallen through results in a hunt for corruption and subversion. A harmless scratch during sparring is equated with an assassination attempt. Resisting this Unnatural Mental Influence costs 2wp to resist per scene, and allows the character to act rationally.
Each scene in which a character fails a roll while under this Unnatural Illusion Effect counts as a scene of building intimacies of fear and dread towards the attacker as the source of their misery, paranoia, persecution and conspiracies. Botches count as two scenes.
If the arrow misses, it can be recovered and used again. If the victim of the arrow dies before the ten days are up, the arrow flies out of her body along the same trajectory that it entered, and can be retrieved.
Mars has been known to gift special quivers of exactly three of these arrows to chosen petitioners, to help sow conflict and incur longstanding rivalries. These quivers are Artifact 2, and automatically return any of these missed or ejected arrows back to itself at the end of a scene. But when the final arrow is loosed, or if the user would find one of them turned against her, the quiver disappears in a shine of red and silvery motes never to be seen again.
Artifact 1
Attune: None
Taking the form of a slightly overlarge and overlong arrow, this artifact is a dread, fateful projectile. Crafted from a thin head of Starmetal and ten common calamities that befall warriors and kings, the arrow creates terrifying happenstance.
The wielder commits five motes to the arrow and then launches it at a living target. If the attack hits and deals damage, the arrow vanishes into the target's thread of fate, inflicting no injury. Damage is rolled as normal and health levels are marked off, but any wounds inflicted by this arrow are delusion, and fade at the end of the scene. However, the immediate pain and awful chill the victim feels lingers long in their memory.
For the next ten days, a character so injured falls under two Illusion Effects. The first is Natural Mental Influence, where the artifact communicates an image of the attacker's face or some meaningfully identifying mark to them, and the belief that they are the source of all these perils.
As long as the character is under this belief, she suffers a -1 external penalty on all non-reflexive actions. Resisting this influence costs one willpower, negating the penalty for the scene.
The second Unnatural Illusion, is that of the ten dooms. The victim associates all failed actions or botches over the next ten days with the attacker's image. She believes that conspiracies or efforts to ruin her life jump out at every corner. A perfectly mundane business deal that has fallen through results in a hunt for corruption and subversion. A harmless scratch during sparring is equated with an assassination attempt. Resisting this Unnatural Mental Influence costs 2wp to resist per scene, and allows the character to act rationally.
Each scene in which a character fails a roll while under this Unnatural Illusion Effect counts as a scene of building intimacies of fear and dread towards the attacker as the source of their misery, paranoia, persecution and conspiracies. Botches count as two scenes.
If the arrow misses, it can be recovered and used again. If the victim of the arrow dies before the ten days are up, the arrow flies out of her body along the same trajectory that it entered, and can be retrieved.
Mars has been known to gift special quivers of exactly three of these arrows to chosen petitioners, to help sow conflict and incur longstanding rivalries. These quivers are Artifact 2, and automatically return any of these missed or ejected arrows back to itself at the end of a scene. But when the final arrow is loosed, or if the user would find one of them turned against her, the quiver disappears in a shine of red and silvery motes never to be seen again.
Bursting Eagerness Soul
Threadwalking Rating Machine
- Location
- Wisconsin
It's a simple enough system that you could theoretically do it, but it would take a whole lot of back-hacking and balancing.