There is a major unintentional mechanical flaw in that you didn't give the attack a roll. That means you have basically made the charm the ability to simply declare everyone present loses 2 levels of health with absolutely no possible way to defend because it bypasses the attacking system. You need to make it a normal area of effect attack instead. Maybe you could take the mechanics of Death of Obsidian Butterflies and add on the wyld mutations and aggravated damage to Raksha.
Green Sun, Black Shadows (CG/Exalted)
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chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Unquestionable Oramus scoffs at the normality of the average combat charm tree. His Insane grandeur allows him to effortlessly ignore the boundaries of balanced gameplay. As such, the first charm on his combat tree is a perfect attack, subject to the imperfection of the Dragon beyond the World.
Oramus is a Yozi. His 3rd Circle souls would be Unquestionables.
chocolote12
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Well yes, but you can't question Oramus either. He's just that good.
But it isn't really a perfect attack. Even those can have perfect defenses applied to them and deal normal damage that doesn't bypass soak. They also often are only unblockable or undodgeable. This charm basically lets you autokill anything with a single flurry bypassing any possible defense.
The imperfection doesn't matter because those only apply to defenses*, and it's basic function requires it work on non-magical things as it effects the environment.
*Although if you want to incorporate the thematics of his flaw into the attack maybe have it deal bonus damage against targets that used a charm to defend against the attack.
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Enviromental defenses say hi.
This is exactly the kind of thing Element-Resisting Prana exists to defend against.
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Except it isn't an environmental effect or using their mechanics.
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Unrolled damage is an enviromental effect by default.
That said, the charm probably works better as an unblockable AoE atack.
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Cool, but completely unbalanced.
Also, perfect defenses would work anyway.
Alexander89
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+5 Xp to you.
Ethan is a dick. But to know Pattern Spider Touch, he is a powerful dick. Luckily for Matthias, if there is a way to reverse the transformation is in Hell.
Incidentally, how does Reinart look like? In any case have 5 Xp. I also thank you for giving me an idea of what the Lunars could do in Indonesia.
Good, but like the others said it needs a dice pool. For that, I would like to propose some examples:
It should be something that has the weirdness of Infernal, like Charisma+Occult for Sandstrike Blast and Willpower+Occult for Mind-Hand Manipulation. Or it can be an environmental hazard.
Those in the shop/charsheet. There is no one who took the time to make a truly detailed one, like Revlid's Isidoros, so I gathered attempts from all over the web and refined them with the help of the players.
This is 100% wrong. Environment effect work according the the poison rules with some alteration, and have to be specifically called out as environmental effects.
From Core in the section on poison and environment effects starting on page 130 but the quote is from pg 131.
The proper way to make it a mechanical effect would be to make it create a action long environmental effect that does 2L damage and has a trauma of (pick a value, probably 3 to be comparable to a bonfire.) This would fit the exalted themes by allowing a defense specifically a (resistance+stamina) roll of a difficulty of 3 which would allow you to reduce it from 2 lethal damage levels to dice and 6 successes reduce the damage to being bashing.
If I was to fiddle with the numbers more for game balance reasons I would shift it to deal (essence+1) lethal damage dice so the lowest essence infernals who can by the charm do the same damage as a bonfire and it gets stronger over time. I would also give it a trauma of (essence) for the same reason a E3 infernal's fire is the same as a bonfire beyond the special effects but it gets increasingly hard to resist as he goes up in essence. Using dice instead of levels is because this allows a exalt with a sufficienty good (stamina+resistance) roll shrug off the effects if they double the trauma on their defense roll. Generally only exalts who deliberately invest in resistance will be able to do so even for a low essence infernal.
When scaled up to E10 this makes a fire attack that kills extras automatically as they lack the dicepool to even have a chance of survival and, even requires exalts to either have sufficient soak to reduce the damage or a fantastically good (stamina+resistance roll)
Just don't say his name out loud too quickly, or it suddenly loses a lot of its impact.
Yeah I figured it was, I just thought it was a cool idea.
Alexander89
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I added the "Fourth Soul" Charms to the Charms Shop. Not all of them because some require Charms from other Yozi, but I left those from Malfeas since some are thinking to unlock that Charmset.
Alexander asked me to post this here:
Somewhat unfinished, I know; I'm leaving a fair amount of the details, such as what demon transported his Exaltation, to Alexander.
No omake, but as a gist, he's one of the people who recognize the way that KFs effortlessly curbstomp everything else, including vehicles that are very specialized and well-suited for their role and thus should have the advantage over KFs in their respective roles (such as tanks in open battle, or - later in the series - fighter jets in the air) as the humongous amount of bullshit and plot armor it is, and basically gets pissed off at it.
So, he's gonna grab his tank - that he crews all by himself through copious use of mind-tentacles - and go murder a bunch of Britannian Knightmare Frames and soldiers with it and generous amounts of green hatefire.
Name: Ernst Lehrmann
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Caste: Slayer
Patron Yozi: She Who Lives In Her Name
Concept: One-man Tank Crew
Motivation: Disprove the battlefield supremacy of Knightmare Frames
Urge: Malfean
Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 4, Stamina 4, Charisma 3, Manipulation 2, Appearance 2, Perception 3, Intelligence 2, Wits 4
Abilities: Archery/Firearms 3 (Vehicle Weapons +1), Martial Arts 1, War 3 (Armored Vehicles +1, Countering KFs +1), Integrity 2, Presence 2, Resistance 3, Lore 2, Occult 3 (Mind-Hand Manipulation +1), Athletics 2, Awareness 3, Dodge 2, Bureaucracy 1 (Military Procurement +1), Linguistics 2 (Native: German, English, French), Ride/Drive 3 (Tanks +2), Socialize 2 (Military +1),
Virtues: Compassion 2, Conviction 2, Temperance 2, Valor 3
Essence: 2
Willpower: 8
Backgrounds:
Resources 2
Contacts (EU Military) 2
Rest probably into Coadjutor or the like.
Intimacies:
His (former) tank (possessiveness/nostalgia), Knightmare Frames (hate), his wife and family (love), his tank crew and unit (camaraderie, regret), Britannian military tactics/hierarchy (disdain)
Charms;
Malfeas:
- By Pain Reforged
- Kneel or Be Knelt
- Insignificant Embers Intuition
- Green Sun Nimbus Flare
SWLIHN:
- Factual Determination Analysis
- Essence-Dissecting Stare
- Mind-Hand Manipulation
- Precision Thought-Force Exercise
Remaining picks into whatever's necessary/appropriate
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Caste: Slayer
Patron Yozi: She Who Lives In Her Name
Concept: One-man Tank Crew
Motivation: Disprove the battlefield supremacy of Knightmare Frames
Urge: Malfean
Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 4, Stamina 4, Charisma 3, Manipulation 2, Appearance 2, Perception 3, Intelligence 2, Wits 4
Abilities: Archery/Firearms 3 (Vehicle Weapons +1), Martial Arts 1, War 3 (Armored Vehicles +1, Countering KFs +1), Integrity 2, Presence 2, Resistance 3, Lore 2, Occult 3 (Mind-Hand Manipulation +1), Athletics 2, Awareness 3, Dodge 2, Bureaucracy 1 (Military Procurement +1), Linguistics 2 (Native: German, English, French), Ride/Drive 3 (Tanks +2), Socialize 2 (Military +1),
Virtues: Compassion 2, Conviction 2, Temperance 2, Valor 3
Essence: 2
Willpower: 8
Backgrounds:
Resources 2
Contacts (EU Military) 2
Rest probably into Coadjutor or the like.
Intimacies:
His (former) tank (possessiveness/nostalgia), Knightmare Frames (hate), his wife and family (love), his tank crew and unit (camaraderie, regret), Britannian military tactics/hierarchy (disdain)
Charms;
Malfeas:
- By Pain Reforged
- Kneel or Be Knelt
- Insignificant Embers Intuition
- Green Sun Nimbus Flare
SWLIHN:
- Factual Determination Analysis
- Essence-Dissecting Stare
- Mind-Hand Manipulation
- Precision Thought-Force Exercise
Remaining picks into whatever's necessary/appropriate
No omake, but as a gist, he's one of the people who recognize the way that KFs effortlessly curbstomp everything else, including vehicles that are very specialized and well-suited for their role and thus should have the advantage over KFs in their respective roles (such as tanks in open battle, or - later in the series - fighter jets in the air) as the humongous amount of bullshit and plot armor it is, and basically gets pissed off at it.
So, he's gonna grab his tank - that he crews all by himself through copious use of mind-tentacles - and go murder a bunch of Britannian Knightmare Frames and soldiers with it and generous amounts of green hatefire.
Ok, how about this?
It may also need a speed value and a Defense penalty while doing it, but I don't understand the mechanics behind that at this time to make it balanced so someone else could figure that part out. Further balancing may also be needed. The name is also something that could be changed.
A possible expansion Charm of this might make it create a temporary environmental hazard that is essentially Pure Chaos and forces everyone caught within to make an (Essence + Willpower) roll every minute to avoid a mutation.
Also, one thing Alex - the time for a mutation to occur for being in a Bordermarch is a month, not a year, at least according to Celestial Directions Vol. 2 pg. 113 - Lelouch can probably just take the hearthstone out of its amulet and then put it back in to reset thing until he gets permanent immunity, if we haven't already gotten it within a month.
Pure Chaos it not an energy attack - it is lack of reality. It does not inflict damages by itself. Coming apart at seams due to lack of anything to keep you real does.
Anyway, Pure Chaos is a fun idea to play with. Mainly due to fact, that if it is pure chaos then all sizes and dimensions within cease to matter.
You can create sphere of pure chaos size of a fist, and then with some luck put your whole arm inside, without it ending out out other side of the sphere (assuming that arm did not change into mini-tentacle, or something simillar). You can create sphere of pure chaos size of a horse, throw someone inside, and with some luck have him try to get out for subjective year, crossing what it feels like thousand miles.
My proposition would be something like that:
Something like that can be useful for very wide array of things, and developed in very large array of ways. It could be used as a weapon - as few have active defence against shaping. As a way to get magical components - Wyld mutates, and created wonders. Quite a few of them can remains after charms is done.
Good follow-up would be a charm that gives some authority over affected area. It's not possible to truly control chaos, but it should be doable to give it a theme to follow.
It can be a weapon. A way to create quasi-sorcerous effects. It can be used to create things. Etc.
More advanced charms could tie small sphere of Pure Chaos to a hand, or to an end of a weapon. With correct theme, it could destroy close to anything.
All that is balanced with the fact, that shaping defence is relatively easy to get... Though is someone with perfect shaping defence enters sphere of Chaos bound to the theme of being bigger-on-inside labyrinth, then shaping defence will not help that person all that much.
Other way to develop it is transportation. You have two spheres of Pure Chaos. Inside the distances, sizes and dimensions have no meaning. It is possible that You can enter one sphere, and exit another, regardless how far they are in Creation. It would require speficic charm probably, but hey, Oramus. It is his domain after all.
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In this case the Pure Chaos is being shaped into prismatic fire (or something like fire in that it burns and inflicts damage - it's not actually Elemental Fire).
Alexander89 has indicated a desire for an Oramus breath attack, so I'm trying to figure out something that would be suitable.
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I made an Excel Sheet/Chart to map out the Oramus Charm Tree, as well as Metagaos, Isodoros, and Revlid's SWLiHN. I still haven't done the others though.
Hmm.
Still trying to figure out an attack charm, which is kind of the reverse of Oramus's imperfection.
Basically, it only hits if they defend against it, or aren't in range.
Still trying to figure out an attack charm, which is kind of the reverse of Oramus's imperfection.
Basically, it only hits if they defend against it, or aren't in range.
ThatGazzer
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Might we have access to said chart?
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I'll upload the Excel file later. I have to get to class.
If you download the Anathema character generator, then grab the custom charm files I typed up, you get the charm cascade. Here's a picture of what the "Beautiful In My Way" tree looks like. I split his charms into two trees for aesthetic reasons.
Charm boxes colored green means the character knows that charm. Why it shows up that way in the cascade view, I don't know.
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My Lore Ability is of an insufficient rank to perform such operations. I just don't get it even with instructions which annoys me to no end. Add in external difficulties imposed by hardware and network, it makes it almost impossible for me to do that.
Gotta improvise and use Low Tech solutions instead.