History Quotes / Exalted

"I am not trapped while yet I run", said she.''

"How can you trust me", he asked, "with such horror behind you?"\\
"Love endures", she said.''

"Is to own it", she said.''

->''"We'll start with the basics. Of course, since you're Exalted, the level is raised a little. Now punch that river in half."''
-->-- '''[[Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation Ten Winds]]''' discusses Exalted martial arts

-> ''Currently, it is like [[ForgottenRealms FR]], except Elminster actively works to kill you.''

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...who lived in a tomb, and the tomb was made in her image.\\

And sometimes, woke, and walked within the confines of her tomb.\\

"I am not trapped while yet I run," said she.''

...who fled a shadow, in the company of a friend.\\

"How can you trust me," he asked, "with such horror behind you?"\\
"Love endures," she said.''

...and before her came all the peoples of Creation, and knelt.\\

"Is to own it," she said.''

...who was the living embodiment of everything right in the world.\\

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-> ''Exalted is in many ways like TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu. Both can be set in a largely negative world and both contain [[EldritchAbomination mind-numbing horrors whose gentlest sneeze could kill half of Malaysia.]] The difference is the scope of fear; humans fear Cthulhu, ''Cthulhu fears the Exalted.''''

-> ''Exalted is in many ways like TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu. Both can be set in a largely negative world and both contain [[EldritchAbomination mind-numbing horrors whose gentlest sneeze could kill half of Malaysia.]] The difference is the scope of fear; humans fear Cthulhu, Cthulhu fears the Exalted.''

-> ''Most [[TableTopGames RPG]]s JumpTheShark. {{Exalted}} skis on a giant sword over lava from an erupting volcano, being pulled with quicksilver cables by an [[CoolAirship airship]], and then does a quad somersault 1080 with a pike over a tank filled with evil robot [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks super sharks]] with [[FrickinLaserBeams laser beam eyes]] made from an alloy created from the souls of DEAD GODS.''

"I'm going to die tommorrow," she said. And no one heard.\\
Into the silence, she said; "There's always an ending, after all."

--> - [Mengtzu]

..> - [Mengtzu]

->''I wanted to climb those mountains nobody ever had the guts to climb before, I wanted to stat what they said couldn't or shouldn't be statted. And we did. And looking back, I don't think it improved the game. [...] I looked up one day and the game was all about [...] Yozis and Solars hip-tossing people across the universe and characters hijacking the sun and flying it into the Ebon Dragon's face and it was like--this is not the game I fell in love with back at Scavenger Sons, what happened here? Where's the Realm? Where's [[Anime/NinjaScroll Jubei fighting the Eight Devils of Kimon?]] Where's the [[RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms Brotherhood of the Peach Orchard]] swearing to reform a corrupt and crumbling empire? Where's [[Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian Conan carving his legend into the kingdoms of men]] in fire and blood? Where's [[TanithLee Azhrarn, Prince of Demons,]] falling in love with a mortal man and taking vengeance when his heart is broken? [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone When did everything become so noisy and gonzo and clumsy]]?''

-->'''[[KeychainOfCreation Ten Winds]]''' discusses Exalted martial arts

->''I wanted to climb those mountains nobody ever had the guts to climb before, I wanted to stat what they said couldn't or shouldn't be statted. And we did. And looking back, I don't think it improved the game. [...] I looked up one day and the game was all about [...] Yozis and Solars hip-tossing people across the universe and characters hijacking the sun and flying it into the Ebon Dragon's face and it was like--this is not the game I fell in love with back at Scavenger Sons, what happened here? Where's the Realm? Where's [[NinjaScroll Jubei fighting the Eight Devils of Kimon?]] Where's the [[RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms Brotherhood of the Peach Orchard]] swearing to reform a corrupt and crumbling empire? Where's [[Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian Conan carving his legend into the kingdoms of men]] in fire and blood? Where's [[TanithLee Azhrarn, Prince of Demons,]] falling in love with a mortal man and taking vengeance when his heart is broken? [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone When did everything become so noisy and gonzo and clumsy]]?''

->''Well, I guess now that the baby's dead, it would just be wasteful...''
--> - Dealing with a First Age Lunar's insane rules

-->Dealing with a First Age Lunar's insane rules

->''I wanted to climb those mountains nobody ever had the guts to climb before, I wanted to stat what they said couldn't or shouldn't be statted. And we did. And looking back, I don't think it improved the game. [....]I looked up one day and the game was all about[...]Yozis and Solars hip-tossing people across the universe and characters hijacking the sun and flying it into the Ebon Dragon's face and it was like--this is not the game I fell in love with back at Scavenger Sons, what happened here? Where's the Realm? Where's [[NinjaScroll Jubei fighting the Eight Devils of Kimon?]] Where's the [[RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms Brotherhood of the Peach Orchard]] swearing to reform a corrupt and crumbling empire? Where's [[Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian Conan carving his legend into the kingdoms of men]] in fire and blood? Where's [[TanithLee Azhrarn, Prince of Demons,]] falling in love with a mortal man and taking vengeance when his heart is broken? [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone When did everything become so noisy and gonzo and clumsy]]?''

-> 1.If one of my players or my [=NPCs=] says he will take over the world, I will not have M. Bison spawn into existence just to say "Of course!"

-> ''Trying to portray societal consequences of being an disfavored minority in realistic manner is kind of difficult to do in Exalted. After all the default assumption is that the populace finding out that you are, as far as they are concerned, a horrific demon who will eat their children is considered to be a worst a minor problem until the Shaolin death squads show up.''

->''I wanted to climb those mountains nobody ever had the guts to climb before, I wanted to stat what they said couldn't or shouldn't be statted. And we did. And looking back, I don't think it improved the game. [....]I looked up one day and the game was all about[...]Yozis and Solars hip-tossing people across the universe and characters hijacking the sun and flying it into the Ebon Dragon's face and it was like--this is not the game I fell in love with back at Scavenger Sons, what happened here? Where's the Realm? Where's [[NinjaScroll Jubei fighting the Eight Devils of Kimon?]] Where's the [[RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms Brotherhood of the Peach Orchard]] swearing to reform a corrupt and crumbling empire? Where's Conan carving his legend into the kingdoms of men in fire and blood? Where's [[TanithLee Azhrarn, Prince of Demons,]] falling in love with a mortal man and taking vengeance when his heart is broken? [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone When did everything become so noisy and gonzo and clumsy]]?''
--> - [[WordOfGod Holden Shearer]], writer for second edition and co-developer for third.

->"In Exalted, if it can't be solved with murder, you aren't murdering it hard enough."