Exalted Discussion - Television Tropes & Idioms

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Peteman: I'm confused... are you guys saying the game is no longer as good as it used to, but at it's height it was the most awesome thing ever?

Pteryx: No, they're describing the backstory.

Peteman: Then why are they bringing up Jumping The Shark? It's a completely unrelated trope.

Moonsword: It's possible they're referring to a few of the more... interesting... additions to Exalted. The main one is the Autocthonians and the Alchemical Exalted (these are the ones described as being robots raiding for materials to feed their dying god, the Primordial Autocthon, which they live inside of), although I've heard a few pointed references to certain other splats or setting tidbits. It's also possible that someone's getting at the move to Second Edition. Generally, though, the ire tends to focus more on specific books than it does a perception that the series has jumped the shark.

Pteryx: *scrolls down* ...Oh, that? I think that's an attempt to make a TV Tropes-flavored version of the game's tendency to invoke Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot to crazy, fun effect. It probably doesn't belong there in that form, no.

Peteman: Who agrees that the Jump The Shark thing should be removed? If the game hasn't declined in quality, then it hasn't jumped the shark.

Mike: I moved "Dragon-Blooded Exaltation is inherited" from Lamarck Was Right to Superpowerful Genetics, as children aren't necessarily as powerful as their parents. I kept Lamarck Was Right in the article, though, because I think that the Breeding background is close enough.

Aquillion: I'm not sure Lamarck Was Right belongs at all, though. The Dragon-Blooded once always inherited exaltation, but when they cross-bred with mortals, some of them stopped. Now, the more 'pure' your bloodline is, the more likely you are to exalt, and the more powerful you're likely to be if you do (though the deity of, appropriately, inherited power has some say in this too). Aside from the divine interference and their initial creation (when they were specifically created to breed true), that's closer to Darwin Was Right rather than Lamarck Was Right — the Dragon-Blooded inherit their powers genetically based on their bloodline, not because their parents were influenced by super-powered rocks.

Servitor_2152: Removed the following comments, because we know who Desus eventually reincarnated as. He's Swan.

Of course there is nothing stopping Desus ghost BEING a Deathlord there being a REALLY complete monster.
It is entirely likely that the Silver Prince of Skullstone is Desus' ghost as a Deathlord, given suspicious similarities in their stats. And his policy of encouraging his mortal subjects to deliberately sacrifice their lives to become ghosts, under the impression that they will ascend to superior positions in his empire of the undead when their actual fate is to be forged into soulsteel and made into techno-necromantic war machines stockpiled for the eventual destruction of the world, is sufficiently sadistic enough to qualify.

Darth Fanboy: Except that the two are not mutually exclusive. The (higher) soul can be snagged by the Neverborn and turned into a Deathloird whilst the Exaltation Shard gets shoved in a box and eventually pops out as another Solar. And the lower soul can still be haunting the tomb (in theory, though it would be unlikely after this long). I would suggest putting themk back in.

Servitor_2152: Point taken. However, I do request that whomever puts it back makes it more of a summary than the previous thread-mode multipost.

TA: "There's one particular Exalted martial arts combo that would allow you to kung fu the entire population of the Blessed Isle in the face. Simultaneously. And the Blessed Isle is larger than continental Asia." Details, please.

Mark Z: Use Infinite Melee Mastery to reduce the cost of Second Melee Excellency to zero, conjure your Glorious Solar Saber (which has infinite attack rate), and flurry for eleventy billion attacks, using Second Excellency to give yourself an automatic success on each one. The multiple-action penalty reduces your dice pool to negative something huge, so you don't even roll the dice, but you do get the free successes. If you like, combine this with Violently Advancing Theories (the GSS isn't a style-appropriate weapon but there's a charm that gets around that) and you can move on every attack of the flurry.

This is technically lightsabering the entire population of the Blessed Isle in the face, so the earlier comment might have been referring to some other infinite kung fu spam combo. If so, that just shows how preposterously awesome the game is.

Jefepato: What you just described doesn't actually work anymore, Mark — the "infinite-rate flurry with zero dice and automatic successes" trick was stealth-errata'd in the Infernals book. I think Grandmother Spider Mastery is what we're talking about. Combine that with some means of seeing a long distance and you can punch them all twice with one blow.

Ack Sed: Sorry,but what does "Welcome to Creation,here's your shovel." mean?

Gattsuru: Two possible meanings come to mind, both fairly apt. A non-trivial amount of Creation involves shit needing to be shoveled, and it's present from pretty much character creation. Another, perhaps more common usage, is that of being in a deep grave and being given a tool to keep digging.

Exploding Frogs: Actually, I'm pretty sure it's an extension of the Wide Open Sandbox metaphor. Maybe someone should Pothole the phrase, just to be clear?

Janitor:I Am Not Making This Up is gone for good as link target. Please enter your astounding facts under a different heading. Also , the Trivia/ Exalted link may be useful to you.

Removed the reference to Deathlords knowing Sidereal MA. Scroll of the Monk made it clear that nobody currently in existence aside from the Sidereals knows Sidereal MA. Even if some of them knew Siddy MA in life ( which is not at all guaranteed ), they lost it when they died.

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