Exalted!

Need more sleep? I know I do.

Quite possibly. Last week before finals, wheee.

So, I am having trouble sourcing a weapon, which I am pretty sure I didn't imagine or make up.

Death Comes Twice: it's a deadly evil Yo Yo, wielded by Shoat of Mire? It's not in the Abysaal book as near as I can tell, and I don't know where else to look.

Ok, I have read a little bit of the Scavanger lands, the terreristal direction:west and Other I have this...issue: its just me or this setting like to bounce between high fantasy and low at times?.

Because Im reading about Lookshy,Nexus, The elemental pole of Wood and....I dont know, I have a hard time thinkg why this gods like exalted should be doing there, sometimes I feel like could have more fun adapting this to a D&D.

Granted Im not much of "in this game you have all the agency of the world" kind of deal so its maybe me playing around.

Also I enjoy Lookshy a lot, its seen a farly intersting place to be and that dosent happen a lot in role-games.

the "Any flavor of campaign is possible in creation" is kind of a lot of exalted's Schtick. Right after "Mortals are so unimportant our in-book lore barely mentions they exist"

The setting is low fantasy for 99% of the population. Exalts are personally high fantasy, they have high fantasy locations to go to, as well as capability to transform low fantasy locations into high fantasy.

Considering how Exlted are the 1% and them star mudering each other, and yep again the more I read about Scavanger lands, the East, Bull house country is feel like more likey to play a mortal chararter and that it.

I read two aventured Now, Daughter of Nexus and Hunting a monster, the first is fun and I think it allow to see Nexus a little bit(the part when you go into Fair folk domain is creeeepy) and I admit that the idea of three diferent faction looking for her.

Hunting a monster is intersting, see the tracking of the anathema, it feel like Shadowrun+D&D and I should end with a bittesweet ending.

...Wow, I wasn't thinking straight. I was thinking of making a Blind Seer/Blind Weaponmaster combo sort of character as a Sidereal, and either I'm not looking hard enough, or there aren't ways for Sidereals to counter/lessen Blindness penalties like Solars, Lunars, and Terrestrials can. Is there any way to salvage this idea, or am I better off making a different character?

It's the eleventh hour and I can't find a good stand in for Yu Shan, in terms of pictures.

I've tried all kinds of things, but goggling 'Cloud City' gets me a lot of Star Wars results and googling 'Heaven City' means a lot of gold, Rainbows, and pictures of Jesus.

I can't find anything that's....Medieval Japan, enough.

I'm not actually sure what Yu Shan is supposed to look like, but you might try Googling "city in the clouds" or "sky city" or "city in the sky" for better results.

From the book it's seems like it's supposed to be somewhere from Imperial Japan to Mount Olympus.

I've got a straight-up picture of Yu Shan here.◊

True but

A) That is day, what if Luna or one of the Maiden's lead The Games of Divinity (and thus it is night in Yu Shan)?

B) It has Arianna and Swan in it, which can be immersion breaking.

C) The weird purple borders can also be immersion breaker

D) It's only the entrance....I need access to things that resemble the Jade Pleasure Dome, the Various Beures, and some of the residential areas where baby Sids have to be roommates with the God of Bad Smells, etc.

If you're looking for something that specific, rather than just a general "this is more-or-less what it looks like", you're probably out of luck.

Well, when you do a Roll20 campaign Picture Slides are very important to setting the scene.

And I may have found a few pictures that might suffice at any rate.

Photoshop might help, iffen you or someone you had access to could use it.

So over on Onyx Path, I made this discussion, "What Breaks If: Removing Castes", if you were to give each splat equal access to all their powers.

That aside, I then decided I had too much time on my hands and made this series of splat marks, here.

Prototype here.

2e influences abound.

Ok, i have playing a little game of mind that is call "guess their exalt" where I said a chararter from fiction and the rest guess what type of exalted would be, for example:Dr manhattan, did you imagine him a solar or sideral?

Neither: I think he's an Infernal. He spends most of the comic with a very She Who Lives In Her Name sense of near-emotionless detachment, and has powers that directly warp reality in obvious and spectacular ways (as opposed to a Solar's transhuman application of human ability or a Sidereal's bag of tricks that change the world in ways everyone instantly forgets).

I see....now what about Arthas and Nagash? Both are abysmal or deathlords?

Nagash would be a Deathlord, Arthas a "fallen Solar" Abyssal rather than one from Exaltation.

At least tell me I'm pretty.

I mean, my splat marks.

Not a fan of (what I assume is) the DB one, with the three unrelated fiddly bits coming off it, but I recognize that it's not easy to mash together the five elements in one place and make it look good. Maybe have five little things instead of one big thing? Like, a flame, a tree, a water drop, a mountain, a breeze all arranged in a circle. Something like that. And if I'm really being picky, I think having that little dot in the middle of both the star and the sun makes them look to similar. (Ignoring the fact that the sun is a star, because this is Exalted and the sun is Four-Armed Golden Lucifer.) But other than that, .

Let see:

Eldrad? he look like the typical sideral, moving fate to suit him.

let see....Anag and korra? meh that is too easy, one is inmaculate monk and the other is water based dragon.

Any chararter that would fit a alchemical exalted?

The far left one is the Sidereal splat mark.

Edit: It's Sidereal, Infernal, Abyssal, Solar, Lunar

edited 27th Feb '16 7:26:44 PM by God_of_Awesome