Exalted!

And I am digging the hell right out of this new thing where any ability's charm can be any element.

All the cool stuff is Ess 3.

You don't think making anti-zombie wards or stashing your gear in a random boulder or turning someone's boiling hatred of you into love or terror is cool?

Warding one room against zombies - no. The other two are also on upped essence and thus the D Bs still only have some parlor tricks on ess 1 starting point.

edited 28th Apr '17 12:07:45 AM by Adannor

All right, when the undead are breaking down the doors I'm gonna go find someone with a different sense of cool.

(And fair enough, but "upped essence" still =/= "Ess 3," pedant pedant pedant.)

edited 28th Apr '17 12:31:26 AM by rikalous

This isn't all of them, you know.

Plus next we're getting something about an "aura" mechanic that interacts with these elemental keywords, and who knows what that does...

The answer is me. I know what that does, and so can you.

I apologize for the threadcromancy, but I have questions.

So a minor hobby of mine is trying to discern what characters in other works of fiction might be if translated to Exalted, mainly to help me explain the setting to others.

Link is my go-to example for Solars, for instance.

But I've run into a problem: Sidereals. Try as I might, I can't find really good analogues for them. I have characters that are sorta similar, but nothing that fits as perfectly as Link the Dawn, or Ganondorf the Changing Moon, or Not Important the Dusk. Anybody willing to help out here?

I happen to have a GDoc compiling my Exalt examples, because that's the kind of guy I am.

By the way, I only know second edition. I know nothing about first, and all I know about third is that apparently Virtues have been removed?

edited 7th Nov '17 6:23:46 AM by Voyd211

Lu-Tze from Discworld has been compared to a sidereal before.

Also you should totally pick up 3e I guarantee it's worth it.

I did the same a couple of page before, here is the list:

Warhammer:

Nagash is a deathlord.

Malekith a solar turn infernal.

Settra is a solar in his "mad king" glory, well Count dorku said he can be infernal who serve malfeas.

Eldrad is clearly a sideral.

Warcraft:

Athas is clearly a abyssmal, Idillian is infiernal.

Comis:

Manhattan is and infernal who serve Who She Live In Her Name.

Doom is pretty much a infernal too.

Superman is a Solar of course.

Luthor is grom the Guild.

Any others?

Oh, while this thread is breathing again, we just got a look at one of the (provisionally) finished pages◊, featuring the introductory paragraphs of some moonsilver razor claws and the tail end of the final evocation of what Robert Vance has confirmed is a goremaul.

edited 7th Nov '17 9:45:58 AM by Elfive

Here's my own list.

Heracles is a pretty prototypical solar.

San from Princess Mononoke makes a good lunar.

edited 7th Nov '17 10:07:39 AM by Elfive

All classical mythology heroes should make decent Solars, given that Solars are based on classical mythology heroes.

For Sidereals, I'd go with J and K of the Men in Black. They've been erased from normal human society so thoroughly that the mundanes can't so much as remember their faces and become part of an otherworldly institution full of bizarre nonhumans and dedicated to keeping the world safe from threats most people could barely wrap their head around.

Since you're apparently looped in, does Arms have an ETA yet?

True?: Almost anyone can be a Solar, that's how generic they are.

No. People have asked, but the devs are reluctant to say anything because committing to a date tends to just piss people off if it's wrong.

Seems pretty damn imminent though.

In fact, quoth the man himself:

edited 7th Nov '17 1:59:45 PM by Elfive

I just watched Thor: Ragnarok.

That is Exalted combat.

Oh my god, that is what players and Storytellers should emulate with their descriptions.

I also thought the Doctor Strange movie seemed like a good inspiration for Sidereal combat specifically. Within like five minutes you've got people diving into the mirror to kung-fu each other and I don't know what's more Sid than that.

Fair enough. Presumably it'll be a moot point pretty soon.

I really liked how sidereals in Keychain Of Creation just hopped from frame to frame kicking the shit out of people. Medium Awareness is OP

Oh goodness, Doc Strange is a great example. Lessee if this video I just picked from the name without actually watching it provides...

Arms of the Chosen drops on Wednesday.

IT'S WARSTRIDER TIME, BOYS AND GIRLS.

Arms is out. One of the warstriders is literally Evangellion unit 01. This is amazing.

A question i have been bother me: what is the weirdest thing, you have done in exalted?

I just thought of an example of a Sidereal.

Unfortunately, it happens to be one of my least favorite characters ever.

Reimu Hakurei, from the Touhou Project.

Ugh, Reimu. As much as I hate this character, she nonetheless illustrates the underlying concepts of a Sidereal Exalt. Her job is to maintain the border of Gensokyo, and also to protect the people within from troublesome gods and spirits, which she does, if rather haphazardly. Her powers also seem rather Sidereal-like; her ability to fly away from reality and become incorporeal is very similar to Sidereal Dodge Charms. Add to this her prayer scrolls, and her ability to enforce the Spell Card Rules, and you have someone who’s probably only able to whip Yukari through Sidereal-style machinations.

edited 15th Nov '17 6:23:53 PM by Voyd211

ARGH I have a question but nobody's been here I hate having to double post

Anyway, is Asura a good basis for a Slayer-caste Devil-Tiger? He even seems to be using Infernal Monster Style, since that's all about channeling rage (which Asura has, uh, quite a bit of)