And into darkness... - An Exalted 2ed RP

This is Exalted! What is this "too much" you speak of?!

Ok, I think he's pretty much done.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B174nwmuEOsESjF1WXVxT2NSM2c/edit?usp=sharing

Looks good to me your in

Please do update the post so people who are looking at the thread do know that the char s complete and stuff

edited 24th Jan '14 6:04:37 AM by Gladonost

Righto.

By unified crafting, I assume he means the system that I pitched for our Exalted game, Three, where instead of a cluster of anywhere from 5-10 separate skills, all of which cost as much as (more useful) "normal" skills, there's a single "Craft: General" skill, and then (sometiems) specialties to represent proficiency/area of focus.

I personally prefer this method, as the standard game method tends to lead to either a crafting character who doesn't actually craft much, or a crafting character who is literally incapable of doing anything other than crafting, which excludes them from basically the whole game, as crafting happens during "downtime."

(I will note that in either system, Crafting needs a certain degree of player/GM communication to keep balanced. As long as no one's trying to exploit the system/both parties are clear on what's allowed, and what's desired, it should be fine.)

On crafting:
By the book, the Craft Ability is split into a bunch of separate abilities pertaining to each area. So your Righteous Devil does not actually have simple Craft 3. She can't just craft anything at 3 dots. She would have Craft (Fire) 3 and only able to craft stuff made primarily in the forge. Carving wood, building a house, cutting gems, brewing an elixir are all beyond her.

So, to get a qualified craftsnerd going, you'd need to buy them all - Craft (Fire), Craft (Earth), Craft (Wood), Craft (Air), Craft (Water)... Oh and Craft (Magitech) of course, for all the really good stuff. And that's without going into Genesis or Necrotech.

That leaves the crafter either really limited in stuff he can craft or unable to do anything else. So, unifying them into one Ability is a common fix - leave just Craft from 1 to 5, giving access to all mundane crafts, with special crafts being accessible after buying a speciality. Commonly it also allows to break the usual cap on amount of specialities.

So you would have Craft 3 (Fire +1), being able to craft generally anything at 3 dots and specifically forge metal at 4. A specialist crafter would have something like Craft 5 (Magitech +3) - crafting anything mundane at 5 and Magitech wonders at 8 and able to also buy, say, Fire +1 in order to boost metal forging and Earth +2 to repair/construct buildings.

Oh you damn ninja, Tentacles.

edited 24th Jan '14 8:25:57 AM by Adannor

After thinking it over, I'm going to say that Adannor's system looks good and I will be implementing it for this game.

edited 24th Jan '14 8:14:29 AM by Gladonost

I think the idea was that in real life all those crafts are separate skills, and knowing how to do one has little to no effect on the others. That doesn't seem very Exalted though, so I can see why you'd change it. At least for Solars.

Actually quick question: Do hearthstones set into artifacts you have stored in Elsewhere work or not?

edited 24th Jan '14 8:29:57 AM by Elfive

Well, IRL fighting with a sword, axe, mace and spear are all different too, but here we got Melee for all.

Yeah, but they're nowhere near as different. Using a spear is a lot closer to a using a sword than blacksmithing is to carpentry.

edited 24th Jan '14 8:32:01 AM by Elfive

Ah, well on the Anathema Charsheet she does use the Craft(Air) which is required for the Bullets :)

The way that works you just need to fill in one of the craft types and treat the filled general bar as counting for all of them.

Still writing the background and working on the manse, but I'm mostly done.

Now I just have to figure out how to get this to accept an external link or format it by hand. Joy.

edited 24th Jan '14 12:10:52 PM by Bharhash

Posting for Bharhash, because of the pesky "new accounts" thing:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11TUNNufB92rugSJFvKmDgi4BIqHTU-k-27eqMZPj0Ug/edit?pli=1

Bharhash accepted

Oh, by the way I decided to keep my dex at 4 just because I want to see what difference it actually makes. My old Infernal had dex 4 too and he did alright, although that may have been mostly due to being nearly incapable of dying.

OK people I'm tired of waiting. Signups are staying open for 24 more hours then they close 7th player or no.

I'm interested in joining if there's room, but I'm kind of new to Exalted. How much of the rulebook should I have memorised?

You don't need to have the rulebook memorized, as I said earlier I'll be handling your dice rolls and systems. You just need to know enough to be able to efficiently play your character, e.g. know what your charms basically do so you know when to use them. And there is currently one spot left in the roster until tomorrow at eight when signups close whether or not that spot is filled.

edited 26th Jan '14 6:56:27 PM by Gladonost

What about setting and lore? Do I need to memorise that?

Not really, the setting will explore itself alot, just know a couple place names you'd like to visit and remember them. If you need it I can send you a map of Creation. And as for lore... just basics should be fine know what types of exalted there are, know who will be friendly most the time and who'll be an enemy, know important events like the disappearance of the Scarlet Empress and other such things.

Also, if you want help with character creation,

http://anathema.github.io/2013/09/13/Version5.1.3.html

Download that. It makes the process pretty fast and easy with the program handling all the calculation and stuff. It also gives you a brief snippet about what the charms do within the charm trees and what source book to go to for the actual info.

Daang, got the crafter role jacked while out for the weekend

Well, here's my character:

• Name: Sabyn Lexis
• Gender: Male
• Appearance: Short and slender 21 year old youth with wild black hair that goes halfway down his neck and bright blue eyes.
• Caste: Night
• Attributes:
  • Strength:2 /Dexterity:5 /Stamina:2
  • Charisma:3 /Manipulation:2 /Appearance:2
  • Perception:3 /Intelligence:3 /Wits:5
• Virtues:
  • Compassion:3
  • Conviction:3
  • Temperance:1
  • Valor:2
• Virtue Flaw: Red Rage of Compassion
• Essence: 3
  • Personal Essence: 17
  • Peripheral Essence: 33
• Willpower: 8
• Charms:
  • Martial Arts (Snake Style)
    • Striking Cobra Technique
    • Serpentine Evasion
    • Snake Form
    • Snake Strikes The Heel
    • Uncoiling Serpent Prana
  • Athletics:
    • Monkey Leap Technique
    • Foe Vaulting Method
  • Dodge:
    • Shadow Over Water
    • Seven Shadow Evasion
    • Reflex Sidestep Technique
  • Melee:
    • One Weapon Two Blows
    • Peony Blossom Attack
    • Call The Blade
    • Iron Raptor Technique
    • Blazing Solar Bolt

• Combos:
  • Tempest Barrage (Foe Vaulting Method + Iron Whirlwind Attack + Blazing Solar Bolt): Sabyn leaps over his opponents, performing a corkscrew frontflip as he unleashes a storm of energy bolts from his blade upon his unsuspecting foes before performing a Three-Point Landing.

• Abilities:
  • Dawn:
    • Archery:
    • @Martial Arts: 5 (Specialty: Multiple Attacks.)
    • @Melee: 5
    • Thrown:
  • Zenith:
    • @Integrity: 2
    • Performance:
    • @Presence: 2
    • Resistance:
    • @Survival: 2 (Specialty: Forest.)
  • Twilight:
    • Craft:
    • Investigation:
    • Lore: 1 (Specialty: Exalted History)
    • Medicine:
    • Occult:
  • Night:
    • Athletics: 5 (Specialty: Clamber.)
    • Awareness: 1
    • Dodge: 5
    • Larceny:
    • Stealth:
  • Eclipse:
    • Bureaucracy:
    • Linguistics:
    • Ride:
    • Sail:
    • Socialize:
• Equipment:
  • Reaper Daiklave (Artifact)
• Intimacies: 11
  • Steve: 2
  • The Natural World: 2
  • The Wrongly Accused: 2
  • The Oppressed: 2
  • His hometown: 2
• Background Info: Young, cocky, energetic and one hell of an eccentric. Sabyn always has a creative solution to any problem. Born in a small forest town, his Solar powers where awakened to him when an attempt to scare of a group of bandits who had been attacking his village turned sour and he was forced to fight them of alone. Awakening the power of the Night to his command. However, his problems where only just beginning as this Exaltion drew the attention of the Wyld Hunt. At first surrendering to the hunt to protect his village, he later escaped from the hunt before he could be excecuted. He spent several years trying to learn about the hunt. Trying to learn why they sought to kill him and it was at this time that he learned of The Great Curse. A terrible disease of the mind that was destined to drive any and all Exalted to madness.

Okay, he thought so I just need to get rid of this curse thing. Should be easy enough.

Along his travels, Sabyn has acquired a pet wolf named "Steve" (4 dot Familiar) and the Reaper Daiklave (2 dot Artifact).

edited 26th Jan '14 11:20:23 PM by Lunacorva

It early and I'm still tired but isn't one of the big Problems that people don't know about the curse? (aside from the ones responsible)

And Lytek (the God of Exaltations) not telling anyone while he tries to fix it?