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Unending Wellspring of Questions Style
Incredibly minor nitpick (I live for them), but generally, all Sidereal Martial Arts go [Color] [Noun] of [Noun]. There are a couple of exceptions (Borders of Kaleidoscopic Logic, Scarlet-Patterned Battlefield), but even they just switch the order around a bit.
I just generally like that because it provides an instant thematic and visual association for the Charms and users of that style. Even if it does paint Sidereal Martial Arts as being the Kool-Aid of Exalted.
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Fortunately, the practitioners of the style may, with study, learn to use any weapon with it: Only weapons in which the practitioner has at least a 1 dot lore specialty may be used with the style, as the Martial Artist channels the questions about their equipment their study has opened up to them.
Unless you specifically design the entire style around this single paragraph, this is a bad idea. Styles need to be balanced around what weapons they have access to. It also provides a nearly mandatory incentive to use one of your very limited specialties in something you probably don't want a specialty in, which is badwrongunfun.
It's not a horrible idea from a thematic standpoint, but ultimately, just "no weapons and armor" is a lot simpler. Either that, or figure out what weapons make thematic sense for the style.
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Sutra: This Martial Art does not gain the usual cost reduction from sidereal prayer strips, those magical bands instead granting a bonus to those charms with the Sutra keyword.
This confused the hell out of me until I realized you were just using Revlid's sutra system (although he might use that wording too, I can't remember).
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Arrogant Assertion of Knowledge
Alright. First Charm.
*cracks knuckles*
Alright, first, the minimums here and on most of the Charms afterwards are kind of bizarre. SMAs pre-elder Essence generally require 5 dots of MA, with very few exceptions. Two months of karate don't cut it. :smalltongue:
Second: Bluntly, this feels both a little bland and a little overpowered. You have a good opening in this Charm, but then the crunch is just "I find out his numbers", which is pretty boring. It's overpowered because while it's boring, "I find out his numbers" with no restrictions is extraordinarily useful.
Thirdly, this is tied exclusively to Join Battle rolls, which means your scholar has to start a fistfight if he wants to learn something about someone.
Compare Into Infinite Depths from Sapphire Veils of Passion for a similar Charm.
Suggestion: I would decouple it from Join Battle and make the info-gaining more rough. Possibly you just know if the target's rating is equal, lesser, or greater than your rating in the trait. Or you could do a sliding scale, with a narrative descriptor (a 0 is "unskilled", a 1-2 is "some knowledge", a 3-4 is "great knowledge", a 5 is "mastery", and a 6+ is "superhuman", or whatever).
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Revealing Untrue Truths
I agree with Tavar's analysis of this. This is either useless or overpowered, with pretty much no middle ground. I'd just scrap this, honestly. Turn delaying effects are a very thorny can of worms.
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Disregarding Frivolous Distractions(reword for clarity)
Noooooooooooooo.
This isn't Maiden-and-Gambler Stance, but "I ignore everything" is not an effect that has a place in Exalted. Passive perfects are a really bad place to go. Even without the legalistic loopholes that the task-naming leaves open, I would just scrap it.
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Mental Blow Method
This... probably has some balance problems, but my main problem with it is that it honestly strikes me as rather bland.
Overall, one thing this style could use is a dose of WTF-ness added to it. Take a look at the canonical Sidereal styles (even the mechanically broken ones have some wonderful ideas in them). They do some truly weird stuff.
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Inner Wealth Revealed
Mmm. This is kind of okay, although I will admit to being inherently biased against instant Artifact creation Charms. I also have my previously mentioned problems with the base weapon system in this style. The limits prevent this from being too broken (although those go away).
My main problem with this is that an ax-wielder is pulling Death at the Root out of his ass, not a true reflection of his inner self and the questions he asks (still pulling it out of his ass, though). It's also coupled to combat, again. While SMAs need to have some basis in the combat system (being martial arts and all), they can afford to stray much farther afield.
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Unending Wellspring of Questions Form
This Charm needs the Emotion keyword or something similar (some way to defend against it's effects). Otherwise, looks fine to me. It's powerful, but then SMA forms are supposed to be. The final effect probably needs wording to the effect of "this is reflexive", though.
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Overall, I like the basic ideas you've got going on here. Has a few balance problems and could use some weirdness added, but keep moving forward! I'll go over the rest of the Charms whenever you post them up (and these again, if you redo them).
Oh, and I like the sutra.
Incidentally, if you could reduce the theme/message of this style to four or five words, what would it be? Most of the SMAs tend to have pretty strong messages that come across, about the true nature of the universe. "Love is enslavement", "identity is illusion", and so on. I find it a good place to start from when you look at an SMA. Just curious.