Quote Originally Posted by The_Snark View Post
He has a point, though: don't worry about it so much, just play the game. Listening to fans discuss (and argue about) the game can be confusing, because it's a complex setting and we like talking about fiddly details. Playing Exalted is a good way to familiarize yourself with it. Sure, you might mess up a few things because you don't have the setting and rules down cold (I certainly did when I started), but so what? It's only a game, and next time you'll know more.
And we complain about it cause we love it. We complain and complain and complain and you're probably like 'Why do you play such a terrible game?'
If it were THAT terrible... well, we'd probably be complaining more, because we wouldn't take breaks to play a wonderful, evocative, kookily mechanics-ed game.