General Exalted Discussion XII: One More and Get a Free Deathlord

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A storyteller's companion is not necessarily a stop-gap. Including rules for how to give a character the appropriate flavor and danger level without having to build every opponent from the ground up is a very useful thing if your solars intend to fight their way through literal armies of dragon bloods or demons over the course of a few sessions.

That said, having a "If you want to use these as antagonists, start with X, add a bit of Y, and fill out with Z" section in each and every splat would go a long way toward making the system less storyteller hating.

Do you have the ST companion? I do, and I can say that the use you can get out of it is marginal, as the powers they attribute to the different types of Exalted? Hilariously bad, in terms of applicability to the system.

it doesn't. Exalted is a game where seven different Exalts built using the WoD splat method are interacting with a singular cohesive world, which causes a lot of problems. Exalted aims for mind-blowing quality in setting description and player options, not efficiency, intuition or sense.

Look at any setting or series that involves multiple books. They are all doing the same thing as Exalted, and for similar reasons(money is part of the equation, as well as timing, logistics, etc).