General Exalted Discussion XVII: Edition of Cascading Years

[Morty]

This title comes across as unnecessarily spiteful, particularly since we've finally received some concrete material for the first non-Solar splat. It would have been more appropriate a few months ago.

As far as crafting goes, its goal seems to be to make crafters play like crafters - that is, spend their on-screen time crafting, instead of just rolling a lot of dice whenever they need a shiny magic thing. How it works in practice I can't say.

I remember playing in a high-"level" Dark Heresy game, where our former Skitarius (promoted to Tech-Priest, which shouldn't happen) invested a lot into crafting. After spending the whole adventure being a combat monster and lore/tech specialist, he got access to the right schematics, and casually made a master-quality power sword and bolter pistol, to appease someone we'd pissed off. Then he did it again, easily, to earn us the pile of money we needed to travel off-world. I don't think this is quite the ideal situation.