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2011-06-03, 05:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-03, 05:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-03, 05:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-03, 05:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
Unshaped can't actually enter Creation, though. So any Fair Folk you meet in Creation is open to floor-wiping...
In the Wyld, well, the DB is at a bit of a disadvantage, but in the Wyld his Holy charms work on them (shaped Raksha are not Creatures of Darkness).
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2011-06-03, 05:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
Also whether or not meschlum had a hand in their creation.
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2011-06-03, 06:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
By the way, have you all read Luna's Guide to Surviving Creation? Because you really should. Luna's awesome. It's a shame that the Luna images seem to be broken, though.
The name is "tonberrian", even when it begins a sentence. It's magic, I ain't gotta 'splain why.
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2011-06-03, 06:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
Recent Homebrew: The Socialite | The Crystalline: Memory Altering Construct Race | Sanguine Hand, a ToB Discipline of blood and cruelty
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2011-06-03, 06:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
The name is "tonberrian", even when it begins a sentence. It's magic, I ain't gotta 'splain why.
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2011-06-03, 06:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-03, 06:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
It's fine, I'm just weird.
Recent Homebrew: The Socialite | The Crystalline: Memory Altering Construct Race | Sanguine Hand, a ToB Discipline of blood and cruelty
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2011-06-03, 06:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
One gem stands out as particularly Lix-worthy.
Originally Posted by LunaThe name is "tonberrian", even when it begins a sentence. It's magic, I ain't gotta 'splain why.
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2011-06-03, 06:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
Recent Homebrew: The Socialite | The Crystalline: Memory Altering Construct Race | Sanguine Hand, a ToB Discipline of blood and cruelty
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Thanks to all my avatar artists, especially to Paisley for my avatar of Vivian, cowardly cryophoenix.
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2011-06-03, 06:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-03, 09:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-03, 09:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-03, 10:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
Awesome Cyborg Doom Monkey avatar by Lord Fullbladder, Master of Goblins. Offer up your robo-bananas to him.
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2011-06-03, 10:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-03, 10:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-03, 10:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
For those of you who haven't noticed, the new Test of Spite has an Exalted component. So far, there's been one fight, and having more would be great to have more Exalted ones.
He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the centre of time and can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful.
"What you do is travel around, pitting your summons against other summoners. This gives you the right to compete in tournaments, and to gain more and more powerful summons.
Just watch out for evil Team Meteor Swarm, who want to steal your Eidolon for no good reason."
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2011-06-03, 10:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
It looks like this poster...
...is going nowhere Faust.
YEEEEEEEEEAH
Said artifact is N/A, unique, has several restrictions, and most importantly, does not just provide raw power.
The Perfect got where he is because he used the Rod's capabilities in a smart, intelligent manner. He didn't just gain the ability to learn CMAs and start beating up Dragon-Bloods.Awesome Cyborg Doom Monkey avatar by Lord Fullbladder, Master of Goblins. Offer up your robo-bananas to him.
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2011-06-03, 11:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
A N/A artifact that lets them learn one, specific CMA isn't broken. Especially if they only have access to the charms while 'attached' to the artifact.
He fears his fate too much, and his reward is small, who will not put it to the touch, to win or lose it all.
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2011-06-04, 12:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
Consider that there's already a lesser version: the War Devil's Skull enlightens a mortal's Essence and teaches them TMAs. Sure, there's the downside of it eventually making you a slave to it, and then turning your body into a fleshy portal for Octavian to emerge into Creation, but hey, everything's got a price.
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2011-06-04, 09:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
Why is a five dot artifact that lets a mortal learn a CMA totally broken again? Aren't some sidereals teaching a DB SMA? How is this so different? And even if it was, how does it break the setting?
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2011-06-04, 09:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
It's different because DBs explode if they ever try to use SMA charms.
Also, Exalts specifically should be able to enlighten lesser beings (Solars can let mortals learn Solar charms and can awaken their essence to learning TMA and sorcery). Artifacts aren't Exalts.
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2011-06-04, 09:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-06-04, 09:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
No, but they're made by exalts and way more resource intensive than most exalted methods of granting enlightenment and celestial level charms. So I don't think an artifact which grants a CMA to a mortal is broken, but I'm not sure what artifact level it should require (most certainly 5 dot or NA). Besides, their kung fu won't stop the first exalt who comes across them yoinking it if they're so inclined. As long as it doesn't grant a whole charm tree to exalts, it doesn't break the setting. Just any heroic mortal game it shows up in.
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2011-06-04, 09:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
CMA or not, mortals still face a lot of restrictions. Sucky Essence pool, no Excellencies, and no Combos. They will still get whupped by an Essence 2 Dragon-Blood, if that DB happens to specialize in fighting.
It's still a powerful artifact, but it will not break the setting.
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2011-06-04, 10:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
Okay. Back in the First Age, we have an elder Solar Twilighter McTwilightson. He's specialized in crafting, and has a few War charms.
Twilighter gets a good production line going, and starts churning these out. Let's say he can make 10 of them per year (conservative estimate, really), and that he does this for a century. 1000 of these things.
He then takes a bunch of mortals and trains them into badass kung-fu superwarriors, because War charms do that.
Twilighter then gives 1000 of these to the mortals. Guess what that looks like.
This is one Twilight.
Broken.
Also: Boring. A mortal martial arts genius that has lived for a century realizing the Stem of the Perfected Lotus with his final breath is cool. Having your Twilight buddy make an artifact that gives it to you is not. Artifact 5s should be incredibly cool wonders, not straight-up stat boosters.
Also also: Quite frankly, no, mortals do not get nice things. That's a pretty core tenet of the setting.Awesome Cyborg Doom Monkey avatar by Lord Fullbladder, Master of Goblins. Offer up your robo-bananas to him.
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2011-06-04, 10:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
One Twilight can, in much less time, make enough protoshinmaic vortexes to fully obliterate Creation. One Twilight can, in much less time, release the Kukla. There are far too many things that can be done in the game (especially by Twilights) which are only prevented by a good ST saying "shenanigans-no". It's best to remember that, for the most part, a good artifact is unique. Really, in the First Age, that Twilight has more practical uses of his time. First Age Dragon-bloods will always be better than mortals, even enlightened mortals with CMA, Tiger Warrior Training, and magitech armor. The only reason for a Twilight to make even ONE of these is going to be a unique and interesting reason. If it's not, you have more problems than simply having a mechanic that isn't allowed in the initial setting concept.
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2011-06-04, 10:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion V: Our Armies are Pants
Meanwhile, another Twilight spent the century sipping celestial wine. He sends one of the extant armies of tens of thousands of DB's, most with legendary breeding, to steamroll him.
Or, alternately, tens of thousands of mortal Gunzosha warriors, as that power armor is Artifact what, 3?
The First Age is not a good setting to measure artifact powerlevels in any case, if you ask me.
Though, it does occur to me that requiring a hearthstone to power its' more exotic capabilities would be an appropriate drawback as a 5-dot artifact.