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2011-01-21, 04:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion II: No Longer Mortal
A Gremlin syndrome GSP would be hated by yozis, autochthonians and Neverborn. He'd probably be too busy running for his life to do enough evil to be hated by normal people
But EVERYONE hates the ED. EVERYONE
I mean, I want to give the First and Forsaken Lion and Adorjan hugs, but the ED? Kill on sight.Recent Homebrew: The Socialite | The Crystalline: Memory Altering Construct Race | Sanguine Hand, a ToB Discipline of blood and cruelty
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2011-01-21, 05:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-01-21, 08:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Let me just point out here, he could never "go Heretical." It's by definition impossible; Heretical charms are charms that the established Yozi doesn't have. Since a Yozi literally is the entirety of his charmset, the Ebon Dragon would have to have charms he didn't have to "go Heretical." That's a logical contradiction.
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2011-01-21, 09:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-01-21, 02:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion II: No Longer Mortal
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SpoilerEssence-Compressing Capture Sphere
Artifact ●,●● or ●●●●
Essence-Compressing Capture Spheres are roughly fist-sized metal orbs, split horizonntally in half and held together by a white metal stud and a hinge-like mechanism and covered in arcane symbols and occult patterns. They can be made from any material, require no attunement and are considered throwing weapons of speed 5, rate 3 and 50 ft range until they actually contain something, gaining all the bonuses for an attuned ranged weapon of that material (Excluding those pertaining to damage). When they succesfully hit a spirit, elemental or non-human creature (Alchemicals and Jadeborn are considered human), instead of calculating damage, the target rolls (Resistance+Integrity) against the user's (Thrown+Presence). Should the target fail the roll, they are converted into a stream of compressed essence and sucked into the Sphere. From then on, the creature or spirit is considered the owner's familiar; they will automatically obey any order given to them by their master unless they fail or pass a required Virtue roll, or pass an integrity roll against an order that opposes their mental or metaphysical nature (such as ordering a nephwrack to defend a living being). Additionally, though they can disagree with their master, they will not actively oppose them unless under the effects of unnatural mental influence, and if owned by a player character, their actions in combat are completely directed by the player. Captured beings automatically pass their rolls on future capture attempts. Whilst inside the sphere, beings heal and respire (For applicable beings) twice as fast, and are immune to environmental effects outside the sphere. For the purposes of respiration, underworld denzins are considered inside the underworld whilst in a soulsteel Sphere.
As mentioned before, Spheres can be made of any material, and provide a -3 penalty to the rolls of the target creature should it be made of a specific material:
- Orichalcum and Starmetal Spheres apply the penalty to devas and gods.
- Jade Spheres apply the penalty to elementals and kami.
- Moonsilver Spheres apply the penalty to Wyld creatures and mutants with 5 or more mutations.
- Soulsteel Spheres apply the penalty to all types of ghosts.
- Adamant Spheres apply the penalty to Autochthonian elementals and examachina.
- Any vitrol-corrupted Sphere applies the penalty to demons instead of their original targets.
Additionally, Spheres are much more common than other artifacts. A set of six Spheres of identical material can be purchased for Artifact ●● at startup, and Jade spheres can be purchased in most towns in a Second Age setting by any character with Resources ●●●+ or equivalent (purchasing more than 10 Spheres in a month subtracts one dot), with Spheres of other materials available from more specialized shops. In a First Age game, Spheres of any material (Excluding Soulsteel and, after Autochthon's exile, Adamant) can be purchased by Resources ●●+ or equivalent with no such restrictions. In Autochthonia, Spheres of any material can be purchased for resources ●●+ or equivalent (●●●+ in the Second Age).
Beings above essence 5 require specialized Spheres for capture, which raises the artifact level to 4 and rendering them entirely unavailabe for purchase in the Second Age (They can be purchased in the First Age for Wealth 3 or equivalent). Attempting to capture beings of essence 6 or 7 with an unspecialized sphere imposes a -3 penalty to the user's rolls, while beings of 8+ impose a -5 penalty. Additionally, succesfully capturing an essence 8+ being with an unspecialized Sphere causes it to explode in a perfect 75 foot ball of shimmering, concentrated essence in the colour of its component material, glowing with the intensity of a star. Beings within 300 feet of the blast are blinded for six months unless underground or inside a windowless building (Exalted and essence 4+ beings may roll Resistance), while those inside the blast suffer both this roll and 10 levels of unblockable, undodgable Aggrivated damage.
While a person can possess any ammount of empty spheres, they may only possess six occupied Spheres at any one time. Should they possess a Manse, excess Spheres are automatically transported to a vault in said Manse should they have their hearthstone somewhere on their person. This vault can be accessed remotely while meditating uninterrupted for over five minutes with the hearthstone. Otherwise, succesful captures are automatically released. While these vaults are practically unlimited in most games, Storytellers may impose a limit on the capacity of these vaults. In this case, these vaults are considered to have a maximum capacity of (Manse levelX5). At the Storyteller's discretion, a manse with definite statistics may have a specialised vault, increasing the capacity to X10.
Incidentally, although Alchemical Akuma are usually impossible, what happens if we throw an Alchie into a vat of vitrol?Originally Posted by The-Mage-King;
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2011-01-21, 02:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion II: No Longer Mortal
Personally, I favor treating it as an acid bath that does aggravated damage, as Malfeas vents his anger upon the unfortunate servant of the traitor Autochthon.
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2011-01-21, 03:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion II: No Longer Mortal
I'd say screw the rules, Akuma Alchie. xD
....also, I love the capture spheres. Why can't they work on exalts?Recent Homebrew: The Socialite | The Crystalline: Memory Altering Construct Race | Sanguine Hand, a ToB Discipline of blood and cruelty
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2011-01-21, 03:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion II: No Longer Mortal
I actually asked this in the first thread, I think, and-
-I'm pretty sure Teln told me this. Along with a few other poo-pooers.
Afterwards, I actually drew up rules for a Vitriol Caste, though it wasn't so much "throw into a vat of vitriol", but "baptize with vitriol refined with Chalcanth", like you would alter an artifact or create a Hellforged Wonder.5e D&D Mythos Classes
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2011-01-21, 03:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hmm...what Languages does Lookshy Speak? I'd imagine that Forest Tongue/Riverspeak are useful, but those might be more along the lines of Spanish in certain parts of the US today.
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2011-01-21, 03:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion II: No Longer Mortal
After scouring the Compass: Scavenger Lands and the Scroll of Heroes (they have a Lookshy section if I recall) for a character I wanted to make from Lookshy, I couldn't actually find a definitive answer.
My best guess is that you can get by with High Realm or Riverspeak in Lookshy. Riverspeak being like Spanish in the US: a few hundred years from now when Spanish is just ubiquitous.5e D&D Mythos Classes
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2011-01-21, 03:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion II: No Longer Mortal
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2011-01-21, 03:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-01-21, 03:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion II: No Longer Mortal
Or only on DBs.
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2011-01-21, 03:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion II: No Longer Mortal
Mmmm... Gonna have to think about that. Depends on how many people play them. As for the Exalts-as-Pokemon idea, that may work for a mortal-oriented campaign. Unless we're talking about giving 12-year olds these things. In a setting like Exalted, that's asking for trouble. Ironically, making them only work on DBs brings them even closer to what they were originally intended to be-subservient foot-soldiers of the Solars.
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2011-01-21, 03:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Exactly my point.
Hmm...
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The DBs got more and more freedom as the first age went on, as Solars became lax. This led to them having enough freedom to usurpation, after which they tried to destroy thepokeballsessence capture spheres. Unfortunately, they were indestructible, so they buried them and destroyed all records.
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2011-01-21, 03:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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The Dynasts just asked for a pay rise. And the Wyld Hunt. Especially the Immaculates. The Lookshyans just comitted seppuku.
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2011-01-21, 04:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, sounds about right. xD
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2011-01-21, 04:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Wouldn't that be the whole point of giving them to mortals?
Also, I'm attempting to homebrew a Sidereal Martial Art, which I'm calling Resplendent Firmament Style. It is, unsurprisingly, about stars. I was thinking of having one charm for each of the 25 constellations, but that's kinda ridiculous, so I'm doing 12 charms total - 2 for each for each of the astrological houses in the Sidereals book, plus a form charm and a capstone. I'd like feedback on the names and concepts of the charms before I try to work out the details:
Resplendent Firmament Style
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The Sidereal can instantly travel to an object or being that he has touched before anywhere inside Fate, and make an unexpected attack against them if he so chooses.
Unbridgeable Lacuna Insouciance
Perfect dodge against physical or social attacks, with which the user is as distant from harm as the stars, and cares about the attacker exactly as much as they do. The attacker must roll Willpower, and if fails loses 1 wp from frustration at the Sidereal's blithe denial that they pose any threat.
All Fists Under Heaven
For a moment, the Sidereal holds every weapon on the battlefield. He can force characters with a total Essence equal to his total dots in House of Battles colleges (maximum 25) to launch a coordinated attack against a target of his choice, with no need to make the normal Charisma + War roll.
Unlock the Three Treasures
If the Sidereal hits, the target loses ~ 5m, 1wp, and the Sidereal automatically perfectly dodges if the target attacks him on its next action, by reading its planned actions through its surface thoughts.
Crow Feeds From the Pyre
The Sidereal binds himself to one opponent on the battlefield, with Essence no greater than his martial arts + highest dots in a House of Endings college, maximum 10. For each health level of damage that opponent takes, the Sidereal heals a health level or gains another corresponding health level.
Resplendent Firmament Form
-1 to the TN and difficulty of all combat-related rolls, and +2 to all DVs, for the duration of the scene. Also, all attempts to move the Sidereal against his will have no effect on him. Also, he can fly.
To Clearer Skies
The Sid can move the entire battle he's in to a more suitable location of his choice anywhere inside Fate. Opponents can resist, but if they do anyone who doesn't resist goes along – so opponents have to choose between letting the Sid's group escape and having to fight them in the Crimson Panoply of Victory, the slopes of Mt. Meru, 20 miles in midair, etc. Only usable within 2 actions of joining battle.
Sky-as-Divan Repose
Scene-length perfect dodge against physical or social attacks, but only functions on ticks where the user's action is Guard, Aim, or Inactive. Doing anything more violent than observing breaks the perfectly untroubled state of mind that the Sidereal must maintain to ignore attacks.
Fivescore Flawless Blows
Kill 100 extras (or a mass combat unit with Might 2 or less and Magnitude 3 or less) instantly.
Twilight Guardian Revelation
Gives the effects of Whirlwind of Fate, as a reflexive action
Falling Star Cataclysm
Drops a star on the target, automatically knocking him and everyone in a wide radius around down, dealing lethal piercing damage to him and bludgeoning damage to everyone in the radius. Only perfect parries work against it, but can be dodged as normal. The Sidereal can choose to have the star of a god who is personally known to him fall, and can choose whether that god dies or whether the star springs back up to heaven, leaving the god shaken but unharmed. Reckless use of this charm is a really good way to get audited to death.
Inescapable Million-Star Doom
Perfect attack.that target can only avoid by accepting a Descending Destiny of the Sidereal's choice for a number of actions equal to the Sidereal's Essence – if refuse to accept it, can't avoid it with a perfect defense, because he had an opportunity for a perfect defense by accepting the Destiny. It's meant to be balanced on Singular Escape Strategem.
The attacker may voluntarily forego any defense in order to take none of the attack's usual effects, but if he does so he must accept a Descending Destiny crafted by the Sidereal on the spot.
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They will shout at you. They will say things like "But Perfect Defenses work anyway because of 'UFIO', so your charm does nothing!". They will mock you for your point of balance being Scroll of the Monk material.
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Why? If you know it's a bad idea, why do it?
And getting around perfects is a bad idea.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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Take your best shot, everyone else does.
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2011-01-21, 06:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion II: No Longer Mortal
Because having the ultimate attack of a fate-themed martial art be easy to completely ignore leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Plus I think "You can perfect away this attack for free, but if you do your rolls are at +1 TN or +1 difficulty for about 6 actions" isn't terribly unbalanced.
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2011-01-21, 07:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: General Exalted Discussion II: No Longer Mortal
In Exalted, it is always easier to defend against something than to inflict that something. Shaping attacks are shut down by an Essence 2 Integrity Charm, while applying them is an Essence 4 Lore Charm.
Also, Martial Arts should not interact with Sidereal Astrology ever. Martial Arts Charms can be picked up by anyone and Sidereal Astrology is the sole province of the Sidereal Exalted.
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2011-01-21, 07:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-01-21, 07:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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I use black for sarcasm.
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2011-01-21, 07:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Aww, you beat me to it!
Anyway, one of the players who'd intended to drop may well be able to play after all. I suppose I'll let you guys know how the game goes next week...
Oh, by the way, thought I'd drop this in here... the guy's asking to buy a three-dot Martial Arts mentor. Would it be too much for me to have the sifu be a Gold Faction Sidereal?