Quote from: Shrieking Banshee;1114829You still add your enemies AC to your attack. Its weird

I was completely wrong, it's descending AC. Instead of defaulting to THAC0, here's a fixed target number and you add AC to the attack roll, as you mention, but it's functionally equivalent to THAC0.

I love Exalted...via the Exalted 1e quickstart.

I've run several short campaigns and many one-shots with just those rules and its been a blast. I couldn't believe how much of a mess the full game was in comparison, but it was the same thing with Aeon Trinity where the quickstart rocked so hard, but the big thick book of wank and the splat line of splatiness just tore out the soul of the original idea.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1114836I love Exalted...via the Exalted 1e quickstart.

I've run several short campaigns and many one-shots with just those rules and its been a blast. I couldn't believe how much of a mess the full game was in comparison, but it was the same thing with Aeon Trinity where the quickstart rocked so hard, but the big thick book of wank and the splat line of splatiness just tore out the soul of the original idea.

Greetings!

The "Big, thick book of wank..." *LAUGHING* The downfall of many game books, with endless splat books following, all full of gibberish!

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

I tried to make a character in 3e Exalted that I made in Godbound (I didn't end up super loving the system but creation was fast and exciting) as a test.
It gave me a headache again.

To describe the system, it's like if a regular White Wolf magic system had a tumor and that tumor grew in size until it ate the original magic system completely and became the new system and had some more tumors.


It's impressively awful. Not being hyperbolic here: I could make something this bad if I tried, but I would have to TRY.
And I guess this Book is an exalted solar, and its excellency is White wolfs terrible editing. Because the editing was exaltedly bad. I know white wolf's information layouting is awful. But this is that normal level of awful but exalted.

Buckets of dice

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;1115169Buckets of dice

Shadowrun is buckets of dice.
Exalted is 10 unlabeled cups of dice (With closed tops) with 90 other cups that contain nothing.

Like I said I was impressed.

Here is a video of a basic combat round.  Notice I said BASIC COMBAT ROUND.

[video=youtube;ZgepDFYVXXY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgepDFYVXXY[/youtube]

Quote from: Shrieking Banshee;1114282I was running a Pathfinder session when one of the players linked me to some olden webcomic I read when I was a wee lad (Keychain of Creation). Out of nostalgia, I checked it out again.
And it was still good. It had a sense of humor, even if it was one of the dem Order of the Stick knockoffs at the time.
Still, it was a good time, and then I realized "Oh, it was also based on some kind of roleplaying game? I kinda missed that initially" (I thought it was modelled after an MMO).
And so I read Exalted, the latest edition.
I feel like I had been punted in the head. Social justice up the butt was one thing. And so where the generally bloated mechanics.

But the prose....The goddam prose. Felt like I was reading fanfiction.
"Im super duper awesome but cursed and everything is gonna die and suck and woa is me but we are awesome but everything sucks, but Woeee is meeeee"

It felt like a setting Im supposed to observe and not play in. Where the plot hooks? Places where my PC could get involved to make a difference? Im just supposed to mess around with the set dressing until the world implodes?

Reading Gurps after it felt like a breath of fresh air. Even in post-apocalyptic settings they expect you to be able to DO something about it.

I had a similar experience and share a similar opinion. Here, have a copy of my high-powered martial-arts post-apocalyptic rpg-thing, for free.