Quote from: Peregrin;388317It's sort of a "sneak peak."

Looks like. Personally, I'd have created a quick start adventure that both current fans and potential players would enjoy and find meaningful...

Seanchai

Quote from: FrankTrollman;388273Exalted's pretensions to being "high brow" are pretty hard to take in the face of Camel Toe.
Exalted's pretensions to being for "storytellers" not "gamers" is pretty hardto take in the face of the actual mechanics.

White Wolf's bizarre combination of elitism and ludditism is actually pretty offensive. People who do "math" or know "science" aren't cool like they are. Sometimes they have good ideas, sometimes they have bad ideas. But either way, they are such incredible assholes about it that they are very easy to hate.

-Frank

Its not that hard to understand, though. They were the art nerds in high school, the ones who spent all their time writing bad poetry, most of them were goths, they imagined themselves to be great suffering artists in the making and were sure that at some point they would be recognized for their "genius".  They were horribly picked on, but they hated all the uncouth annoying math geeks who were picked on too.

Suddenly, as time goes by they watch those math geeks who they so despised for their lack of taste and style going on to get jobs making huge wads of cash with computers, or becoming respected scientists, in other words, being recognized for their genius. On the other hand, the art-losers are mopping up vomit in front of a bar or punching timeclocks at the 7-11 because in fact they have no artistic talent, and hate the idea of having to put actual effort into being recognized or respected. They've always felt an utterly undeserved sense of entitlement, and their feeling is that if they're not getting to be the beautiful pretty glorious ones that everyone admires, its because society must be wrong. So overwhelmingly, the art-losers will rail against capitalism, western civilization, science, and even reality, all because they see these things as barriers between them and their utterly baseless notion of the high place and rank they think they should deserve without doing absolutely anything to earn it.

In other words, they're cunts of the highest order, and a worthless impediment for our civilization.

RPGPundit

You really really need to get out more.

Quote from: RPGPundit;388436Its not that hard to understand, though. They were the art nerds in high school, the ones who spent all their time writing bad poetry, most of them were goths, they imagined themselves to be great suffering artists in the making and were sure that at some point they would be recognized for their "genius".  They were horribly picked on, but they hated all the uncouth annoying math geeks who were picked on too.

Hee-hee.  This is fun.  So I have to ask:  What sort of irrevocably contemptible geek were you in high school?

!i!

Quote from: Ian Absentia;388470Hee-hee.  This is fun.  So I have to ask:  What sort of irrevocably contemptible geek were you in high school?

!i!

I was a role-playing geek.

RPGPundit

Quote from: Seanchai;388068I finally(!) got Alchemicals yesterday. I am so jazzed!

Seanchai

How is it? I got it but we haven't played Exalted in a while and I've been busy GMing so haven't had time to give it more than a cursory glance. Is it like the 1e version?

Quote from: James McMurray;388654How is it? I got it but we haven't played Exalted in a while and I've been busy GMing so haven't had time to give it more than a cursory glance. Is it like the 1e version?

Sorry. I don't have anything for 1e beyond the core rulebook. So I'm not sure how they used to work. I'm prepping for a CoC game - and I just bought a ton of crap! - so I probably won't get to read it for a while.

Seanchai