Quote from: Armchair Gamer;863767OK, I don't want to see an Exalted 3 proponent complaining about the complexity of Hero System combat ever again ...

Oh....  that chart.....  

yeah...

Quote from: Armchair Gamer;863767OK, I don't want to see an Exalted 3 proponent complaining about the complexity of Hero System combat ever again ...

I thought Hero was known for complex character generation and not a difficult system. I've never played and only read very small portions though.

Quote from: Armchair Gamer;863767OK, I don't want to see an Exalted 3 proponent complaining about the complexity of Hero System combat ever again ...

Are there Exalted proponents complaining about Hero? I mean, 2e was about equally complicated:).

Now, Hero chargen has some quirks that I don't want to bother learning, but that's not the same as thinking it's too complicated;).

Quote from: Ryan L.;863760A flowchart someone put together over on Reddit.

It's funny when the flowchart makes it look ridiculously more complicated than it actually is.

Quote from: Ryan L.;863801I thought Hero was known for complex character generation and not a difficult system. I've never played and only read very small portions though.

Yeah, that's the 'problem' with HERO, it's very front loaded.  But once you're done, that's it, you're done.  Roll 3D6, lower the better.

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?768985-Exalted-Why-is-Everyone-Praising-3e&p=19548177#post19548177

Apparently you like bad rules if you think there is something wrong with the BP/XP split of storyteller. Haha.

Quote from: gibdefs;863835http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?768985-Exalted-Why-is-Everyone-Praising-3e&p=19548177#post19548177

Apparently you like bad rules if you think there is something wrong with the BP/XP split of storyteller. Haha.

I can see the ad now: Wanted: Talented and driven Community and PR manager for Onyx Path's Exalted game line. Ability to travel back in tme strongly preferred.

Quote from: gibdefs;863835http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?768985-Exalted-Why-is-Everyone-Praising-3e&p=19548177#post19548177

Apparently you like bad rules if you think there is something wrong with the BP/XP split of storyteller. Haha.

Yeah, I facepalmed hard when I saw this;).

Community manager for Exalted? Hey, I can be hired cheaply, due to location, and I dare defend Exalted on therpgsite:D!

Quote from: AsenRG;863840Yeah, I facepalmed hard when I saw this;).

Community manager for Exalted? Hey, I can be hired cheaply, due to location, and I dare defend Exalted on therpgsite:D!

Congratulations. That was my reaction the first few times Holden pulled stuff like this back during 2nd edition, but now I've grown to expect it from him. I've actually started to wonder if some of the other OPP people don't wish he'd be muzzled from time to time. Public relations is definitely not his specialty.

And following swiftly on the heels of that comes the inevitable "You're little minority opinions don't matter; don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!" Post.

Other than roll buckets of dice, what the fuck do you do in Exalted anyway?

Quote from: One Horse Town;863847Other than roll buckets of dice, what the fuck do you do in Exalted anyway?

Make threads on rpg.net and talk about "charms" or some character in the lore with a ridiculous name.

Nobody actually plays Exalted.

Quote from: One Horse Town;863847Other than roll buckets of dice, what the fuck do you do in Exalted anyway?

It's like every other RPG.  It's just suffering from having been late and the product of a lot of secrecy and a lot of other stuff, and having a very involved fan base.  I mean, they love the game.  I'm not surprised by any of the reactions, pro or con.

I say that as somebody with a writing credit on 3e, although I haven't seen a copy of 3e and had nothing to do with the rules.

Quote from: One Horse Town;863847Other than roll buckets of dice, what the fuck do you do in Exalted anyway?

That depends entirely on who you ask and which edition you're looking at. It can have a tone that's pretty light or unrelentingly dark and depressing. That's a big part of why there's so much disagreement about what the "real" Exalted is.

The generic Exalted campaign is a group of five Solar Exalted going about Creation, righting wrongs and fighting against the evil empire that wants them dead. Maybe they build their own empire in the process or they just focus on stopping the seemingly innumerable world-ending threats that seem to crop up in every corner. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. For example, the second edition core book put forward one idea where all the characters had their own warstrider. It was basically a fantasy-ish Power Rangers campaign.

So I guess the real answer is basically, "Whatever the hell you want." Save the world. Build a kingdom. Explore ancient ruins. Expand Creation's borders. Assemble your own pirate fleet and rule the western ocean. Head into the Underworld and start smacking around some ghosts. You've got the sort of power most gods only dream of and the world is yours to explore.

Quote from: One Horse Town;863847Other than roll buckets of dice, what the fuck do you do in Exalted anyway?

As a Solar? It's fantasy X-Men, only there's a reason the Realm (huge empire) is hunting you down — your kind used to rule the world, starting out as benevolent rulers and quickly decaying into insane god-kings. Of course, the world is crap right now, threatened by everything from undead to demons to reality-eating fairy folk to other Exalts, and heroic PCs are likely to step up and try to save it, but this can entail anything from murderhoboing to kingdom building.

As a Dragon-Blooded? Game of Thrones with less powerful, color-coded elemental-themed kinda-Roman kinda-Han Chinese aristocratic supers.

As a Lunar? Werewolf: the Apocalypse with all the stops pulled off. You can be a weredinosaur or weremastodon or wereanythingreally. You are an absolute combat god. Oh, and you and the Solars used to be besties, but you're a wild thing and all, so when they ask you the time of the day you might be just as likely to disembowel them, or fuck their brains out, or possibly both in whatever order suits you best.

As a Sidereal, Abyssal or Infernal? Meh.

As a mortal? You have giant brass balls. I salute you.

Gross oversimplification but there you have it.