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Exalted 3 - What the hell?

Started by DisgruntleFairy, February 24, 2014, 01:51:28 AM

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Nexus

Quote from: Snowman0147;881950Well of course.  The only reason I did the conversion is to provide something for people other than a massive book filled with too many charms to count.

Still the main setting of Godbound leave it to godbound.

Thanks for taking up the task.
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Snowman0147

Yeah thankfully making the exalted types had been easy.  Already figured out the fey of the border marches and completed the main five.  Yeah got the dragon bloods and abyssals done.  I just need to tweak them before I send in the links.  

Mainly dragon bloods get two artifacts per fact used in character creation.  Still that is limited by the fact that dragon blooded are basiclly heroic mortals.  They count as godbound when handling artifacts, but compared to the other exalted types the terrestrials are fairly weak.

Mean while the loyalist abyssals get freebies from their deathlord masters.  Rebels won't get those freebies.  Now IF you want to mix Godbound in with Exalted the exiled lord of hell, the angel Sammael, is interested in the abyssals.  Think new exalted type which is good for the good guys, but bad for the bad guys.  I call this new type Purified.

Baulderstone

It's interesting to see that discussion of Exalted 3E has almost completely dried up over on rpg.net, and this thread has mutated into a Godbound thread.

Snowman0147

Quote from: Baulderstone;882006It's interesting to see that discussion of Exalted 3E has almost completely dried up over on rpg.net, and this thread has mutated into a Godbound thread.

Considering they were and still are banning people at the big purple I am not surprise it is dying.

As for this thread?  Guilty as charge.  Still I like to believe it is about exalted even if I am coverting the setting to Godbound rules set.

Skywalker

Quote from: Maese Mateo;881831I agree. I like the Godbound setting as it is (the only thing I don't like, the Bright Republic, can be easily removed).

My only issue with the Godbound setting is that the regions are presented in a relatively extreme way, and there seems little room between them to add new regions of your own devising. This is exaggerated as its also a lot smaller than Creation.

I struggled to place my two scenarios in places where the flavour of the region didn't overbear the location's own flavour.

Of course, this can be accommodated for by dialling down the extreme nature of the regions and making the borders less clear.

Orphan81

Quote from: Skywalker;882046My only issue with the Godbound setting is that the regions are presented in a relatively extreme way, and there seems little room between them to add new regions of your own devising. This is exaggerated as its also a lot smaller than Creation.

I struggled to place my two scenarios in places where the flavour of the region didn't overbear the location's own flavour.

Of course, this can be accommodated for by dialling down the extreme nature of the regions and making the borders less clear.

I ended up creating my own Realm in the end. I love the sample realm, but Kevin's stuff is always very high on personal modification, his books are always encouraging GM's to do their own thing..

With my game on Roll20 now, I decided to take all my favorite fantasy settings, twist and modify them, and then smash them together to make my own realm..

Right now my players are dealing with the Dragon Blooded Empire invading Skyrim... Of I heavily personalized them to make it so it's not REALLY the Realm invading Skyrim... but the "Shining Empire" and "Vhorn" show their original DNA quite respectively..

I encourage you make your own realm.. given the scale of Godbound, the tiny details are no sweat so it's easier to paint in broad brushstrokes.
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Skywalker

Quote from: Orphan81;882049I encourage you make your own realm.. given the scale of Godbound, the tiny details are no sweat so it's easier to paint in broad brushstrokes.

I most likely will :)

Mostlyjoe

Quote from: Orphan81;882049Right now my players are dealing with the Dragon Blooded Empire invading Skyrim... Of I heavily personalized them to make it so it's not REALLY the Realm invading Skyrim... but the "Shining Empire" and "Vhorn" show their original DNA quite respectively..

I encourage you make your own realm.. given the scale of Godbound, the tiny details are no sweat so it's easier to paint in broad brushstrokes.

Damn. Wish I was in your game! I'm going to be running a game Weds nights with a crew of 4. I'm setting it in the Bleak Reach to the far north and the game is going to be a touch Conan spiced with Inhumanoids and He-man vs the Snakelords. So we'll see.

Nexus

Quote from: Baulderstone;882006It's interesting to see that discussion of Exalted 3E has almost completely dried up over on rpg.net, and this thread has mutated into a Godbound thread.


I had noticed how it dried up with a little amazement. But I guess there's nothing more to say from the backers that have it (especially being "too critical" seems to draw the Ban hammer) And the actual release of the game is "TBA".
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Mostlyjoe

Quote from: Nexus;882084I had noticed how it dried up with a little amazement. But I guess there's nothing more to say from the backers that have it (especially being "too critical" seems to draw the Ban hammer) And the actual release of the game is "TBA".

There is nothing much more to say now really. Just play games, and ask questions about upcoming product if you care anymore.

Orphan81

Quote from: Mostlyjoe;882081Damn. Wish I was in your game! I'm going to be running a game Weds nights with a crew of 4. I'm setting it in the Bleak Reach to the far north and the game is going to be a touch Conan spiced with Inhumanoids and He-man vs the Snakelords. So we'll see.

I run my games on Wednesdays and... my bestfriend would probably absolutely love playing in your game at the mention of Inhumanoids and He-man..

But I won't let him! He's in my game!
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Maese Mateo

Quote from: Snowman0147;881950Well of course.  The only reason I did the conversion is to provide something for people other than a massive book filled with too many charms to count.
It will be interesting to compare the Exalted-like themed splats in the final Godbound version to see the difference with your take.

Quote from: Baulderstone;882006It's interesting to see that discussion of Exalted 3E has almost completely dried up over on rpg.net, and this thread has mutated into a Godbound thread.
To be fair, it doesn't surprise me. Everyone I know who used to play Exalted in my country hates 3ed. In a way we all wanted the same thing: a simple system without a bazillon Charms.

So far I've been recommending Godbound to them.
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Nexus

Quote from: Maese Mateo;882242To be fair, it doesn't surprise me. Everyone I know who used to play Exalted in my country hates 3ed. In a way we all wanted the same thing: a simple system without a bazillon Charms.

So far I've been recommending Godbound to them.

See, I hear this constantly: the desire for a simpler system or least to avoid further complication from almost everyone I know the plays Exalted and in online discussions in most places up too the development of 3rd and currently.

But then all Holden and Morke's claim that they've talked to this silent majority of Exalted (off line of course) that would strenuously object to an Exalted that wasn't composed of literally hundreds of little rules packets bolted onto a dense rule framework. That anything else "isn't Exalted".

Now I have seen this opinion expressed. Mostly on rpg.net but not solely there but it hasn't been this overwhelming outcry that's so dominant that expecting anything else was idiotically naive as some folks like to claim.

Hell, for that matter I've never run into much Exalted talk off line. I assume it exists but it the game has always seemed to be mostly an internet phenomena including the extremely successful KS.
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Snowman0147

Quote from: Maese Mateo;882242To be fair, it doesn't surprise me. Everyone I know who used to play Exalted in my country hates 3ed. In a way we all wanted the same thing: a simple system without a bazillon Charms.

See that is why I am doing it.  We were all promised a simpler and streamlined system from the beginning.  Instead we got a mess that isn't even out yet.

Nexus

Quote from: Nexus;882084And the actual release of the game is "TBA".

Discussion along this line:

https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?777125-I-m-worried-about-the-future-of-Exalted
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

Democracy, meh? (538)

 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."