Quote from: Christopher Brady;893334For me, it just blows my mind that this mess of a character is meant to be a successful diplomat.  Anger management issues don't really work well, when you have to compromise a weapons deal....

Quote from: Glamourweaver;20018198Were there ever any other Morke blog posts going in depth on the new signature characters?  I remember the Prince Diamond one and the Perfect Soul one (where we learned the Prince is the unambiguous good guy of the new set, while Perfect Soul is the queen of real-politik, a former Realm collaborator manipulating religious prophesy toward her own ends), but did the other 3 ever get posts?

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Quote from: Zeea;20019462I think that would have been helpful, but I did my own little study just now. There's a lot of contradicting stuff, and the whole "shouting distance ends at Medium Range" thing is complicated, but I'm going to go with the lower end estimates for ranges to match the implied vertical distance of jumping charms and the practical ranges of thrown and archery weapons.

Short Range is maybe a couple stories high, or a short charge that still gives you time to attack in a 3-6 second round, so let's go with 5 yards or a little more.

Some brief study suggested that a pilum had an effective range of about 30 yards, and that's a Medium Range throwing weapon, so let's go for that as Medium Range.

Modern longbows have an effective range of 180 meters, and English longbows had a sustained combat effective range of about 180 paces according to Wikipedia. That also fits with our pattern of multiplying things by 6 each increment, so lets go with 180 yards. Conveniently, that's probably beyond practical shouting-in-combat-and-being-understood distance, which fits Exalted's definition.

Extreme range is beyond mortal capability for distance, and the long medieval English longbow target shot was 360 yards or so, according to Wikipedia, so it has to be more than that. Also, Exalted says you can barely see people at this distance. Let's just keep up our multiplier and go with 180x6, then just round it to a nice even 1000 yards.

Now, theoretically, this means someone can run about half a mile 1000 yards in 12 seconds, but rounds are abstract units of time and explicitly longer for some combats. I think the time for two parties to close from extreme to long range is easily covered by "that first round takes longer," and the weirdness of certain rare "move four times in one fight" situations is acceptable in exchange for an abstract combat system.

Anyway! A charm that lets you move 3 range increments per round out of combat? That's multiplying your speed by 36, using our distance rules. So take typical human marching speeds (25 miles per eight hours is apparently a good benchmark expectation) and multiply by 36. That's 900 miles, assuming good conditions. The EX3 map has measurements given, so...yeah. You can move pretty damn fast across that map if you've got an ability that lets you do that. That also feels about right for me for what a supernatural badass should be able to accomplish.

Quote from: Whitewings;893616They still don't have actual stat block for animals, which is a very serious oversight when two thirds of the Survival Charms are dedicated to enhancing your familiars' Ability ratings.

Also, I do not care whether Diamond wants to be called a man or a woman. I call Diamond a nut. Diamond genuinely believes that she's a guy, on every level including the biological? That's seriously nuts. Diamond thinks of herself as a man, believes she should be a man, and is seeking a way to become a man? That's fine. That's actually pretty cool, and gives a good ongoing plot hook: find someone who can turn her into a guy for a price she's willing to pay. As it stands, Diamond really comes off as a moron.

Quote from: Nexus;893618I hadn't heard that she believes she is physically male but yeah that would definitely be delusional. I do recall of developer discussion Prince Diamond isn't looking for a way to literally transform herself (Transition?) and probably wouldn't be interested if offered the chance.

Quote from: Whitewings;893630At the least, Diamond believes that physiology is completely irrelevant to being a guy, which indicates very major cognitive dissonance. No matter how I look at it, Diamond is seriously wrong in the head.

Quote from: Millenium;893644I don't understand how they got away with that Dereth thing. Prince Diamond wants to do shit, being a woman she is not allowed to by her sexist culture so she becomes a man. Boom bada bing, transsexuality as internalized misogyny. Do they just ban people who point out how problematically toxic this is or is the rpg.net crowd too stupid to notice such an obvious gloss?

Quote from: Millenium;893644I don't understand how they got away with that Dereth thing. Prince Diamond wants to do shit, being a woman she is not allowed to by her sexist culture so she becomes a man. Boom bada bing, transsexuality as internalized misogyny. Do they just ban people who point out how problematically toxic this is or is the rpg.net crowd too stupid to notice such an obvious gloss?