Quote from: Snowman0147;819439Well she is always seem to be siding with that site any time this shit pops up.  What does that tell you?

That our mods allow a diverse number of opinions to be expressed here?

Quote from: Nexus;819948Well, the fiction anthology was apparently a bomb.

How bad we talking here?

Quote from: Marvelous_Metal_Man;819986How bad we talking here?

Dune prequels.

Quote from: Marvelous_Metal_Man;819986How bad we talking here?

The best of the stories reads like generic fantasy. Honestly, I am shocked they even published some of the stories.

It is so bad that the developers had to come out and say they had nothing to do with the project.

Quote from: Marvelous_Metal_Man;819986How bad we talking here?

Its being described as several unrelated stories that bear little relation to each other or Exalted except for a thin veneer of Exalted trappings by people that don't seem to have done anything but glanced over the setting.

Some of the gems mentioned are a "magic academy" run and staffed by several Solar Exalted, openly, who associate with mortals, openly with no apparent repercussions, the Empress becoming the Emperor, a Dragonblooded not only Exalting again as a Solar but keeping her Terrestrial Exalt powers and a Godzilla sized Exigent rampaging through the Imperial city, probably the most "possible" deviation since Exigents are a wildcard (and Lunars had a Kaiju charm in 2ed anyway).

Apparently there's more but those are the ones that get mentioned the most. They say there are some good stories in the collection but the overall reaction has been disappointment, some anger and a resigned "Good thing its was "free".

Quote from: TristramEvans;819953That our mods allow a diverse number of opinions to be expressed here?

oh snap

Quote from: Nexus;820016Its being described as several unrelated stories that bear little relation to each other or Exalted except for a thin veneer of Exalted trappings by people that don't seem to have done anything but glanced over the setting.

Some of the gems mentioned are a "magic academy" run and staffed by several Solar Exalted, openly, who associate with mortals, openly with no apparent repercussions, the Empress becoming the Emperor, a Dragonblooded not only Exalting again as a Solar but keeping her Terrestrial Exalt powers and a Godzilla sized Exigent rampaging through the Imperial city, probably the most "possible" deviation since Exigents are a wildcard (and Lunars had a Kaiju charm in 2ed anyway).

Apparently there's more but those are the ones that get mentioned the most. They say there are some good stories in the collection but the overall reaction has been disappointment, some anger and a resigned "Good thing its was "free".

Like I said, Dune prequels.

Written by hacks with no knowledge or care as to the source material.

Quote from: Warboss Squee;820030Like I said, Dune prequels.

Written by hacks with no knowledge or care as to the source material.

The House trilogy were passable, I don't know why people whine about them so much. At least they're not as batshit as some of the later Dune books.

The prehistory type trilogy, about the Butlerian Jihad, on the other hand was complete drivel.

Sometimes I really wish I'd gotten the Exalted 1st Edition core, used it as the basis for Hero System setting and never even look at another book in the line (with the possible exception of Scavenger Sons).

Quote from: Kiero;820076The House trilogy were passable, I don't know why people whine about them so much. At least they're not as batshit as some of the later Dune books.

The prehistory type trilogy, about the Butlerian Jihad, on the other hand was complete drivel.

Hence why I said PREQUELS.

Quote from: Kiero;820076The House trilogy were passable, I don't know why people whine about them so much.

Passable mediocrity is an derisible follow-up to genius.

Quote from: Warboss Squee;820165Hence why I said PREQUELS.

Yes, there were two prequel trilogies. The House trilogy and the Butlerian Jihad trilogy. As I said, one was alright and the other awful.

Quote from: TristramEvans;820182Passable mediocrity is an derisible follow-up to genius.

I'm not sure I'd call the batshit weirdness of the later Dune books "genius".

Quote from: Kiero;820210Yes, there were two prequel trilogies. The House trilogy and the Butlerian Jihad trilogy. As I said, one was alright and the other awful.

Eh, fair enough. I tend to forget the House trilogy, since it's in fact so forgettable. Or maybe the Butlerian Jihad trilogy was so bad that that it manages to overshadow the other.

Quote from: Kiero;820210I'm not sure I'd call the batshit weirdness of the later Dune books "genius".

I certainly would. Then, I didn't find them "weird".

Quote from: Snowman0147;819879Think is we live in a capitalist society and better companies out there that produce games.  I mean they get their kickstarters on time, they don't do secrecy bullshit, don't have a shitty attitude, and their books are good quality.  So yes base on this fact alone Exalted 3rd edition should fail.

Never mind better companies - different creative teams within Onyx Path do way better about finishing Kickstarters off on time, keeping the backers in the loop about what's going on, and maintaining a good attitude all the way through.

Compare, for instance, the Exalted team's flaps about their leaks to the approach of the Demon: the Descent designers, which was to post the first draft of the book as part of the Kickstarter pitch so people could see whether they considered it at all worth backing to begin with. That free download is still available and they straight-up don't care because they'd rather use rough documents like that as advertisements for the finish product than run around playing whack-a-mole trying to suppress something that's already irreversibly out in the wild.