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Godbound Beta

Started by Brand55, September 13, 2015, 05:25:36 PM

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Mostlyjoe

#150
March 04, 2016, 04:50:17 PM
Quote from: Godfather Punk;883290Not fair, teasing all the permabanned over here :p

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AsenRG

#151
March 04, 2016, 05:41:26 PM
Quote from: Mostlyjoe;883333Do it at rpg.net irc. Bans on the site mean squat on the irc channel.
That would be unfair to us in different timezones;).
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Maese Mateo

#152
March 04, 2016, 07:00:16 PM
So, tomorrow is the big day, I'm running my Godbound demo. YAY!:D
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AsenRG

#153
March 05, 2016, 04:27:18 AM
Quote from: Maese Mateo;883347So, tomorrow is the big day, I'm running my Godbound demo. YAY!:D

Good luck!
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Nexus

#154
March 05, 2016, 10:28:13 PM
http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/exalted/841837-exalted-like-game-on-kickstarter-sine-nomine-s-godbound/page3

Posting in case it wasn't linked here (didn't see it but I may have missed it). I am pretty surprised there's folks saying God bound's setting is darker than Creation.
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nDervish

#155
March 06, 2016, 06:36:59 AM
Quote from: Nexus;883518http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/exalted/841837-exalted-like-game-on-kickstarter-sine-nomine-s-godbound/page3

Posting in case it wasn't linked here (didn't see it but I may have missed it). I am pretty surprised there's folks saying God bound's setting is darker than Creation.

Nope, hadn't seen the link before.

Pretty much all I know about Exalted comes from people on TBP complaining about the infamous crotch-shot cover art, so I don't know jack about their Creation setting, but, if that poster's description of it is accurate, I have to agree with him that the setting is darker in Godbound.  As a reply over there says, there's the possibility for the PCs to fix things, but, IMO, that only lightens the tone of the game.  The setting is still pretty damn dark, at least until the PCs start actually changing it.

Nexus

#156
March 06, 2016, 07:33:00 AM Last Edit: March 06, 2016, 07:51:46 AM by Nexus
Offered in counter point

QuoteGodbound Heaven is a shattered ruin, and the main reason to go there is to do some cosmically destructive looting. Exalted Heaven is an impossibly-luxurious city where the big problem is that the world-running bureaucracy isn't efficient.

Isn't efficient, incredibly corrupt. Potato, Potahto. Its incredibly luxurious, if you were on the beings in power which currently include some of the most powerful Exalted Exalts in the setting most of which have a vested personal interest in see you dead (if you're a Solar) or kept well away (if you're practically anyone else). Its a massive gated community of the highest order that's incredibly dangerous to several of the PC types (and really only easily accessible to one).

QuoteExalted Hell is a weird and wondrous place that, for the most part, doesn't affect Creation much. It's dangerous and generally unpleasant, but there are reasons to live there and you don't have to if you don't want to.

Weird and wondrous? Screaming winds that tear you apart, torture forests and flesh towers, lakes of acidic bile. Oh and the rulers are insane vengeful alien gods that have been stewing in their own madness for millennia? Again, dangerous, restricted and largely off limits to most (Infernals).

Oh its and its true. Its not a place of suffering where you go if your corpse isn't handle correctly, constantly plotting to draw in more people.

That's the Underworld/Labyrinth.

And then there's the Wyld.

Creation is a dark setting. It might lighten up in 3rd edition but from the bits I've seen so far I wouldn't make any bets. Now none of this is to say that Creation is darker than Godbound, but I don't agree that's not dark or significantly less so then Exalted. Exalted grim "realism" was pushed as a positive over more fanciful "immature" games like D and D.
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AsenRG

#157
March 06, 2016, 08:30:14 AM
Quote from: Nexus;883563(if you're a Solar) or kept well away (if you're practically anyone else). Its a massive gated community of the highest order that's incredibly dangerous to several of the PC types (and really only easily accessible to one).

Again, dangerous, restricted and largely off limits to most (Infernals).
Actually, you can go in either place. Provided you're an Eclipse, Eclipse-equivalent, or you can get one of those to make you part of its "embassy". You'll be safe until and unless someone provokes you to start violence, at which point you forfeit the protection of the ancient oaths.
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QuoteCreation is a dark setting. It might lighten up in 3rd edition but from the bits I've seen so far I wouldn't make any bets. Now none of this is to say that Creation is darker than Godbound, but I don't agree that's not dark or significantly less so then Exalted. Exalted grim "realism" was pushed as a positive over more fanciful "immature" games like D and D.
No discussion on that account, just wanted to mention that there is a workaround;).
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Spinachcat

#158
March 07, 2016, 02:19:30 AM
I'm an Exalted 1e fan and based on the Godbound setting stuff I've read, I am can see why people would see Godbound as grimdarkier.

Looking forward to more Godbound reading this week.

Nexus

#159
March 07, 2016, 04:03:55 AM
Quote from: Spinachcat;883760I'm an Exalted 1e fan and based on the Godbound setting stuff I've read, I am can see why people would see Godbound as grimdarkier.

Early 1st edition I'll give you that one. Later/End Stage 1st, 2nd and what I've seen of third though is a different story (IMO and all that).
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crkrueger

#160
March 07, 2016, 06:25:28 PM
A layman's opinion...

Godbound: Dark
Exalted (past 1st): Edgy, oh so very Edgy, and let's throw in Transgressive
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Mostlyjoe

#161
March 08, 2016, 01:46:23 PM
Well, while the setting is indeed dark it is heavily implied that the PCs can do something about that. And more importantly, there are in game mechanics on how to fix things. I find that refreshing!

Spinachcat

#162
March 08, 2016, 04:06:10 PM
I can't speak for current Exalted. I love the original ideas from the core book, but I certainly can't / don't / won't follow where its apparently gone.

One thing I loved from Exalted 1e was how the Solars are really disasters. Too much power with too much passion and too much ego - great tragic figures. It's completely understandable why the Dragon Blooded would want to kill them and keep them dead.

I can see GMs having the same fun with Godbound OR going with the God Hero concept to restore the world and making campaigns about fixing the world for the better.

crkrueger

#163
March 08, 2016, 04:28:12 PM Last Edit: March 08, 2016, 04:30:39 PM by CRKrueger
Quote from: Spinachcat;884050I can't speak for current Exalted. I love the original ideas from the core book, but I certainly can't / don't / won't follow where its apparently gone.

One thing I loved from Exalted 1e was how the Solars are really disasters. Too much power with too much passion and too much ego - great tragic figures. It's completely understandable why the Dragon Blooded would want to kill them and keep them dead.

I can see GMs having the same fun with Godbound OR going with the God Hero concept to restore the world and making campaigns about fixing the world for the better.

You mean a White Wolf game would give Game Designers and Story Writers precedence and give you a shitshow you can't effect really even though you're a God, while an OSR game would let you run a setting where PC Gods can actually do something besides destroy the world further...do tell. :hmm:

I keed all my Exalted brothers...kind of. :D

You fuckers are actually getting me to think of taking a look at a god game.  I can't believe it.
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Isuldur is a badass because he stopped Sauron with a broken sword, but Iluvatar is the badass because he stopped Sauron with a hobbit. -Malleus Arianorum

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Nexus

#164
March 08, 2016, 04:49:37 PM
Quote from: Spinachcat;884050One thing I loved from Exalted 1e was how the Solars are really disasters. Too much power with too much passion and too much ego - great tragic figures. It's completely understandable why the Dragon Blooded would want to kill them and keep them dead.
.

Dragonblooded fan, I take it? :)

One of the odder more amusing/frustrating things about that setting was how intense and out and out personal inter splat rivalries were. Haven't seen it quite that bad since Hunter:The Reckoning.

And they're all pretty fucked up and potentially heroic. Except Sidereals. I hate those guys :D
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 "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."
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