Exalted 3e - Southbound

[Eternal Alchemist]

Got it, alright as usual if any questions, just let me know.

 

[Red Shadow Claws]

This is still a work in progress, I think I still have one BP to spend, and one Charm to choose, IIRC.
Am considering making an Evocation for Wood Dragon's Claw.

Spoiler

• Attributes and Abilities
• Merits
• Charms
• Martial Arts
• Sorcery
• Panoply
• Combat Stats
• Experience

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  Name: Emerald Lily
  Age: 35
  Gender: Female
  Exalt Type: Solar
  Caste: Twilight
  Supernal: Medicine
  
  Attributes
  Str: 2
  Dex: 4
  Sta: 3
  
  Cha: 3
  Man: 2
  App: 2
  
  Per: 3
  Int: 5
  Wits: 3
  
  Abilities
  Archery
  *Athletics: 2
  Awareness: 1
  *Brawl: 1
  Bureaucracy
  *Craft (Alchemy): 3 (Medicine)
  *Dodge: 3
  *Integrity: 1
  Investigation:
  Larceny:
  Linguistics:
  *Lore: 3
  *Martial Arts (Wood Dragon Style): 3 (Wood Dragon's Claw)
  *Medicine: 5 (Healing Wounds)
  Melee
  *Occult: 3 - (Wood Dragon's Claw)
  Performance
  Presence
  *Resistance: 4
  Ride:
  Sail:
  Socialize:
  Stealth:
  *Survival: 3
  Thrown:
  War:
  
  
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  Martial Arts: 4
  Artifact - Hearthstone Bracers: 2
  Language - Old Realm: 1
  Manse - The Purity Gem: 3
  Direction Sense: 1
  Toxin Resistance: 3
  Ever-Blossoming Mastery: 2
  
  Spoiler

  When the sorcerer casts a spell that creates or manipulates plants, wood, or associated spirits, its cost is lowered by three sorcerous motes. If it’s her control spell, she may waive one point of Willpower from its cost once per day.
  Esoteric Botany: 3
  
  Spoiler

  Once per week, the sorcerer may add (Occult) Charm dice on a Survival roll to forage for plants, a Lore roll to introduce facts about them, or a Craft roll to create medicines, poisons, or similar substances from them.
  
  
  
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  Athletics Charms
  Monkey Leap Technique
  
  Craft Charms
  Craftsman Needs No Tools
  
  Dodge Charms
  Reed in the Wind
  
  Lore Charms
  Essence-Lending Method
  
  Medicine Charms
  Wound-Mending Care Technique
  Flawless Diagnosis Technique
  Wound-Cleansing Meditation
  Master Chirurgen Meditation
  Benison of Celestial Healing
  Life-Sculpting Hands Technique
  
  Occult Charms
  Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
  
  Resistance Charms
  Ox-Body Technique
  Body-Mending Meditation
  
  Survival Charms
  Food-Gathering Exercise
  
  
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  Wood Dragon Style
  The most esoteric of the Immaculate Dragon styles, Wood Dragon oversees the cycles of life and death. Its students undergo grueling regimens that bring them to the edge of death, fasting to their bodies’ limits while consuming copious quantities of hallucinogenic and entheogenic drugs. When they return to the world of the living, they bring mysterious insight with them. In battle, these mystics draw on an extensive knowledge of pressure points and Essence flows to both subdue foes and heal allies. Masters of the style are rumored to possess a technique that can bring instant death, destroying the soul itself.
  
  Wood Dragon Weapons: Wood Dragon unarmed attacks are precise finger jabs targeting pressure points and nerve clusters. The style also uses the staff. Wood Dragon stylists train in wielding the long bow as a close-range weapon, using the traits of a staff. Wood Dragon style can’t be used through ranged attacks made with a bow, but the Immaculate doesn’t need a ready weapon action to change between using a bow as a ranged weapon and wielding it as a staff.
  
  Armor: This style is compatible with light armor.
  
  Complementary Abilities: Occult is necessary to battle spirits, while Performance is used to distract and misdirect.
  
  
  Spoiler: Wood Dragon Vitality

  Cost: 5m; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 1
  Type: Reflexive
  Keywords: Dual, Wood
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: None
  At one with the font of all life in Creation, the Immaculate suffuses her body with unyielding vitality. She adds (Martial Arts) natural soak against a withering attack, or subtracts one die from the damage of a decisive attack.
  In Wood Aura, the Immaculate adds (Essence + Martial Arts) soak, or subtracts (Essence/2, rounded up) dice of decisive damage.
  Eyes of the Wood Dragon
  Mind-Over-Body Meditation
  Soul-Marking Style
  Wood Dragon Form
  Spirit-Wracking Method
  Death-Pattern-Sensing Attitude
  Spirit-Rending Technique
  Unbreakable Fascination Kata
  Enthralling Blow Attack
  Wood Dragon Succor
  Soul Mastery
  
  
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  Root Lore
  There is a language in the world’s trees, herbs, and flowers, each teaching subtle lessons that reveal Creation’s deepest mysteries. Not every herbalist and apothecary can divine these secret lessons; initiation into sorcerous root-lore requires both slow, careful study of Creation’s flora and a piercing insight into the truths behind them. Those who walk this path read secret wisdom from the petals of flowers, and draw power from roots and herbs.
  
  Shaping Ritual
  Master Apothecary Enlightenment: A successful Lore roll to introduce a fact about herbs or Medicine roll to treat a patient using herbal medicine awards the sorcerer (Intelligence + extra successes) sorcerous motes, which last until the story ends. Completing a basic or major crafting project to create a medicine, drug, poison, or similar compound from plants grants (Intelligence + silver points awarded + [gold points awarded x 2]) sorcerous motes, which last until the story ends. The sorcerer can only have sorcerous motes from one use of this ritual at a time; if she wishes to accept more, she must give up any from previous uses.
  
  
  Spoiler: Wood Dragon's Claw - Control Spell

  Cost: 5sm, 1wp
  Keywords: None
  Duration: Until dismissed
  The sorcerer transforms her hands into huge, gnarled claws of thorny oak, like those of the majestic elemental dragons of wood. Slashing with these claws uses the traits of a light artifact weapon with the same tags as an unarmed attack, save that its damage tag is lethal rather than bashing. They are compatible with Martial Arts styles that use claw-type weapons or rending strikes, such as Tiger style. They render the sorcerer’s hands incapable of fine manipulation such as writing, wielding a weapon, or turning a doorknob.
  In addition, characters with an Essence pool gain access to the following powers while this spell is active:
  • Bramble Hell Torment (10m; Simple; Instant; Decisive-only): When the sorcerer makes a decisive savaging attack against a clinched enemy, her claws explode into impaling spikes, adding (Essence) successes to the damage roll. This power can only be used once per grapple.
  • Living Thorn Transformation (3m; Reflexive; Instant): Warping and twisting her claws, the sorcerer may grant them the tag of her choice for the rest of the scene. She might extend them into a lash of scourging brambles to grant them the flexible tag, reshape them into a bludgeoning club-fists to grant them the smashing tag, or similar. Only one tag can be granted by this power at a time.
  A sorcerer who knows Wood Dragon’s Claws as her control spell may create and master Evocations for the claws, which can only be used while this spell is active.
  Distortion (Goal Number: 12): Distorting the Wood Dragon’s Claws causes them to begin growing wildly, engulfing the enemy sorcerer’s arms in a tangle of twisting roots. He cannot take any actions that require the use of his arms, including attacking, until he has succeeded on an extended (Strength + Athletics) roll (difficulty: 2; interval: one round; goal number: 10) to break free of this entanglement. If he is grappling an enemy when the distortion occurs, the distraction of his own spell turning on him allows that character to reflexively break free. The spell cannot be dismissed while it is distorted.
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  Hearthstone Bracers
  
  
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  Health Levels
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  -4 [ ]
  I [ ]
  
  Essence: 1
  Personal 13
  Peripheral: 33 / 32
  Committed: 1
  Willpower: 6
  
  Join Battle: 5
  
  Parry: 6
  Evasion: 4
  Guile: 1
  Resolve: 2
  
  Soak
  Natural: 3
  Armor: 0
  Hardness: 0
  
  Wood Dragon's Claw
  Type: Light (+5 ACC, +10 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 3)
  Tags: Lethal, Melee
  
  
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  Character Advancement
  Attribute increase - current rating x4
  Non-Caste, Non-Favored Ability increase - current rating x2
  Caste/Favored Ability increase - (current rating x2) − 1
  New Ability - 3
  Specialty - 3
  Purchased Merit - new rating x3
  Willpower - 8
  Charm - 10 (8 if Caste/Favored)
  Martial Arts Charm - 10 (8 if Brawl is Caste/Favored)
  Spell - 10 (8 if Occult is Caste/Favored)
  Evocation - 10
  
  Bonus Point Expenditure
  Abilities - 4
  Backgrounds - 9
  Willpower - 2
  
  

 

[Eternal Alchemist]

going all in on the Wood element theme, that's pretty cool.

 

[Red Shadow Claws]

Found these on the Onyx Path Forum:

Wood Dragon's Claws Evocations

The Living Well
Cost: - Mins: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Variable
Prerequisite Charms: none

The Wood Dragon is a wellspring of living essence. The Wood Dragon's Claws can store up to 10 motes of essence inside them. This external essence pool starts off empty. It can only be filled using the evocations of the Wood dragon's claws that steal essence from opponents. The essence stored can only be used for the Wood Dragon's Claws' evocations, Bramble Hell Torment and Living Thorn Transformation. The claws always have this power as long as it is a control spell though most sorcerers never realize this. The motes in this pool fade at the rate of one mote per hour and are lost if Wood Dragon's Claws is disrupted or dismissed.

Drawing from the Enemy's Pain
Cost: 1wp, 2i Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: The Living Well

The Wood Dragon draws power from his enemy's pain for only with pain do you know you are alive. When the wielder of Wood Dragon's Claws makes a Decisive attack they may pay one willpower and two initiative to activate this charm. If the attack does damage and increases the enemy's wound penalty then the Living Well gains a number of motes equal to the new wound penalty. If an enemy is incapacitated by this attack then add five motes to the Living Well. This evocation cannot be used in conjunction with Drawing from the Enemy's Power.
For example; The Solar exalted Dramatic Irony attacks an opponent with Wood Dragon's Claws. Before the player rolls they must pay a willpower and activate the charm. If Dramatic Irony doesn't hit his opponent then nothing happens and the charm is wasted. If he does hit but doesn't do enough damage to raise the enemy's wound penalty then nothing happens and the charm is wasted. If he hit and raises the wound penalty from say; 0 to -2, then the Living Well would gain 2 motes.

Special Activation Rules: This Evocation cannot be purchased with experience. It awakens automatically after the wielder of Wood Dragon's Claws kills an enemy that is stronger (both Strength and Stamina) than them in single combat.

Drawing from the Enemy's Power
Cost: 1wp, 2i Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: The Living Well

The living essence pervades all things. If it is available to an enemy then it is available to the Wood Dragon. The wielder of Wood Dragon's Claws makes a Decisive gambit and they pay one willpower and two initiative to activate this charm. If the attack is successful then the wielder rolls their (Essence + Willpower) against the enemy's Resolve. This charm drains one mote of essence from the enemy's essence pool for every success that exceeds the enemy's Resolve. Any successes after all the enemy's essence is drained are lost. For every two motes drained one mote is added to the Living Well. This evocation cannot be used in conjunction with Drawing from the Enemy's Pain.

Special Activation Rules: This Evocation cannot be purchased with experience. It awakens automatically after the wielder of Wood Dragon's Claws kills an enemy of a higher Essence level in single combat.

Wood Dragon's Guard
Cost: 1m Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: One Turn
Prerequisite Charms: Drawing from the Enemy's Pain, Drawing from the Enemy's Power

The Wood Dragon's Claws can stop an attack with the power of the Great Dragon. The wielder can use this evocation to increase the defense of the Wood Dragon's Claws by two for one turn.

Armor of Thorns
Cost: 4m (1lhl) Mins: Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Counterattack, Withering-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Wood Dragon's Guard, Bramble Hell Torment

The Wood Dragon's Claws protect the wielder by sending out thorns from the Exalt's body. When an opponent successfully attacks the Exalt with any kind of a close-range attack, even one that does no damage, this evocation allows the Exalt to roll their (Essence). They then apply any successes as Withering damage.

Special Activation Rules: A sorcerer may unlock this evocation by either being Exalted and purchasing it with xp or by blocking an attack that still knocks them back at least two range bands. If the wielder is not Exalted then they must pay an additional one lethal health level to use this evocation.

Flowing Thorn Reformation
Cost: 10m, 1wp (1 lhl) Mins: Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: none
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Wood Dragon's Guard, Living Thorn Transformation

This evocation improves Living Thorn Transformation allowing the Exalt to change the nature of Wood Dragon's Claws at will. Once per turn the wielder can add and/or remove up to (Essence) tags to/from Wood Dragon's Claws. In addition, the Exalt may rearrange up to (Essence/2 rounded up) points of Accuracy and Damage for the Claws.

Special Activation Rules: A sorcerer may unlock this evocation by either being Exalted and purchasing it with xp or by using Wood Dragon's Claws to perform a gambit at at least one range band away. If the wielder is not Exalted then they must pay an additional one lethal health level to use this evocation.

Becoming the Wood Dragon
Cost: 10m, 2wp (2 ahl) Mins: Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: none
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Armor of Thorns, Flowing Thorn Reformation

The Exalt turns into a elemental that resembles a lesser elemental dragon. The Exalted gains the following benefits;

• 14 natural Soak replaces the Exalt's soak
• Hardness of 7
• The Following attacks;
  • Attack (Bite): 11 dice (Damage 16, minimum 3)
  • Attack (Claws): 14 dice (Damage 13, minimum 1)
  • Attack (Grapple): 10 dice (11 dice to control)
• Soaring Elemental Flight: This elemental form is both tireless and graceful, capable of traveling up to a hundred miles an hour through the sky or its native element. In combat, it doubles 9s on all movement rolls and may rush enemies on the ground from two range bands above them while flying.
• Legendary Size: The Exalt's new size makes it extraordinarily difficult for human-scale enemies to engage them in combat. They takes no onslaught penalties from attacks made by smaller opponent, unless magically inflicted. Withering attacks made by smaller enemies cannot drop him below 1 Initiative unless they have a post-soak damage of 5 dice (although attackers can still gain the full amount of Initiative damage dealt). Decisive attacks made by smaller enemies cannot deal more than (3 + attacker’s Strength) levels of damage, not counting any levels of damage added by Charms or other magic.

Special Activation Rules: A sorcerer may unlock this evocation by either being Exalted and purchasing it with xp or by defeating an elemental or Behemoth that is at least three range bands in size. To use this power the sorcerer must pay an additional two aggravated health levels to use this evocation.

 

[EbonChevalier]

Lot-Casting Atemi here’s my character but she’s a work in progress

 

[Sherwood]

So, are we making progress for this game? I haven't seen any new posts for a bit and I'm hoping that we are still on.