He has to spend motes for the excelleny for each attack that it is applied too. However, peony blossom (assuming you're using the errata) is only one attack, which is then applied to multiple enemies. So he'd only have to pay once.
www.rpol.net is usually pretty good. I'm running two games myself there at the moment and playing in several more. A lot of the games tend to be "adult" though, which means you need to supply a statement of age and legality to view adult materials before you can join.
Totem animal is based entirely on personality. It is quite possible to have a shark totem and have never seen more water than a small oasis before. Of course, it's very rare to see a player choosing something like that on their character.
To start with, the pool limit is 25, not 10. I don't see allowing that to grow as actually making any real difference to the game - you're going to have a very hard time filling it anyway.
Lunar errata is going to be a long way off I feel... at the very least behind sorcery and sidereals.
As a fairly immediate fix to shapelock without really having to change anything, just create a custom charm to reduce your anima banner. We've already seen that it's valid charmtech.
The big problem with Solar Hero is that a solar wants it as a native charm tree, but is stuck following the linear makeup of a CMA tree. Let's say that you have no interest in clinching charms - you have no choice but to move through them to get to the higher up charms. With purely native...
I'm afraid that I don't see anything in that comic suggesting that her father is an exalt. I'm also incredibly dubious that her father was an abyssal: Secret seems very ashamed that she has become one.
Still, I don't think it's a big stretch to say that he likely knows full well what an...
Okay, now I'm wondering if Secret's father has had bad experiences with abyssals in life or death. Also he seems pretty knowledgeable about solars as opposed to [enter propaganda type here] - I wonder if this is knowledge from the underworld too.
http://wiki.white-wolf.com/exalted/inde ... 8p._135.29
You might want to check out the errata on Hybrid Body - even though I think the new version is broken as hell. Technically HBR is no longer limited (at all, which is silly).