well if a deathlord has 10 solar essenses he CAN choose which one he gives to which person... but the idea of a lowly uber powerful solar ghost unmaking the work of the sun himself is just goofy
one change that i've made is to allow lunars to combo lunar charms and martial arts charms freely
the book suggests that lunar charms dont combo with martial arts but this doesnt make any sense. a truly protean shapeshifter would be a martial arts badass second only to Sidereals
think about...
using called shots against the characters is a good tactic if one of the players starts to get out of hand with it-
if your players pop one too many heads I reccomend taking their hand or foot- possibly an eye
theyll have to decide later wether theyre going to try and find someone to regrow...
Burning Palm-
getting hit with it once can be good for the story but as a player, the second time the GM hit the same character with rune of singuler hate i would put my character sheet away, pretend that those words were never spoken, and leave.
who cares if the rules allow it... lame is lame
Has no one mentioned 'Fist of the North Star'?
go watch the old animated version of Fist of the North Star that movie is an hour and a half of pure Exalted-
I read charm descriptions (such as Blade of the Battle Maiden) all the time and am constantly reminded thet alot of the best Ideas of...
Actually its kinda cool...
well he knows he can never have that spell used on him again hes got that goin for him
besides maybe he can get his stuff back by some weird quest deep into the recesses of the characters soul ( you could let the player play some diety-perhaps the one that allows...
2 more ideas for you
1 prizm stone- this stone refracts light around a character allowing him to cast visual illusions around himself like a cloak. This is ONLY a visual effect but within its limits its very powerful make a manipulation+occult- this is the result needed on an opposed roll (...
the first thing that comes to mind is Anteus from greek myth-
perhaps the stone gives regeneration (a la lunar) to the person attuned as long as they have their feet on the ground like Anteus
or perhaps it has the same armor statistics as super heavy plate but it counts as 'natural' so you...
well I know some folks dont like these but I think for me its a tie between Courtesan and Reighteous Devil- i think these 2 really define martial arts in this game and are good examples to anyone trying to make your own style- it really shows martial arts in exalted as not about Karate chops and...
Arthemis Rex...er... I am kinda loosley based on Alexander the Great and Roman general named Ambrosius all that greek imagery has been really useful to me and I highly reccomend looking to this and other Mythos as a source of inspiration whether you use a shield of not
the core book talks about how artifact shields are especially rare and almost all of them are artifact 4 or 5
this is because its a bad idea to make a weak artifact and use it to soak damage- shields get destroyed- big suprise
the book suggests these high artifact shields generally have...
dont get me wrong i love the game but there are a few things that needed tweaking from the original core-
first of all is the Solar anima abilities which are totally diminutive
eg twilights can spend 5 motes and soak a couple damage points while no moons can spend 5 and then subtract that...
i would still use 10 as the flat max for exalts-
besides unless you raise your essense every time you play or you play a game that lasts years and years youll never get to 10 anyway
regardless of experience costs it should be exponentailly harder and more time consuming to raise your essense...
i dont think there would generally be direct effects of a city god -think esoteric luck, salvation from some cataclysm- that kind of thing
IF the city god intervines it is generally because the people of that city give him worship or tribute or buth and a citygod without a city has no job...
my idea is that gold was used in the 1st age under the solar deliberative and would have been used extensively by them both as currency and for any Unconquered Sun related objects that were not orichalcum artifacts
like the golden candlesticks and chandaliers mirror frames and staues of solar...
the 2 exaltations are completely unrealted- when a sidereal dies his fellows use astrology to determine when a given soul will 'emerge from the tapestry' and other details this can be any length of time the maidens prefer but we have no reason to believe it is always 'instant' but it seems it...
the highest essense for an exalt ive seen is 9 although I imagine some 1st age solars reached ten-
regardless of experience I think 10 is the flat mixumum for such a trait in exalted as it is in all other white wolf games although there appear to be beings in exalted who exeed this like say...
In Defense of Reiteous Devil
I wanted to say they the 2 styles you mentioned are 2 of my favorites of the game-
thgese 2 styles are reflections of the games inspiration.
Anime Courtesan style is from Ninja Scroll it is one of the abilites used by the poison taster ( name?) of the Koga...