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Re: Yet another social combat thread - The Minimalist Approa It was a 100% inaccurate statement when wordman claimed that none of the three outcomes of a social attack had anything to do with the attacker getting what he wants. Your calling me names is unhelpful. Yes, she can spend...

Admittedly, Chaowin Registrophe's school's two pinnacles, and the ultimate pinnacle for Zu Rat Te, are the best things ever in some ways. I wouldn't pit anything below the pinnacles against solar melee though. Well... except gruesome wood king. That oughtta be an effect Dawns get somewhere...

Re: Yet another social combat thread - The Minimalist Approa Uh... you're just flat wrong. You can persuade her to have sex with you. It only takes a scene to have sex, so that falls right under "compel one scene of behavior." Unless it's epic sex. Then you can, I guess, build an intimacy of...

Re: Yet another social combat thread - The Minimalist Approa Repeated reminder - according to the actual rules, unless modified by house rules, the task to be resolved is compelling one of the following: an action taking up to one scene, a change of intimacy by one level, or the expenditure of...

Re: Yet another social combat thread - The Minimalist Approa In Task Resolution, how Exalted does everything, Baker notes that the stakes are "succeed/fail," and states a preference for "win/lose" stakes (conflict resolution), where you can't get a "good" roll but still not get what you were...

http://www.caught.net/innoc.htm as an example - It isn't the judges' fault, in most cases. False convictions are most often due to misconduct on the police/prosecution side. False acquittals are usually due to defense misconduct. That's what the statistics show, if you examine more closely.

Re: Yet another social combat thread - The Minimalist Approa You are taking my statement about the girl example out of context, it was intended to refer to natural mental influence. Natural mental influence doesn't do that. Regardless, I'm glad we've come to an agreed good idea with the...

I'm comfortable with shared storytelling, but there's a reason it's not the norm for my group - and it's the same reason some of us are better GMs than others. What you see as antagonistic, I see as division of labor. They handle describing their characters and actions and I handle the world and...

Though I'm inclined to take the setting as it is Mr. S., I do sympathize. I tend to prefer players not be Abyssals, though there are a narrow few concepts I can enjoy. Unlike Infernals, who should never have been written up as PCs, with half their fluff contradicting the other half.

For Solars, it ought to link to Virtues. Their patron is about two things: virtues, and perfection. This is about flaws in perfection, so if it's not about Virtues, it isn't much about virtues. For other exalts, maybe less so, but Sids and Lunars are still pretty virtue-based. Lunars because...

You can form an intimacy to anybody you want within a day, thus ensuring you'll always have a perfect against that guy you hate. You are now the equal of the perfect monk, because both of you could be swayed from your paths by a social-fu master. Also, remember that you can have up to two...

As I see it, the main problem to be addressed here is the samey-sameness of the flaws. To fix this, they ought to be more like Virtue Flaws for limit break, with multiple options for each virtue. Some along the lines of "in this situation, you can't use your PD," and others along the lines of...

Too many dice for your tastes: do what L5R does and cap dice pools at a level you like (L5R does it at 10), then make everything above convert to automatic successes at a certain rate (say 1 per 3 dice, unless improved with charms). On perfects: I admit that I absolutely love the...

Re: Yet another social combat thread - The Minimalist Approa Azure Abacus Meditation: pay a willpower to be able to defend against this attack. I don't think it should be within my power to do what you describe with the little girl. The deathknight with 0 appearance would only scar her for...

Re: Yet another social combat thread - The Minimalist Approa My simple fix for intimacies is to tie them to virtues, thus making them binding. You've got a valor-related ideal, you have to fail a valor check or suppress valor to act against it, etc. However, the Exalted 2e core book does...

Re: Yet another social combat thread - The Minimalist Approa Successful social attacks can, according to the core book: "reduce one existing Intimacy by a point and/or increase a new or growing Intimacy by one point." Reading the whole section reveals that the net change in an intimacy can...

Re: Yet another social combat thread - The Minimalist Approa I believe I already covered that.

Re: Yet another social combat thread - The Minimalist Approa You have Exalts/gods/etc. who aren't plot-important? :?:

Re: Yet another social combat thread - The Minimalist Approa Your NPCs lack stunts? I have my players vote on awarding them to me so it's fair, but unless they're mortals, mine get stunts just fine. I think natural influence has some teeth, but no meat to sink those teeth into. That is...