Red Shadow Claws
Six Thousand Club
As a somewhat new player/ST of Exalted, I'd like to add that for myself, if I take Flaws I choose ones who I'd be comfortable role-playing, and fit my character concept, but in order to balance them I so ym best to take an equal number of Merits, so in effect I get a total of +0 BP. I'll admit that I do have a character in one of cyl's game, where I gave my character a Nightmares flaw, and then took a Hearthstone that is supposed to negate that flaw, but I talked to him about it, and let him know that the idea is that it doesn't negate the flaw, just lessens it in the Underworld.