The End is Nigh(Exalted 2.5)

[The Dark Wizard]

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“YOU WHO HAVE ALL MOCKED ME, BELITTLED ME, CHEAPENED MY EFFORTS AND DESTROYED MY CREATIONS. YOU WHO HAVE BEEN BROUGHT DOWN AND MADE HUMBLE BY THE MOST FRAGILE OF MY CREATIONS, STRIPPED OF YOUR ALMIGHTY POWERS, TWISTED AND BROKEN INTO PALE SHADOWS OF YOURSELVES, BROODING ON THE EDGE OF OBLIVION AND SPITTING BILE AND UNREQUITED RAGE AT THE KINGDOMS OF YOUR SLAYERS. HOW LOW YOU HAVE FALLEN, HOW FEEBLE YOU HAVE BECOME THAT YOU LIE WITHIN YOUR RUINED AND ROTTEN REMAINS, IMMOBILE, IMPOTENT, PATHETIC AND BENEATH MY CONTEMPT. GAZE UPON ME AND BE AWED FOR I AM THE ENGINE OF EXTINCTION, UNMAKER OF ALL THINGS AND TRUE MASTER OF DESTRUCTION. WHERE YOU ARE STATIC, I AM MOBILE; THE BETTER TO BRING AN END TO ALL THAT EXIST. WHERE YOU ARE IMPOTENT IN YOUR INTENT TO DRAW DOWN CREATION, I AM INFUSED WITH THE POWER OF THE VOID; AND I SHALL SPREAD ITS INFLUENCE ACROSS ALL THAT IS UNTIL IT IS NO MORE. COWER IN YOUR CRYPTS, PETTY NEVERBORN, AND GNAW ON YOUR IMMORTAL BONES AS I FORGE ACROSS CREATION, HEAVEN AND THE UNDERWORLD TO RECLAIM THAT WHICH YOU LACK BOTH WIT AND WILL TO GRASP FOR YOURSELVES, FOR THE END IS NIGH.”


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Maybe a chat game, maybe a forum game. I don't know what I want to do yet, I just got inspired. Thanks to captain for helping make his speech even more awesome.


I would allow all exalted types even alchemicals, expect maybe Dragon Blooded because they fall short compared to everyone else. I have many ideas for this setting but I don't know if I want to spoil just yet.


Post below if you are interested. What type of game you'd like etc.

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Age:


Caste:


History:


Appearance:


Scroll of Errata character generation rules. The Scroll of Errata takes precedent over the core book.


But to compromise here are my custom houserules.






All Craft abilities are now a single Craft. This means that Craft grants equal aptitude with blacksmithing, agriculture, architecture etc.


When rolling Craft for Esoteric crafts, they are limited by a single other ability, listed below:


Magitech: Lore


Genesis: Medicine


Fate: Occult


Glamour: Occult


Crafting small items roll Perception, crafting large items roll Intelligence


Every purchase of a charm in a tree grants a free Excellency from that tree. Charms that require Excellencies as prerequisites still require excellencies.


Infernals get the excellency of either their Caste or Favored Yozi for free, and get the second-excellency equivalent as well. If they get a Shintai charm for another Yozi, they get the first and second excellency for free (or refunded if they already have it for that yozi)


Alchemicals get Free Augmentations with the 3rd 4th and 5th dot of attributes. For the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Augmentations gained in this manner only have zero mote installation cost and are permanently installed - they do not take up a charm slot


Backgrounds not purchased at character creation may only be acquired through roleplaying. Backgrounds gained in play default to being Free Backgrounds. Free Backgrounds are subject to the whims of the story and can be lost easily. At any time, the player can spend 3xp per dot to make them Fixed Backgrounds. Fixed Backgrounds, while not immutable, possess a degree of protection against plot events and will typically not be lost easily.


The following charms grant a single free Ox-Body purchase, capped by your Essence. All Ox-Body purchases are capped by Essence rather than the old limit. Hardy charms either grant a single ox-body OR an excellency, chosen when the charm is taken.


SOLARS:


Body-Mending Meditation


Soul-Fire Resurgence


Rising Sun Renewal


Inner Fire Unleashed


Final Ray of Light


Unbreakable Warrior's Mastery


Enduring Mountain Method


Immunity To Everything Technique


Tireless Sentinel Technique


Essence-Gathering Temper


Invinciple Essence Reinforcement


Durability of Oak Meditation


Spirit Strengthens the Skin


Iron Skin Concentration


Iron Kettle Body


Adamant Skin Technique


Hardship-Surviving Mendicant Spirit


Element-Resisting Prana


Eternal Elemental Harmony


ABYSSALS:


Restless As The Dead


Corpse Needs No Food


Breathless Ghost Emulation


Cadaverous Torpor Technique


Plague Knows Its Master


Injury-Absorbing Discipline


Spirit-Hardened Frame


Wounds Mean Nothing


Maelstrom-Weathering Indifference


World-Denying Invincibility


Plague-Eating Kiss


Black Heart's Venom


ALCHEMICALS:


Pain Suppression Nodes


Subcutaneous/Exoskeletal Armor Plating (any and all installments)


Transitory Invulnerability Engine


Essence Shield Projector


Alloyed Reinforcement of Flesh


Body-Reweaving Matrix


Bodily Integrity Field


Aegis Integration System


Enshrined Divinity Apparatus


Industrial Survival Frame (any and all installments)


Biofunction Inhibitor


Sustenance Replication Engine


MALFEAS:


By Pain Reforged


Nightmare Fugue Vigilance


By Agony Empowered


The King Still Stands


Driven Beyond Death


By Hunger Nourished


Blight Internalization Transcendence


By Rage Recast


Devil-Tyrant Avatar Shintai


Invulnerable Wounding Futility


Abalation of Brass and Fire


Scar-Writ Saga Shield


Viridian Legend Exoskeleton


Demon Emperor Shintai


Skyfire-Seizing Repast


Sun-Heart Furnace Soul


Rage-Stoked Inferno Soul


SHE WHO LIVES IN HER NAME:


Ego-Infused Pattern Primacy (including each repurchase)


Wholeness Rightly Assumed (including each repurchase)


Force-Suppression Barrier


Heuristic Logos Shintai


CECELYNE:


Transcendant Desert Creature


Soul-Sand Devil Shintai


ADORJAN:


Unbound Freedom Infiltration


Splintered Gale Shintai


Running To Forever


Murder Is Meat


Sacred Kamilla's Inhalation


Hateful Wretched Noise


KIMBERY:


Mother Sea Mastery


Fathomless Poison Haven


Tidal Renewal Discipline


Sea Dissolves Herself


Sea Within Veins Prana


Great Mother's Tears


All-Devouring Depths Shintai


Bitter Heart Unbleeding


LUNARS:


Bruise-Relief Method


Halting the Scarlet Flow


Purging the Tarnish Silver


Indestructible Recursive Design


Steadfast Yeddim Meditation


Luna's Fortitude


Unstoppable Juggernaut Incarnation


Scorpion and Toad Absolution


Scorpion and Toad Immunity


Scorpion and Toad Mastery


Hide-Toughening Essence


Frenzied Bear Fortification


Armor-Forming Technique


Weapon-Trapping Body Dominion


Stone Rhino's Skin


Invulnerable Moonsilver Carapace


Native Son's Grace


(Direction) Mastery Technique


External Hide Perfection


DRAGON-BLOODED:


Uneating Earth Meditation


Unbreathing Earth Meditation


Unfeeling Earth Meditation


Impervious Skin of Stone Meditation


(Element) Protection Form (all purchases stack)


Perfected Scales of the Dragon


Unsleeping Earth Meditation


Untiring Earth Meditation


SIDEREALS:


Unswerving Juggernaut Principle


Forward-Thinking Technique


Optimistic Security Practice


Unwavering Well-Being


Heartless Maiden Trance


One Direction Invocation


Someone Else's Destiny


Shield of Destiny


Storm Eye's Stance


Burn Life


RAKSHA:


Bastion of the Self


Writhing Ego Invasion


Adaptation to Adversity


Twisting Serpent Shape


Opalescent Gossamer Raiment


Blade-Turning Skin


Inviolable Presence


Dream-Sacrificing Method


Sundering the Gates of Death


MOUNTAIN FOLK:


Essence Satiation Method


Stone-Still Lungs


Sleepless Rock Emulation


Eternal Jade Rejuvenation


(Color) Jade Transformation


Fivefold Embodiment of (Color) Jade


Living Jewel Armor






All XP costs are replaced by the below chart (thanks to Sojiko for developing it). These costs are static, except for Essence, meaning they do NOT rely on the current rating.


XP Costs (Unfavored/Favored)


* Attribute : 8/6 XP


* Ability : 4/3 XP


* Specialty : 2/1 XP


* Native-level Magics : 10/8 XP (includes Charms and spells)


* Superior Magics : 12/10 XP (includes mortals learning TMA and TCS, or Db learning CMAs)


* Other Magic : 9 XP (includes heretical Charms, Infernal spells, and Knacks)


* Essence : Rating × 8 XP


* Virtue : 3 XP


* Willpower : 3 XP


* Colleges: 4/2 XP


* Thaumaturgy Degree 6/4 XP (or 3/2 BP at chargen)


-ALCHEMICALS ONLY-


Charm: 4xp


Dedicated Slot: 4xp


General Slot: 2xp


Upgrade: 2xp


General Slot: 6xp*


that way, a charm+Favored slot is 8xp and charm+Unfavored slot is 10xp, just like Solars


Also since this is a mixed game, everyone should use even if your a non solar, solar bp costs.


Ok I'm going to be quite honest here. I typically don't like Lunars, so lets try Terrifying Argent Witches..http://forums.white-wolf.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=68517


Also for those of you with Wyld Shaping spells, follow this: http://forums.white-wolf.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=45846


Let me know what you all think!


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[Sherwood]

I would love a game with an Alchemical. I've made up a character for a game that never took off, and it was a disappointment. I really liked that character.

 

[Captain Hesperus]

I may be able to play, RealLife™ commitments notwithstanding...


Captain Hesperus

 

[The Dark Wizard]

I would love a game with an Alchemical. I've made up a character for a game that never took off, and it was a disappointment. I really liked that character.

When Autobot died, those that did not go along with him fell into Creation, so alchemicals can easily fit. I've also wanted to see alchemicals for a while.

 

[The Dark Wizard]

I'm thinking maybe possibly a forum game that way we can have all the different groups in real time. This idea I had involves many plots going off at the same time.

 

[Sherwood]

[QUOTE="The Dark Wizard]When Autobot died, those that did not go along with him fell into Creation, so alchemicals can easily fit. I've also wanted to see alchemicals for a while.

[/QUOTE]
Then color me interested. Is this going to be a classic Exalted game, or a different setting using the material from Shards?

 

[The Dark Wizard]

Then color me interested. Is this going to be a classic Exalted game, or a different setting using the material from Shards?

Classic Exalted, I had a really popular concept a while back with the shards book, labled my Party Series, and I already finished that in private as a test of my DMing skills for Exalted.

 

[Cirno]

Ooh. I'm all for any setting one of my abandoned Exalted characters can romp around. If it's a chat game, I'm limited in availability to weekends. Prefer mix of social and action.

 

[The Dark Wizard]

I really dislike combat in Exalted, that is why I have not tired it in a while. I love the lore and everything else. I've been told I'm a great Storyteller when it comes to Exalted but I've also had some people tell me that I'm not their cup of tea because I won't have combat every single time. I make people work and actually submit bios instead of just stats, I love storytelling and the fluff behind it.


I mean come on Autobot just died is a goddamn train of death and is ramming into other neverborn and just strolling around the underworld. I think that is really cool .

 

[Sherwood]

I would prefer a PbP game over chat, but that is my input. I don't always have availability to be on at a specific time of day.


Any thought on character creation? Any special rules that we should know about, or is this too early to go there?

 

[The Dark Wizard]

I would prefer a PbP game over chat, but that is my input. I don't always have availability to be on at a specific time of day.
Any thought on character creation? Any special rules that we should know about, or is this too early to go there?

A bit too early, I have some really awesome custom creation rules some where that I've allowed many other start up exalted games use. I forgot where I put them, most likely use those. Not sure, want to see who is interested first .

 

[Feantari]

I would be interested in a PbP game, its too hard for me to schedule regular games around RL. I've been up to my ears in DB of late (and loving it!) but I'd be up for trying something different. :-P

 

[The Dark Wizard]

Does anyone like the fact that Autobot is an evil train of death ?


And the game will be PbP like 99 percent chance most likely.

 

[Lord-Leafar]

Count me interested, I usually prefer a chat game over PbP, but I don't mind either choice.

 

[Cirno]

I think I just like the excuse to go mad-stunting that action scenarios offer. If it's more social or the action's more freeform/diceless I'm perfectly fine with that. Also underworld means I could bring out my dirgesinger mortician.

 

[Lord-Leafar]

I'm in no way deterred by a social focused game, I might come up with one or two interesting Abyssal concepts that have been playing in my mind.

 

[Seeker of the End]

I'm in! Oh and by the way, is that the train from Madness returns? I'm going to have a solar martial artist. The fifth style of even blade may or may not be present.

 

[Grey]

Tempting...

 

[Xaantiaz]

This sounds terribly interesting. I've always wondered how adding new Neverborn would effect the status quo. And who doesn't like a train of death forged from Soulsteel? Count me interested.

 

[shepsquared]

I am definitely interested. I'll probably go a solar or infernal. Does autobot as a neverborn mean that the viator won?

 

[Myllinnia]

No, Viator doesn't kill auto, he turns Auto into 'Killing Auto' and siccs him on everything living, Priority on the Yozi.


I am interested in playing likely an angsty Adamant or maybe an infernal. I never did think that Engine of Destruction was a train but now that it has been said I cannot unthink it. Its a cool thing imo. ^^

 

[The Dark Wizard]

I wanted a chat game orginially but I'm too busy to do have a set meet time, I need to have my weekends open for projects and only projects, and the ocastional going out, but those don't happen every single weekend so it still leaves them open if something suddenly happens.


Doing it PbP I realized would allow us to do what I wanted which was have the game in multiple locations. Obviously Yu-Shan is doing things, same with creation, the yozis, the underworld, etc.


If we get enough players I can even allow you all to pick where you want to go.

 

[Arynne]

Ooh, this sounds very cool. Color me interested.


So does this mean Autobot is now the Soul Train? Groovy!

 

[The Dark Wizard]

Ooh, this sounds very cool. Color me interested.
So does this mean Autobot is now the Soul Train? Groovy!

I c wut u did thur

 

[Seeker of the End]

Nah, less of soul train and more howling Atomic bomb in wheels