Combat Charm Edition>What is Exalted?An epic high-flying role-playing game about reborn god-heroes in a world that turned on them.Start here:http://theonyxpath.com/category/worlds/exalted/>That sounds cool, how can I get into it?Read the 3e core book (link below). For mechanics of the old edition, play this tutorial:http://mengtzu.github.io/exalted/sakuya.htmlIt'll get you familiar with most of the mechanics.>Gosh that was fun. How do I find a group?Roll20 and the Game Finder General here on /tg/. good luck>Resources for Third Edition>3E Core and Splatshttps://www.mediafire.com/folder/b54o6teut3fx6/Exalted_3e>Errata for Third Editionhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1n3ooTmopm3CBxW5jwPp1761xsaIccea-5XIhVM_PQEc/edit>Other Ex3 Resourceshttps://pastebin.com/fG1mLMdu (embed)>Resources for Older Editionshttps://pastebin.com/BXSGuFdQ (embed)>Exalted Hacks (incl ExWoD, Demake, Quixalted)https://pastebin.com/YQ9BYUJF (embed)>Stuff that might be interestinghttps://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/the-exalted-thread-with-no-original-ideas.317216/Ongoing Campaign: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/onyx-path/exalted-essence-storyteller-s-guidePrevious thread: >>98123459>Thread Question: What is your favorite combat charm and how often do you use it?
So to deal with the four weapon skills issue that Dawns have, I did the following skill swaps among the castes.>Alternate Dawn: Melee, Archery, Athletics, Resistance, War>Zenith: Martial Arts, Presence, Performance, Integrity, Survival >Night: Thrown, Dodge, Stealth, Awareness, Larceny So now Dawns are physically oriented. As for the other roles, I didn’t have much deep reasoning. Zenith are fist fighting priests, Nights are projectile throwing ninjas.
>>98153604There's no combat in my game so I don't have a favorite combat charm
>>98153604God, I hate 3e's Jade; they made her ugly on purpose.
>>98153730Are you playing 2e? Have you checked out the Dawn keyword?
>>98153738Yeah I just found out about the “dawn solution”. I can find all that under the ink monkey book in the 2e resources page right?
>>98153604I made a homebrew of Lunars whose main theme is caste shifts based on the moon phases. So each Lunar becomes a Full Moon, then a Changing Moon, and then a No Moon and the cycle repeats. You’d create a Lunar character the following way: choose a primary attribute from each type (physical, social, mental), do same for secondary, and tertiary attributesie you’d first choose one of Strength, Dexterity, Stamina, then one of Charisma, Manipulation, or Appearance, and last one of Perception, Intelligence, or Witsspend 8, 6, 4 points on primary attributes, secondary, etcSo an example attribute spread would be: (Stamina 4, Appearance 4, Intelligence 3), (Strength 3, Charisma 3, Perception 3), (Dexterity 2, Manipulation 2, Wits 3)Choose 4 abilities for each caste Each caste has 8 abilities: Full Moon – Melee, Thrown, Athletics, Resistance, Stealth, Dodge, War, RideChanging Moon – Presence, Performance, Socialize, Linguistics, Larceny, Integrity, Awareness, Bureaucracy No Moon – Occult, Investigation, Craft, Lore, Medicine, Survival, Sail, Archery Martial Arts is special because it counts as an ability for ANY caste, but can only be picked onceIf Silver Pact, get 32 points for skills, but must have at least Martial Arts 2, Stealth 2, Survival 2 If Silver Pact, get 9 points but must take mentor 3All “normal” charms are skill-based Lunars have no skill-based excellency charms, instead have excellencies for each attribute in phaseYou choose a starting caste, then you can only choose excellencies for attributes of the current caste (ie if you’re starting as a full moon, you can only have strength/dexterity/stamina excellencies)
>>98153988So now to describe how the phase change worksBased on the moon’s phases (approximately every 10 days), Lunar’s caste will change. By default Lunar Castes correspond to current phase of the moon, but not necessarily. The Lunar caste cycle always goes full moon changing moon no moon changing moon full moon like the moon itself When phase changed, all lunar excellencies change to new excellencies based on the new caste’s attributes.By default, the new excellencies obtained are random (ie strength essence overwhelming can become manipulation essence resurgent)However, Lunars know several rites they can use to control which excellencies they get when phase changing, which have to be performed around the time of the phase change. Lunars also have a unique excellency, called essence (attribute) overlapping, which allows a lunar to replace an attribute for a roll with said attributeLunars gain limit when they stick to something for too long, or try to fix their caste and ignore the phase change (latter is considered a slight to Luna and nets A LOT of limit). In my view Lunar limit is like an alarm telling you it’s time to move on. There’s no fixed rule to how limit is gained. Maybe it’s possible to be a god king sitting on his throne for several centuries as long as your life doesn’t become too monotonous, or maybe you need to return to the murderhobo life after a week to stave off gaining limit. Lunar limit breaks cause caste to change immediately. Excellency changes from limit breaks are always random. Lunar limit breaks also causes at least one change in intimacy. Luna chooses those who undergo significant change in their lives but still manage to succeed. >Career soldier becomes a government official and manages to restore the kingdom’s economy.>Traveling artist successfully commands a town against an invasion. >Caveman induces his cannibal tribe to give up eating people and learn the fine arts.
>>98153988Stealth is more a changing moon thing, they are the shape-shifting rogue.And socialize makes more sense for social caste no moons
Now that I think about it, it is funny how no moons are actually the 3 castes in one, instead of the changing moons.Changing = Night, Full = Dawn and No = Twilight, Zenith and Eclipse.
>>98154128Well, No Moons are just Twilights, but with the gimmick of being Priests like Zeniths. Changing Moons get infiltration (night), leadership (zenith), and diplomancy (eclipse).
>>98154139They are also the keepers of lore and the ones who introduce new Lunars to the silver pact.>leadership (zenith), and diplomancy (eclipse).The leadership is more "war" like, with their raid parties.And I don't remember them being diplomatic in their 1e writer up, No Moons felt more diplomatic because they oversaw the social rites.But lunar castes are counter intuitive in general
>>98154087Huh. I always thought No Moons were the sorcerers, what with getting all the mental attributes. >>98154128That actually ties into lore, because there were 5 original Lunar castes that all got mashed up into the current 3.
>>98154225No Moons are shamans, a more social form of magic user.The 1e lunar castes are weird, despite being divided by the social/mental/physical attributes, they are actually shapeshifter/shaman/berserk.Changing Moons being the animalistic shape-shifting caste, made them the most lunar lunars around, it was even talked about in some 1e era rpgnet thread.
>>98153604>>98123472this kind anon>>98084750>>98145489has provided the first part of the essence stg drafthere's the links for when the thread expireshttps://www.mediafire.com/file/5tq29yoeeskvv5v/ExEss+STG+Draft+Part+1.pdf/filehttps://www.mediafire.com/file/ml5ilvxzr05tiy3/ExEss+STG+Draft+Part+2A.pdf/filehttps://www.mediafire.com/file/6ps6so72omgrp19/ExEss+STG+Draft+Part+2B.pdf/file
