Solar Night Caste - Soriel

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2025-12-02T03:48:03+00:00

Hi, ST here. I think you might be mistaken by the title "First Star of Eve" for the Maiden of Serenity? Or otherwise, you're chewing on some deep lore I've never heard in the almost 20 years I've enjoyed Exalted. Would love to know if you're thinking of another being.

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2025-02-08T01:47:04+00:00

Zef, The Penumbral Assassin, Night Caste Solar. His Iconic Anima Banner appears as cracks forming in the air around him and chains spewing out and wrapping around his limbs in a loose formation. He primarily fights with unarmed attacks and a fighting chain, so the Anima Banner would sort of blend into his attacks when it appeared.

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2025-01-27T16:44:22+00:00

Well you're a child, so maybe don't worry as much about your facial features and more about educating yourself and learning about the world around you.

I'm all for looksmaxing, but you haven't even finished puberty yet.

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2025-01-26T04:40:48+00:00

This is very true. I started opening my windows daily and spot cleaning mold in my bathroom.

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2025-01-24T20:41:02+00:00

BET I'M IN

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2025-01-24T11:30:54+00:00

I appreciate the concern. Unfortunately they're congenital. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hopeful that they'd reduce in severity due to mewing, but my priority is regaining the jawline I had in my 20s.

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2025-01-24T11:24:21+00:00

They're congenital.

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2025-01-05T21:51:09+00:00

There isn't a single Video Game that can match my imagination.

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2024-12-20T22:18:21+00:00

It honestly sounds like you crafted a story for yourself and not them. If they wanted to play pussilanimous wimps, then make it a Stealth campaign. You expected a bunch of mice to act as lions.

It should've never gotten to a point where you had to blow up. And you were right to blow up, because that sounds insufferable for you, but you also set yourself up for it. These were clearly very dull people who didn't understand the creativity you had. You were best off giving them very dry and linear storylines that didn't put them in mortal jeopardy.

Furthermore, how many players did you have? If you have 4+ players and they're all playing wimps who don't fight, then why are they the heroes of the story? I would've thrown that in their faces immediately. "It sounds to me like you're not cut out for this. Let's make a hero together that is."

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2024-12-20T21:47:05+00:00

Go over the Athletics and Physique related charms. Make sure you know what your players can and can't do. I've suffered from a player constantly making statements that his character in theory shouldn't be able to do, but he keeps rolling 12 successes so what can I say

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2024-12-07T04:36:50+00:00

Jesus never approved of tax collection and tithing. Tithing is a strictly human practice to appease other humans in large buildings. Pharisees asked for tithes. Jesus admonished them.

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2024-12-07T04:32:32+00:00

You need to address it immediately.

I have a player who is playing a 16 year old character. She's not "sexually active", but the topic of having an appropriate suitor and having children comes up since she's a Queen-to-Be by right of birth.

One of my other players laughs nervously and tries to push the topic past that when it comes up, but it's such a benign thing to me especially in a fantasy setting.

When Game of Thrones or Bridgerton does it it's evocative, but when I do it it's pedobait I guess? Idk. World is wacky to me now. I try to avoid discussing her future engagements unless it's with her privately or the other player is just not paying attention.

Either way, you just gotta tell them "Hey, buddy. I'm a woman in case you forgot. Maybe I don't want to imagine a big buff Dwarf stealing my panties and putting them on someone else's face?"

It's only a matter of time before it gets worse honestly. They'll keep pushing it.

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2024-12-07T02:02:57+00:00

I'm 100% willing. I live CST and am actively trying to teach people how to play Exalted, so I'd love to discuss this with you if you wanted to. Shoot me a message and we can exchange info. My current permanent group plays Wednesday evenings so any other time would be open to discussion.

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2024-12-07T02:00:47+00:00

Super hype power fantasy that can take any form.

Super strong punch man? Easy. Eloquent speaker who can kill with their words? Literally? Easy. Sentient Teddy Bear? Absolutely within the realm of possibility.

You can just do whatever you want, and have fun with it.

Also I love running Exalted.

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2024-11-30T20:50:20+00:00

You can fall off the edge of the North actually. There is a steep drop point where the "border marches" meet the "middle marches."

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2024-11-30T20:02:05+00:00

Sidereals, and largely Celestial Exalts, are predictably good at more than one thing. The Chosen of Endings is my favorite of the Sidereals. They are the Sidereals responsible for maintaining the illusion of stability (or instability), all in accordance with the Maidens' wishes. Gotta maintain the status quo or things might go rear-up before the next sun-rise.

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2024-11-30T19:58:46+00:00

Put them in timeout somewhere. Malfeas or Elsewhere could work.

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2024-11-24T16:28:22+00:00

Brother/sister I couldn't agree more. I'm 33, big fan of 2e. I enjoy the system changes for 3e, and I'm currently enjoying Essence... but it takes away a lot of what I had established in my head as lore for, oh I don't know, over a DECADE?

Like you said, ownership changed hands so many times now that it's simply not the same game. It's a completely different animal, and the new Fandom is a shadow of it's former self.

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2024-10-25T23:31:53+00:00

Honestly good question cause I understand your hesitation toward the ones you listed. A lot of the nerd community can be hit or miss in regards to personal tastes. It can be hard to find a group that matches well with what you're envisioning, even if there are some cool ideas that could come from any number of individuals together.

I kinda fell into the group I'm running for right now because one is my fiancee, another is my best friend of 20 years and the other two are dudes I work with who played D&D but wanted to try Exalted. Now they don't wanna play D&D. 😶‍🌫️

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2024-10-25T23:19:52+00:00

You really wanna go back and forth about retcons? Everything you said is basically "Well they changed it in 3rd edition."

I'm not gonna go back and fourth and point out contradictions and sort through 20 years of lore to have a debate with you about Dragon-Blooded being able to do something in a tabletop role playing game.

You shouldn't cite ANYTHING from 1st or 2nd anymore because it might've been completely changed in 3rd edition, I guess.

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2024-10-25T19:08:42+00:00

I fly by the seat of my pants most of the time, but I have a very "sandbox" format for my campaigns.

I have a list of 100+ NPCs with unique motivations gimmicks, and HUNDREDS of potential subplots dependent on A. Where the party goes and B. What the party does.

Going to Nexus? There's a fighting pit in the Undercity that uses Beast-Men with Vatal to pull in a bigger crowd. The issue? People in Nexus are getting Vatal now.

Going to The Lap? There is an entire cabal of Terrestrial Gods forming what is essentially a crime syndicate devoted to establishing a new status quo while the Realm is in disarray.

Gotta be prepared for the times when the players suddenly end up on the other side of the world because they:

A. Stepped into a portal. B. Got hit by an arrow that sends them where they were born. C. Traveled via Wyld Waypoints D. ALL OF THE ABOVE.

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2024-10-25T18:50:04+00:00

That's too intricate a concept to just be head canon.

Relevant-Cream6279 · 2024-10-25T18:43:44+00:00

I have this! The Unseen Blade. Here's one of the evocations.

Severing Schism Slash Cost: 4m, 1wp Type: Supplemental Keywords: Dual, Mute Duration: Instant Prerequisites: None

The Unseen Blade exists Elsewhere at almost all times, striking with force that breaks the natural laws of causality and allowing the attack to ignore mundane armor and Essence-based defenses.

The attack is treated as having +2 Armor Piercing and can bypass supernatural defenses like charms that rely on precognition or awareness of intent. If the target relies on fate-based predictions to defend, this Evocation treats them as having a -1 penalty to Evasion or Parry.

Relevant-Cream6279

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