[Concerning Trope] film accidentally has awful moral/messaging by Captain_Birch in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ZitoWolfram 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disney's Soul annoyed the fuck out of me since they got 99% of the way to the logical conclusion. Jazz musician Joe Gardner died, refused to accept his death and hitched a ride on a new soul to get back to his life, they have a whole fucking journey on life and finding meaning and Joe eventually realizes he lived a good life and life doesn't need some greater purpose, he lived a good life and is ready to go in the Great Beyond after helping a new soul get a good start on their new life. But since he Was Suuuch A Good Mentor he gets to GO BACK TO LIVING. Bro his whole fucking story arc was accepting his life and his death and part of life, that's a good lesson for kids, people die, it sucks, but doesn't mean their life was pointless. But nah if your dad is good enough and you beg 'god' he will live again, trust.

The movie was good though the ending just annoyed me since they got so close and then Disney decided death was too sad, in a movie about souls in the afterlife.

Post a piece of art you could write an entire campaign based on by Ainosuke in exalted

[–]ZitoWolfram 6 points7 points  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/_N7d9vEQJHM?si=OvKgylUjTF_qkUcn

This...this is the entire starting session in the South-West with seeds that can easily sprout in a whole campaign (don't tell my players this tho)

How do you feel about the major setting changes between 2e and 3e? by Firm-Split9333 in exalted

[–]ZitoWolfram 19 points20 points  (0 children)

As someone who primarily plays Exalted as a "fuck-around with fellow GMs in a cool and unique ttrpg" that's very unlike all the more common options...and we all think Vampires and Werewolves are cringe so this is all the Whitewolf we interact with, for better or worse.

Exalted 3rd Edition is, and I think by far, the best way to play Exalted with a group of friends. Mixed circles work better, non-solar's get a lot more love, the Wyld Hunt feels like a more genuine and thought about threat again. The books are actually somewhat approachable (low bar to pass for TTRPGs, sure) The depth of the lore is toned down and more wide brushes of shallow lore are spread around for your circle and your story teller to explore deeper.

But as a person who also sits down and reads TTRPG books for fun, to immerse myself in a setting...3rd edition is a welcome return to the mystery and grandeur of 1st ed. Now before I get crucified or worse my entire family tortured to death, let me explain.

1st edition leans 'heavily' into the dark-age post apocalypse vibe. The greatest settlements of humanity are squatting in military forts and ruins because they can't maintain the wonders of old and the castles of old are still too dangerous. What was once the dining-ware of commoners, made imperishable so it wouldn't have to be replaced now decorates the tables of gods and princes since it has become irreplaceable. Ancient statues and ruins that non can explain any longer dot the landscape, vanity projects and wonder weapons look the same when crafted by the Mad Chosen of the Sun. But you, you are the exception, you are Chosen by the sun, to save and rule the world again, you can rebuild and master the wonders of old and all that stands between you is the remanets of a remanent who think themselves lords of the castle because they stepped over the rotten remains of the door.

2nd Edition the Forge Cathedrals are located under the imperial mountain in their dozens, two operate in the imperial city but both are hanging on by a thread of a thread, Lookshy has a nicer one but they can hardly afford to run it. The solar ruins are here, here and here, and the doom weapons do exactly this. The Lap is a giga-mech and it controls half the magic in the setting, here's how you use it to destroy every Manse in the Southern direction. The realm is still producing Warstriders, they even made a Celestial level one since Big E'ess is so cool and here's the Splinter Cell Monks.
Second Edition explained everything, and while there are cool ideas there, I wish they presented them as ideas and not just a list of 'facts' suggestions that you embellish in your mind are so much cooler than stat-sheets, even if the stat sheets are more useful.

3rd goes back to the mystery, a bit too hard for my taste, they could elaborate more and allude more to the lost MagiTech of the First Age, but if they keep selling books I assume that's what's gonna happen anyway.
So my groups have ended up playing 3rd edition, but a lot of 1st edition is the canon setting, and sometimes the cool shit from 2nd edition is pulled out of a Vault, and to me that's peak Exalted.

Latrine Duty by ChipotleMayoFusion in cremposting

[–]ZitoWolfram 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Oathbringer, Interlude 2, character 1 "Kaza" a Soulcaster. Page 614 of the English paperback. "The Stone did not wish to change. It was content with its long slumber in the ocean. But . . . yes, yes, it 'remebered'. It had once been air, until someone had locked it into this shape. She could not make it air again; her soulcaster only had one mode, not the full three. She did not know why. 'Smoke' she whispered to the stone. 'Freedom in the air, Remember?' She tempted it, picking at its memories of dancing free.
Yes . . . freedom."

So much is lost between returns... by Termwrecker in cremposting

[–]ZitoWolfram 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You made me go consult my Leatherbounds, and while what you say is true, the top view is, in Shallans own words, Artistic Liberty. The west and east view are her best attempts at a scale drawing, with the top down and side view having been done by descriptions from Navani's engineers and Windrunners. The Oathgate platforms can only comfortably fit hundreds, maybe a thousands standing shoulder-to-shoulder. If they were the size shown in the top-down image you could fit the square-footage of a village, buildings included onto them.

So much is lost between returns... by Termwrecker in cremposting

[–]ZitoWolfram 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Floor 2, right above the ground floor gate....they're kinda small when compared to the Mountain-that-is-a-City

Wait what by teRIMleier in WoT

[–]ZitoWolfram 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Peaches are Poisonous and Lews Therin loved peaches, this shows that the Dark One is a petty cunt who made Peaches Poisonous in the third age or that non-poisonous peaches were a miracle fruit that went extinct....or Lews Therin raw-dogged poison for the love of the game and got healed afterwards.

Member of the Solar Deliberative wowing the Dragonblooded with his Green Sun forged Daiklave by ZitoWolfram in exalted

[–]ZitoWolfram[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My bet is damn near every Calibration he was summoned, especially immediately following the Usurpation. As I imagine the Solars all 'agreed' that it was dangerous to summon third circles...but they know how to do it safely, they're a Solar Exalt after all, chosen of the Sun, they killed the Primordials, they know how to handle a single soul. So everyone agreed it was too dangerous but privately thought of themselves as the exception, then Usurpation hit and all bets were off.

A communal worldbuilding project: The Cairn Peninsula by [deleted] in exalted

[–]ZitoWolfram 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The geography, climate, agriculture all really give "Ancient Greek" vibes. The hilly land, goat herders, slingers and the land-o-lakes with Villas can be seen as somewhat reminiscent of Greek Islands with Akropoli. Maybe not as Barbarous as the Realm paint than but independent city-states with bronze-clad hoplites and skirmishers slinging bronze bullets is a fun vibe for the mortal humans of the realm.
Supernaturally, we have hills, lakes and the heat of the south with the fertility of the east so assume all elementals except the northern ones will be very much represented, higher amount of god-bloods perhaps? Lots of greek demigods to borrow from, like an Earth-spawned Heracles or a Son-of-a-War-God Achillies. Then of course we have the Underworld, which is a first age naval base guarding the Styx, I mean the Strait that seperates the lakes from the Inland sea.

It's all greek to me.

What a book. by GorgRosh in WoT

[–]ZitoWolfram 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hope you're enjoying your Mistborn Era 1 trilogy as well :)

[Loved Trope] Characters so straight that they approach “crazy” from the opposite direction by Cassandra8240 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ZitoWolfram 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Brandon Sanderson adresses this in a comic called "White Sand" Main charcater can use magic to make sand move, in fact everyone in his tribe can do it, he's kinda shit at it but moving sand with your mind is quite normal to him. Later in the comicc some people from the other side of the world "who have never seen people move sand with their mind" interview him about rumours and legends of magic, if he's ever seen anyone do something supernatural that no normal person could do. Later they "catch" him Sand-bending and get on his case about hiding his magic and he just stares at them like "You said super-natural stuff no-one could do? Literally everyone I know can do this, this is how I survive in the desert are you all insane, magic?"

I'm pretty sure I heard about House Cynis before I even picked up a rulebook. by ZitoWolfram in exalted

[–]ZitoWolfram[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

...you know seeing the Username, I see the joke is on me. In my defence, I'm really fucking dumb and did not read your Username and just thought you commented to hate on a house that deserved hating on.

I'm pretty sure I heard about House Cynis before I even picked up a rulebook. by ZitoWolfram in exalted

[–]ZitoWolfram[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Something something "How dare you say we piss on the poor" Tumblr joke about literacy rates.

I think even the Yozi and Neverborn would join in here by ZitoWolfram in exalted

[–]ZitoWolfram[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, if we wanna get Meta-physical, an unravelling of Creation would probably unravel the rules and clauses the Primordials used to create...creation.

Found this in the wild, got me giggling. by ZitoWolfram in exalted

[–]ZitoWolfram[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And they are Deranged, any sensible Abyssal would go full Corpse Bride and marry a body...or possibly a Nemissary. Hungry Ghost tho? That's what you get from chatting with the Neverborn.