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Fix Exalted's setting.

Started by MeganovaStella, November 06, 2022, 05:19:51 PM

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Trond

To be honest, what drove me away from ever trying it was actually the art. I'm a visual kind of guy, and while some people love the Exalted art I just think it looks bad. But I do remember a time when almost everyone played it, it was even recommended by my banker!

BoxCrayonTales

I wish there were more settings like Everlasting. For those unfamiliar, it was a 1997 heartbreaker of World of Darkness written by WW freelancer that I'm guessing was made because the author had creative differences with WW's design. For example, it's written with a unified set of guidelines for developing powers rather than giving every fatsplat a separate system and the setting is written to support intersplat play (altho each splat has a variable reputation with others, e.g. angels think vampires are damned bloodsucking monsters). Anyway, not only does it have 90s mainstays like vampires, shifters, angels, reincarnating magicians, and so on, but it also has Tolkienesque races like elves, dwarves and orcs, as well as an equivalent of WW's scion. It's so over the top that I can't help but find it endearing.

ForgottenF

It was ages ago, and it was 1st edition, but I recall Exalted having a pretty good setting. Pirates, barbarians, merchants, a big empire, all the major biome types. It's got all the basics in there. And the whole "servants of a lost god being hunted by the empire" framing device works for keeping a party of superpowered anime characters together. As I recall, the biggest problem we had playing from just the corebook was the lackluster bestiary.

RebelSky

Fix Exalted by designing a game system that actually works for it. The setting is great. I like the setting most in it's original incarnation but Exalted is like Shadowrun... Great setting but bad system.

S'mon

Quote from: rkhigdon on November 07, 2022, 10:37:29 AM
It's basically OSR Exalted from the guy who did Stars/Worlds Without Number and Scarlet Heroes.  Free version found at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/185959/Godbound-A-Game-of-Divine-Heroes-Free-Edition

He also did Exemplars & Eidolons, https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/144651/Exemplars--Eidolons which I like, and free.
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