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Exalted 3 - What the hell?

Started by DisgruntleFairy, February 24, 2014, 01:51:28 AM

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Nexus

#3030
April 09, 2017, 09:24:37 AM
It amusing that one of the other Pregens in the Jumpstart is "I fight in a thong or my own set of impractical armor that no one mentions." Volfer.

When the Hell did Exalted become about being "practical" anyway?
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Nexus

#3031
April 09, 2017, 09:28:09 AM
Quote from: Christopher Brady;956236I don't know, they have the proportions right, or close enough.  The colouring is well chosen and makes the character pop, and the pose doesn't intersect with the body.

It's ugly as hell, but it's professionally done.

So they squeezed all the fun out of something to appeal to some loud mouthed thin skinned zealots who are just going to move on to the next that "triggers" them anyways....

Sounds like par for the course.
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

Democracy, meh? (538)

 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."

Baulderstone

#3032
April 09, 2017, 09:32:26 AM
Quote from: Snowman0147;956212It just occurred to me that the "horrible" boob armor pic appears to recieve some actual effort and is more beautiful.  We got to see three different people and a beautiful landscape that the three are walking in.

The "proper" art is plain white background, only one character, and it looks like less effort was put in.  It just screams ugly to me.

I'd make some allowances for the fact that the later picture is an illustration for a pre-gen character sheet, and the earlier picture is a full page illustration. They are meeting different requirements and probably aren't operating on the same payscale.

Neither illustration is anything I would usually complain about if I saw it a in a book, but neither really interests me. The earlier one does have a nice landscape, but it's got the same problem as the old Dragonlance novel covers. Someone went to a lot of trouble to paint a static tourist snap of three characters doing close to nothing. The artist went to more effort, but it just isn't an interesting moment.

Baulderstone

#3033
April 09, 2017, 09:36:06 AM
Quote from: Nexus;956253It amusing that one of the other Pregens in the Jumpstart is "I fight in a thong or my own set of impractical armor that no one mentions." Volfer.

When the Hell did Exalted become about being "practical" anyway?

That's my take on the whole thing. Anyone making an argument about practicality in Exalted fundamentally fails to understand the game. If people want to complain about boob plate being sexist, they are entitled to their opinion. If they want to argue about boob plate in Exalted being impractical, they are morons.

Warboss Squee

#3034
April 09, 2017, 11:01:07 AM
Quote from: Nexus;956198Wait. that second picture was being praised when it was posted weeks ago...?

So my off hand comment about someone complaining about boobplate about a dozen pages ago was correct?

I need to play the lotto.

Nexus

#3035
April 09, 2017, 02:25:28 PM
Quote from: Warboss Squee;956262So my off hand comment about someone complaining about boobplate about a dozen pages ago was correct?

I need to play the lotto.

Yeah, you called it. We should have started a betting pool.
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

Democracy, meh? (538)

 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."

Nexus

#3036
April 09, 2017, 02:27:48 PM
Quote from: Baulderstone;956257That's my take on the whole thing. Anyone making an argument about practicality in Exalted fundamentally fails to understand the game. If people want to complain about boob plate being sexist, they are entitled to their opinion. If they want to argue about boob plate in Exalted being impractical, they are morons.

The impracticality and gonzo used to a feature of Exalted, one of the selling points but not now. Difficult to imagine the current fans participating in an NC-17 content contest.
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

Democracy, meh? (538)

 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."

AsenRG

#3037
April 09, 2017, 02:30:41 PM
Quote from: Nexus;956273Yeah, you called it. We should have started a betting pool.

The betting would have been about the timing, though, we all knew it would happen;)!
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