Stunts are easily my favorite part of the system. Simply go into detail when describing the specifics of your action and involve the game environment. Your ST will reward with bonuses based on how well you described the action. Limit breaks differ from character to character, so that is largely up to you to decide. Based on what you said about your character, perhaps a limit break based around truly going to the ends of the earth for something regardless of the consequences would fit.

Stunts:
+1) Make an effort, try to do something cool. Be brief.
+2) Make a cool description that fleshes out the scenery a bit. Be brief.
+3) Make everyone say you're awesome at describing things. Be brief.

Stunts can pretty much be done on any action, and don't necessarily have to follow the laws of physics. A good example of an athletics stunt would be the wallrunning in Prince of Persia games, while a combo in a fighting game might be a good example of a flurry stunt. But above all, make it short, snappy, and keep the flow of the game going.

Limit break:
For a solar? Something debilitating, petty, childish, and angry. For the first time, try to use one of the examples in the book, and talk to your ST about changing it once you get the hang of it. And play it out, don't try to limit it's effects, or you'll just lose any control over your character and be bored.

I was pretty terrible at Martial arts stunts until I remembered my overly-pretentious 90's JRPGs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL-_0Yo4ZMQ

your solar would go to the end of the world to protect someone/anyone?

devising time to a unbreachable portable room would be cool.

also:
>Now he's trying to prove to his beloved that he's not an evil Anathema
if she doesnt go lunar, your ST is an asshole.

>>5193898
Considering what Lunars have to go through to exalt, if she -does- go Lunar, your ST is still an asshole.

>>5193898
>devising time to a unbreachable portable room would be cool.
Huh?

Though as for the beloved, part of the idea for the character is that he also followed Immaculate doctrine (not like an orthodox Jew or anything), and he's a bit messed up by his Exaltation, and is trying to figure things out for himself. It seems a pretty Zenith thing.

I hadn't really thought of the beloved becoming my Lunar mate, but I had thought of how awkward it would be for the character to find his Lunar mate and it not being her. And if she was already afraid of him being a demon, that might mess her up too.

Nothing more for this thread? I was hoping to see some awesome examples of stunting, or stories of how people blew up Gem with a staple and some duct tape.

Well, I still don't have a name for my character, and I'm tempted to make the beloved be a guy. Though I likely wouldn't mention that unless someone asked, and only mention them by name.

>>5193918

not if he's a good ST and can make it work in the story...

who knows


OP: just make sure you get the proper strenght charms so you can, at low levels, dual wield HOUSES - and at higher levels dual wield mountains

>>5194201
> Solar
> Attribute-based charms

>>5194222
Is that bad?

>>5193918

If the ST doesn't get her into the Silver Pact, he's an asshole.

Unless, seeking a Silver Pact member could be an adventure itself...

>>5194147

Ah, Gem. The most combustible city in the world.

>>5194251
Just being a jerky stickler about the terminology. Lunars are the only group with charms grouped by attribute, so unless he went Eclipse instead of Zenith, he would have charms grouped by ability. So, Melee or Athletics charms, not strength charms.

>>5194272
MoEP: Sidereals
Page 78
"Nazri also maintains a watch post in Gem in hopes of identifying and explaining the ominous destiny that clings to that city."

>>5194281
Ah, I see.

>>5194253
Alright, you're gonna have to explain this Lunar stuff to me. I don't know much more than that they're shapeshifting furries, and they each are paired with a Solar. I know they Exalt by surviving great hardship, but that's about it. What's a Silver Pact, and why would this stuff happen?

>>5194147

Well, i wasn't present for it, but my friend was playing in what turned out to be the last session of a chronicle, as a Night caste who styled himself as a "prince of thieves" type -- a happy-go-lucky, transparently selfish rogue. His circle was forced into a confrontation against a third-circle soul of Adorjan.

He'd been pretty feckless the whole game, but as the time came for him to stand off against the demon, he suddenly started recovering memories from his past incarnations... when he was a divine assassin, a hunter of demons, who'd made it his mission to tread all enemies of the Unconquered Sun under his feet until none remained.

As he let his chakram fly, he wept slightly, lamenting the time he wasted on purely selfish pursuits, and his single weapon turned into dozens, then hundreds of essence-copies, bright as the rays of the morning sun.

(He got a three-die stunt, inflicted 20 damage, and the ST let him change his motivation on the spot. It was pretty amazing, to hear him tell it.)

>>5194344

Instead of being born into a cast, they Exalt Casteless. If they remain this way, they don't need to specialize in stuff (making them kinda a jack of all trades) but they tend to have the risk of becoming Chimaeras (think monstrous mindless rape machines made of the Lunar + tons of animal parts) each time they shift, which is the point of being a Lunar (in my opinion). The Silver Pact is the Lunar guys that get you tattoed so you get fixed in a cast and get protection from becoming a Chimaera and some Wyld shenanigans. It involves some tests and training.

>>5194344
Silver pact is the loose governmental confederacy of tattooed Lunars. They hunt down freshly-exalted Lunars, and apply moonsilver tattoos to their entire bodies, fixing them into a specific caste, providing them with a mentor and support network, and more or less bringing them into the lunar fold.

Not to mention rendering them entirely immune to shaping effects and providing them with Favored Attributes.

(A further note: Lunars get favored attributes, not favored abilities. Lunar charms are based off an attribute and your essence, not an ability and your essence. And finally, Lunars have the ability to take the form of anything they eat the heart of, with certain restrictions.)

>>5194461

To elaborate: after the Usurpation, the Lunars (those who lived, anyway) had to flee creation completely so they would be outside Fate and untrackable by the Sidereals. This, of course, meant they had to make tracks for the Middlemarches of the Wyld surrounding creation.

It turns out living there for a long time is really bad for you, and the original system of castes that the Lunars had been created with ended up breaking. The three middle castes (quarter-moon, half-moon, gibbous moon? i think) were completely mutated into the "changing moon" caste, and only New Moon and Full Moon remained, but even then, no Lunars actually Exalted with castes anymore. They had to work out a way to use their magical metal, Moonsilver, to tattoo the body with ritual patterns that fixed their caste so they didn't become Wyld-tainted lunatic killing machines.

The lesson to take away from all this? Absolutely nothing can kill the Lunars. NOTHING.

>>5194461
>>5194543
>>5194551
So what would this mean for me as a Zenith who's exaltation has scared the crap out of his Anathema fearing beloved? Besides, presumably, Twin Faced Hero shenanigans.

>>5194551
They were actually Waxing (Leader-types), Half (Diplomat types), and Waning (Sneaky types).

And yeah, pretty much the only three areas that Lunars can outdo Solars in are "Damage-soaking", "Environmental survival" (Living down the street from the Elemental pole of fire sure toughens you up), and the obvious "Shapeshifting/disguise".

>>5194551

I always thought that the lesson there was "Sidereals are a bunch of dicks". But then again, we always new that.

>>5194460
So that's what a good stunt is? That's fucking awesome. Is that just plain stunting, or did it involve any Charms or motes to do?

>>5194617
Well, IF your ladylove exalts as a Lunar, she's going to rock. At the moment, nothing much. We're mostly just rambling about Lunars, sorry.

>>5194638

For a stunt like that, my guess is there have to be charms. Otherwise, the players can always just say "I do X," and then X happens.

>>5194656
Ah, I see.

I have used the term "beloved" for a reason other than dramatitism, though. But keep talking about Lunars, because I do find eXALTED! interesting, and especially keep talking about it if it means more stuff like >>5194460

Also, I want to perform Giga Drill Break with my sword as a stunt.

>>5194637

All Exalted are dicks. That's the point of the Primordial curse.

>>5194638

The stunt is all in how he described it (and frankly, he went over-the-top, but it WAS the last battle, so it deserved to be epic). The actual mechanical stuff was a thrown attack augmented by a mess of charms -- he had a pretty costly combo that was basically designed to hit someone absolutely as many times as you could do so in a single action, as is pretty common -- i just don't recall which off the top of my head and he's at a barbecue now so i can't ask him.

A good stunt is simply a good description, in fluff, of what your character is actually doing, in crunch. Motion and distance are very flexible, so it helps to mention things you're doing besides attacking, your effect on the environment, using things around you to involve the scenery in the battle, etc. -- you can probably play jazz a bit with what's actually IN the scene as long as it doesn't totally fuck with the ST's conception of what's happening.

>>5194638

Stunting doesn't need charms, it can occur concurrent with charm use, but it isn't so much a distinct action so much as a way of encouraging you make the game as enjoyable as possible.

Backflipping everywhere is not stunt.

Leaping onto a swinging chandelier, reaching down and attempting to rescue the princess before she's sacrificed to a neverborn mid-swing is.

Of course, if an NPC who isn't a mook attempts to leap onto that chandelier and fight you whilst the thing is moving, then that's a stunt for him too.

Attacking your enemy by elbowdropping off a skyscraper would count as a minor stunt as well.

Basically, watch some Wuxia films, (Hero has some good ones) and some luchadore. Extrapolate from there.

>>5194638

Charms were undoubtedly involved. There's an Archery charm for splitting a single attack into multiple essence-copies. I can't recall if there was one for thrown but I'm sure the player could easily have adapted it to thrown so he could do multiple essence chakram attacks like he did in his stunt.

So, should I bring up the suggestion to make my character's significant other into a Lunar, or just see what he has in store?

And what of the Fair Folk rival? My idea is based on something the ST said, that some Fair Folk will just live out their own stories and act as if their the hero and I'm the villain, all the while draining life force. I'm thinking that he's going to think he's the hero in this relationship, and is trying to 'rescue' the girl from me.

He mentioned that having a Solar rival is something of a fashion statement among the Fae nobles.

>>5194703

Well, if we really want to get into it, everyone in Creation is a dick. I haven't read about a single non-dick in all Exalted. The gods are dicks, the spirits are dicks, the Primordials are dicks, the Exalted are dicks, the mortals are dicks, the elementals are dicks, the faeries are dicks... Everyone is a dick. I just happen to think that the Sidereals are even more dickish then the rest. Still awesome, though.

Example of a 3-die stunt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s057eriPEI8&feature=related

>>5194870

Well, yeah, that's their style. Since the Fair Folk who entered Creation during their attempt to annihilate Creation once and for all had to assume "shape" to do so, instead of being alien beings of chaos, they can't actually go back. Mostly this means they are bored, so they just do their best to live like they did in the Wyld -- that is, they tell stories about how awesome they are, and have petty rivalries and blood feuds and tragic romances and really anything that entertains them. Their shaping power, which only works fully in the Wyld or in a Demense, is a fairy's story-telling power -- they tell you that they're gonna be the heroic knight and you're the ugly dragon, and unless you're an Exalted character with Integrity charms, you ARE the ugly dragon.

The idea of a Fair Folk Noble deciding that you're a horrific Anathema who's deceiving a fair maiden, planning to devour her or make her a sacrifice to your dark masters, pretty much means that you can expect him to be a pain in the ass as long as one of you is still alive. Enjoy dealing with his fey armies and their mighty gossamer armaments!

>>5195026
The other idea is that they paint themselves as the horrible dragon, and I'm supposed to defeat them, and they get upset if I'm not being dramatic enough.

>>5195002
Is there a charm that lets me make drills?

>>5195061

of course, being the villain is a lot of fun too! having brave and noble heroes striving to uncover your dastardly plot, their dramatic speeches and heroic motivations, seeing their crestfallen faces and shock and horror as they realize they're far too late to stop you from blowing up Gem... it's almost too much excitement to bear!

I like the fair folk. they're villains who are legitimately and understandably in if for the lulz. They don't really break the fourth wall so much as occasionally wink at the audience beyond.

>>5195077
>seeing their crestfallen faces and shock and horror as they realize they're far too late to stop you from blowing up Gem...
Oh God, I'm doing this.

Bump. Any good ideas for a name? In this setting, are people likely to change their name when they undergo something momentous (such as Exalting)?

What about the Fair Folk? Do they have regular names, or are they more likely to be named The Lord of the Green Eyes, or Smile-of-Ten-Sharks?

>>5195465

It's Exalted. You can be named whatever the hell you want. As for the Fair Folk, the names you use tend to be the names they have been know for, instead of their true names. So yes, Golden Sparrow of the Silver Wang is a valid name for a Fair Folk.

Well, does anyone have any awesome Exalted stories? I was hoping that I'd get some in this thread.

>>5196230
Sure. I was with my Solar buddies in An-Teng, and the Twilight went into Limit Break. He had deliberate cruelty. So he tricked the satrap (Ragara Soras Jor) to go into a forest, and sniped him and his buddies. That's not the end of it. He then proceeds to make all the people into one statue in the likeness of the Satrap. Cue the Wyld Hunt. The hunt comes along, and he gets on his windblade and lures them away from the city. He is hold Sun's Fist Chakrams, and 5 bags at that. He tosses a ton of them at this thing with 5 Immaculates and a fang of troops, and blows it up. The immaculates all start jumping off to drag him down to the ground, and fail.

>>5196230
Our campaign has been running for over a year now, and I play a hotblooded Twilight Warstrider Pilot. Without a shirt..

Anyway, I remember the first stunt I ever really did, and it was in the second session. I had reached my manse after trekking from Nexus only to find it in horrible need of repair. The elemental lines or whatever were screwed up, turning the fire aspect into an earth aspect. This was making the whole site unstable, and causing nothing to be able to grow for miles around.
Time to fix shit, right? Right. So I get to work, seeing what's all around, and I find a pillar on the first floor that lets me access the manse's status. While this is going on, in comes the first person to join the party, and as it would happen, my character's Lunar Mate, a Full Moon Pangolin totem. My character gets all hotblooded and on edge and wanting to fight her, and she's pretty much facepalming until we find out why she came. Barbarian tribes were being organized to steal hearthstones from every manse in the area. Why? We have no idea, but the Lunar was trying to get to the hearthstone before the barbarians could.
Before my character has a chance to fight, though, the barbarians decide to show up, surrounding the manse, sending group inside, led by a giant wolf beastman, to see what was going on. They find us, naturally, and try to rush us to try to kill us.
This doesn't go as well as planned for them, though, because the first thing that happens is that the Pangolin Lunar assumes her War Form, a ten-foot tall deathmachine with claws the size of swords and scales as thick and as hard as any fucking metal.

>>5196713
She attacks the barbarian (the non-special EXTRA barbarian), flurrying three fucking times. It's easy to say she turns the guy into ribbons, blood flying everywhere. The other barbarians close by notice this, looking between her and me (who is now shining a bright solar golden) and decide to get the fuck out of there. Remember the pillar we were standing by? Well, one of the poor extras slips on all the blood, slamming the back of his head RIGHT against it, and suddenly we have a new problem.
"Self-destruct sequence activated. Please enter delay until detination." "WHAT?! NO! CANCEL! CANCEL!" "Confirmed. Five minutes until detination, please evacuate immediately." "FUCK." Suddenly, we all feel a rumble.
By this time, the wolf beastman has advanced, blocking the exit, and there's a whole fucking HORDE of barbarians pouring in. I just got my manse, and there's no fucking way that I'm going to lose it now. The manse is malfunctioning, and in order to make any use out of the console and stop the detonation, I have to fix the room with the hearthstone on the third floor, attune, and get back down to the control pillar. In five minutes.
I start leaping and running up the stairs as fast as I can with a wave of barbarians behind me, reaching the hearthstone room in just under a minute. The room looks kind of like the Greek Pantheon, an open room with triangular roof, supported by pillars all the way around the sides, letting you view the outside really easily. Oh, and we also find out what the rumble is. Apparently, the manse started to ascend on a pillar, and is now 20 METERS IN THE AIR.

>>5196726
The pillar with the hearthstone on it is in the middle, cracked and broken, fire welling up inside and scalding hot to the touch. I run towards the pillar with my Twilight castemark shining, slamming my fists into it, using Craftsman Needs No Tools to start to mend it. It isn't long before the barbarians catch up, surrounding me and attempting to bring me down with their spears. I don't have time to waste fighting them, because the clock is ticking, so all I can manage is to parry. So, I'm punching the pillar into repair with one hand, and blocking and parrying the spears with the other, all the while channeling my essence and attempting to attune to the manse at the same time.
Eventually, the pillar is fixed, in record time. I stand in front of it, yelling at the top of my lungs, forcing my entire being into attuning, throwing in Willpower and channeling Valor to make the manse mine.... but I still have to get back down to the first floor to stop the countdown. There's only 20 seconds left on the clock.... looks like I'm gonna have to jump.

>>5196735
I fly forward, kicking off of barbarian heads, springing me up and out of the top floor of the manse, over 20 meters from the ground, diving for the first floor's entranceway.
Meanwhile, the Lunar has managed to completely dismember and destroy all of the barbarians, but she's having trouble with the wolf beastman and his huge axe. She's fighting him back, pushing him further and further towards the door and she's steadily gaining ground until finally, she kicks, sending him flying through, and almost out of, the door, causing him to have to catch onto the doorframe to not fall to his death... that is until I come diving.
I grab onto his arm. "6..." Swing around, flipping and kicking off of his chest. The beastman falls, yelling, his voice getting more and more quiet. "5..." Fly forward, grabbing onto the pillar, slamming my hand down on it and yelling to deactivate self-destruct. "4... 3... 3... Self-Destruct sequence deactivated."

This whole thing STILL stands out in my mind, and this was only in the SECOND SESSION.

>>5196742
FUCK YEAH

I remember the time our group, which was something along the lines of a Twilight with a big gun, another Twilight who did medicine things and Sorcery, the most generic Dawn sword guy ever, a loli, a very angry jade alchemical, the hueg fullmoon lunar, and my ninja chef Night, had to fight a raksha and his giant fucking lava worm in the core of a volcano.

So the fight starts off pretty normally, we shoot off some attacks and yell some GAR stuff at each other, and then out of nowhere, the lava worm fucking smashes down and explodes our dawn into gibs. (RIP) So the Lunar gets really pissed and goes "OKAY, FUCK YOUR SHIT" and motherfucking grapples the Raksha, who responds by stabbing him clear through the stomach. Everyone proceeds to pummel the held-down Raksha for a while, before he finally goes "NO, FUCK YOUR SHIT" and gains control of the clinch near the end of his health track, and fucking *hurls himself and the lunar into the molten lava below.*

So as soon as she sees this, my Night jumps down after them, punches the goddamn Raksha off our Lunar, grabs the lunar, and slams one of her knives into the side of the raised platform to keep the both of us from falling in. The Raksha jumps out of the fucking and up after us, and tries to grab us, so my Night responds by chucking the lunar into the air, slamming into the Raksha's face with her boot, then using the momentum to rocket halfway up in the air Super Mario style and catches the Lunar again.

>>5196742
>>5196735
>>5196726
>>5196713
FUCK.
YES.
!!!
That's the kind of thing that I want to do. How do I start thinking like I'm playing Exalted!?

Am I going to have to rewatch Gurren Lagann a third time, and punch someone in the face while jumping out of a warstrider at high velocity shouting "LET'S SEE YA GRIT THOSE TEETH!"?

>>5196952
So after his master dies, the lava worm is all like "man what" and smashes a hole in the ceiling with its face just in time for the volcano to start erupting. Pretty much everyone at this point is hiding in the sorcerer twilight's sphere of impervious water to avoid ending up like the Dawn, when the loli Zenith suddenly steps forward, and is like "STOP BEING A FAGGOT AND HELP US GET OUT OF HERE." The lava worm refuses, so our punchy alchemical grabs onto his face and starts beating him up and yelling noisily at him to STOP BEING A FAGGOT. Eventually the damn thing calms down and lets us out, but not before we use the Lunar's cooking pot to scoop up what was left of our dawn.

Naturally, just as we leave, the volcano explodes.

The worst part about Exalted is that, as a storyteller, I don't get to play it.

If I did, though, I'd probably be a simon expy.

So our party, which consisted of a Dawn Martial Artist (me), a hatchet-wielding Zenith, a Twilight Sorcerer and a Night caste swashbuckler, are fighting against this bunch of Abyssals that were pretty much our rivals for the entire campaign. Hell, my character Exalted because the Dusk Caste faggot had killed his entire village and raped his mom. We had been hunting them for the entire campaign, always managing to thwart whatever it was they were trying to do but not actually get them.

Turns out we were lucky we didnt fight them before our power-ups as the entire party continues to get their asses handed to them. I'm trying my best to duel against the maul-wielding Dusk caste just to keep him the fuck off of everyone else.

Things are starting to look grim when everyone is running out of Essence and our Health Levels are going down fast. Somehow the Midnight and Day caste Abyssals manage to gangbang the Night Caste swashbuckler and proceed to beat the dogfuck out of her.

Now, I'm too preoccupied with the fucking Juggernaut-sized bastard swinging his maul at me, so I actually found out things were going back when I take a glimpse and see the Night Caste getting her head torn clean off. I pretty much stopped fighting and just kept staring as her limp carcass collapsed on the ground. The Day Caste rubbed it in even more by hoisting her torn head in the air and drinking the blood that was gushing out of what was once her neck.

>>5197112


Too bad for them that our characters had developed a relationship, evolving from 'mild dislike' to 'friendly' and eventually the equivalent of 'fucking each other like rabbits'.

I decide to just fuck all, like hell I'm going to die here. I use up all my remaining Essence to hit this Day fucker with one Combo. Suddenly my Anima lights up like a fucking Divine bonfire as I load my up punch, my fist heading straight for that motherfuckers face.

My Essence forms itself into a golden, soaring Falcon and first flies away from me, then approaching me from behind at a ludicrous speed, eventually following my fist as it makes contact with the Abyssals face. Now, before this Combo was used as a joke move, but this time no one fucking laughed as I yelled 'FALCON PUNCH' at the top of my lungs.

Blood and teeth fly everywhere, the Abyssal looks like he's hit by a fucking bus as he flies a good 80 yards backwards, landing on his back.

He never got back up.

How do I learn to think in terms of stunts? I want to be able to pull off this kind of awesome thing, but I don't usually think of involving the environment or any of that awesome stuff. How do I do that kind of thing? I've mostly only done DMing of low powered modern games, never really anything so huge and awesome, except one BESM campaign when I was still new to RPing.

tl;dr: How do I Stunt well?

>>5197340
be creative.

...or watch tons of action and kung-fu movies.

>>5197340
Just be creative and describe shit. You'll do fine if you can do better than "I pinch him" or "I hit him with my sword" or "I give a speech to inspire the troops" and roll dice. Stunts are saying how you do stuff. In the last example, actually GIVE the speech, then roll your dice afterward to see how well it takes.

>>5197340

You take something generic, then make it awesome. "I stab him in the face" becomes "I run off the building as it's exploding behind me, jump into the air doing a triple salchow, then drive my sword through his forehead and out the back of his neck. Also, I'm on fire." What I described is a level one, maybe level two stunt. It's just a matter of practice. For example, try to make "I bake a cake" awesome. Post the results. The best way to learn is to do.

>>5197340
Well, the first thing is to be creative. Even if you aren't very creative, you can still probably get 1 (maybe 2) die stunts on a regular basis by simply saying more then "I attack with my Daiklaive."

Also, don't just think in terms of "How can I use my environment to my advantage?", also think in terms of "What can I place in my environment that I can do something cool with?" Within reasonable bounds, you can add minor details to the environment to aid in stunts:
- Falling down the side of a building? *Poof* A flag pole is sticking from the side for you to grab.
- Need to get up to the upper level of a room? *Poof* There is a tapestry for you to climb.
- Knocking an enemy through a glass window? *Poof* Make it be stained glass and describe how the colored glass falls.

>>5197422
>>5197383
See, that I can do, I've already done that in games, and I'm the kind of guy who tries to be dramatic at everything that needs drama. I've just never thought of running up a wall and punching someone in the face.

>>5197440
>For example, try to make "I bake a cake" awesome. Post the results. The best way to learn is to do.
Interesting. Gimme a few minutes.

>>5197383
>>5197422
>>5197440
>>5197446

This, plus bonus points if the stuff you do fits your character really well.

Guys, just DESCRIBING isn't stunting. When you stunt, you do something really cool. Something that makes other people go WHOASHIT THAT WAS AWESOME. Things like that.

>>5197440
>try to make "I bake a cake" awesome.

How about baking bread?

>>5197340
Protip: Your Anima is the greatest form of stunting you get, and it's absolutely free. When you flare Iconic, you have free reign to narrate your Anima emphasizing shit in all kinds of ways, whether thematic (mimicking your motions, physically forming part of the attack, bleaching the area from your focused concentration of essence), or mechanical (Zenith Anima gives you searing holy fire on attacks, Eclipses use all their learned NonSolar Charms as-projected through their Anima).

If nothing else fits, give them a light show to remember.

Reminds me of that time that two of my players rehearsed a dual-tech Chrono Trigger style. Basically, the Dawn guy lifted a huge stone, then the Night girl jumps with Monkey Leap from the stone while the Dawn guy throws it upwards till it is just above the enemies. Then the Night Caste kicks it down with all her strength so it crashes in the face of the leader of the raiding hungry dead, a necromancer.

>>5193898
>>5193918
>>5194253
It's a bit after the fact, but I should point out that the surest way to ensure a Lunar Mate NPC is...the Allies Background. A dot or two in it and it's pretty much a done deal.

>>5197536

No, it has to be cake. Cake is frilly and lacy, while bread is rugged and manly and puts hair on your chest. If you can make baking a cake, the most effeminate of all pastries, awesome, you can make anything awesome. Besides, other people have already worked the "baking bread is awesome" angle.

>>5197708
Yakitate! Japan alone has so many examples of how to be badass while baking bread that one could mind it for stunt fodder for a long time. Well, that, or all the stunting is actually from the people who eat the bread, but it's still more than enough reason to focus more on baking cakes or delicate, girly pastries.

>>5197725

Yes, that is the show I was referring to.

>>5197687
But it's so much more fun to have the Lunar mate be hostile!

The game I am working on has a geeky twilight caste whose lunar mate (unbeknown to him) be MASSIVELY pissed at him for ditching her during the Usurpation. Did it mention that she is a Full Moon Bear Totem lunar whose built like a tank as well as being emotionally unstable? She's had over 1000 years to getting over it (helped by the fact that she expected him never to return due to be sealed away) but now all that has been shattered with his reappearance.

I'm going to have a massive amount of fun pissing off the twilight's player due to the fact that it kinda reflects the women issues he's had over the last few years IRL.

>>5197785

What? Of course he ditched her during the Usurpation. He was brutally murdered in a surprise attack, and then his soul was locked away in a giant prison. How can you be pissed at someone for being dead?

>>5197536
>>I bake a cake.
Bake? Bake? Your words deride my chosen craft sir, no - you wound me be speaking them. Bake? I have FORGED this cake in a white-hot crucible, shaping it in a heat so intense that to approach it would cause a lesser being to wither and die.
To even begin to contemplate such a feat of craftsmanship, one must travel to the furthest climes of Creation, taking sugar from the heady islands of the Southwest, grains from the feet of Mt. Meru itself, spices from the exotic deep Western jungles (where no mortal has e'er dared tread!), and eggs and dairy wrested from the loins of unspeakable fey beasts.
For three score and ten turnings of the clock I have stood vigilant and all-seeing as my work took form and shape out of protean mass. In this way, my work mirrors the work of all Lawgivers; giving shape to shapelessness and imposing form and function on meaningless void.
Removing my artifice from its forge, I inspect the item thus far. This work is fine beyond measure; consistent crumb, moist, flavorful interior, but I remain unsatisfied. I set to work with the arcane tools of this craft; byzantine devices unrecognizable to those not inducted to the secrets of my trade. Moments stretch into hours and I labor, transfixed, laying sheets of pounded cane nutmeats, affixing sumptuous fruits. Wiping the sweat from my brow, I step back to admire my handiwork, and I feel a sensation often denied to a demigod.
I feel satisfied.
This is no mere cake. This is a gift of great work. Given to a lover slighted, this is forgiveness of transgressions past. Given to a foe sparred with, this is an ally gained. Kept to yourself, it is an indulgence to rival the wine of Heaven itself.
"Baked!" Ha!

>>5197829

The Most Delicious Cake with Perfect Golden Crumb (Artifact Rating 6)

>>5197829

That right there is a level 3 cake-smithing stunt. Now, you just have to do that occasionally for practice. Take the ordinary and make it over-the-top and unbelievable.

>>5197829
>For three score and ten turnings of the clock

Proper DM response to anything but a very very dense cake: "Your cake is burnt because you left it in the oven too long."

Seriously man, if you're going to go all flashy and shit, at least think about what you're doing. a cake should (depending on density) take anywhere from 30-40 minutes, with 20 and 50 being less likely but still possible.

>>5197826
Not all were ambushed at that party. A lot were hunted down later.

>>5197896

It's a *magic* cake. The materials used are probably just slightly heat-resistant, so it needs a hotter flame and more time to bake properly. Seriously, no need to nit-pick; the guy did a good job.

>>5197896
sorry, that probably seemed a bit overly critical. It was a great description, but for someone who knows what they're doing if you're crafting something, that would be a killer. I mean, it would be like someone describing this hugely elaborate and awesome gunfight that's about to take place and have the PC say something like "I cock the barrel and hold on tightly to the hammer."

>>5197898

Fair enough. My point remains valid, though. What exactly did his past incarnation do to so draw her ire? You know, besides dieing.

>>5197913
I said that in my next reply, and also explained why I thought it was almost a deal-breaker. If the PC added to that after the fact, I would probably give him the full bonus, but even so, if you don't know the basics, you should probably check to make sure first.

>>5197937

That's a good point. I still don't think it detracts overmuch from the description, however, for reasons I've already pointed out. While initially jarring to someone who actually knows what he's talking about, it can easily be rationalized. Especially because its Exalted.

>>5197938
It was more of a result of randomly disappearing for a decade or so on a regular basis without saying anything while he went and worked on his random projects. He also ditched her when he went to go hide in his fortress/workshop manse and didn't take her with him.

>>5197962

Ah, that makes sense now. I didn't initially understand because I didn't know the full story. Carry on.

>>5197960
Honestly, I'm not terribly familiar with exalted, but my group wants me to DM (or ST or whatever) something for them, and this thread has inspired me to look into this. The whole group is pretty literary and I think they'd do some pretty good stunts.

>>5197886
Actually, that wasn't me, I was sort of stumped as to what to do.

>>5197896
Goddamnit, I'm so fucking ashamed of myself. This is unforgivable. The last cake I made was a cheesecake, real low and slow. It threw me off. I promise it'll never happen again, Anonymous. By which I mean making an erroneous statement with regard to cooking time of baked goods in a Mesopotamian/animu power fantasy RPG.
But seriously, I'm always unhappy with the slapdash attitude towards food culture designers seem to have. I'm always trying to throw a little something extra in, and to fuck up like this really is embarrassing for me.

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>>5196742

Is this the game with the dorf Dragonblood and the Lunar who basically told Malfeas' laws to go fuck themselves to get his babymamma back?

I have a slightly less action-packed story than most of those. Sorry, my writing isn't very polished.

Once upon a time, along the sandy shores of an island not far from An-Teng, lived a small and clever boy. Day in and day out, he fished with his father and brothers, and dreamed of seeing the world.

When the new governor came, resplendent in the heraldry of a far-off Isle, burning with Dragon-power in his very blood, the boy was fascinated...though, truth be told, this was very much because the governor also came with a beautiful daughter.

>>5198728

He plied her with flowers and bright shells, in exchange for stories. In time, he learned to read from her, to speak the languages of the Realm in the midst of their blooming mutual affection. It was around this time that he was selected as the apprentice of his clan's shaman, for there was still need of those who knew the local spirits, even with the monks of the Realm present. He trained hard, before the bent-backed old man, but soon learned that it would be a life of carving talismans and kowtowing to the Immaculates. There was honor in it, yet he had seen the magic of the Blooded, and yearned to impress the lovely girl, now a stout but comely Daughter of Earth, with magic of his own. Hearing tales of barbaric theurges who bent the Wyld to their whims to waken their Essence, he fled his home under cover of darkness. The small and clever young man went from ship to ship, port to port, sometimes coming away beaten and penniless, other times in fine silks and with other men's money lining his pockets. Finally, he found an island rumored to be Fae-haunted yet stable, where the barbarians of old had performed dire rites, and paddled a coracle out to it.

>>5198744

The Raksha danced that night, pulled by the currents of chaos as the waves were pulled by Luna's gaze in the sky. It was precisely the wrong night to be a mortal on that island, during their revel. The youth did not afterwards recall how he managed to lose them after being discovered, yet when he found himself alone on the beach of silver sand, he found an old crone waiting for him on a solitary boulder, laughing until her ribs rattled.

When finally she had regained herself, she thanked him for the entertainment his antics had brought her. He explained to her why he had came and what he sought, and as a gift for making her laugh, she traced an empty circle of silver on his forehead. When the sun had risen fully, fishermen reported seeing a strange sea-beast, manlike in proportions, heading with dogged determination Southward, heading for a small island off the coast of An-Teng

One of my stunts was when our circle in en even more high-powered game than usual was defending Nexus from the Mask of Winters (we lost, but it was a pretty good showing for our beginning characters).

Anyway, we were at the docks, trying to evac the citizenry while the undead were busy attacking. Some of them had hastily mounted Essence weaponry on several huge barges- think siege crossbows that fired explosions.

Well, we weren't gonna stand for this, so my character used Lambent Bolt of Destruction (I was Esence 5) on the nearest group of undead, then leaped from flying bodypart to flying piece of masonry until he went up as high as he could go, several hundred feet up in the air, before unleashing his Combo of Lambent Bolt and Essence Arrow between two barges, totally capsizing them and their weapons, as well as tipping the two nearest barges sideways into the water, sinking THEIR Essence weapons too. In one fell swoop, 1/3 of the enemy's heavy artillery got taken out, and my character managed to land on the deck of the ship we were taking as it took off (sorcery, dunno which spell).

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>>5198753

In any setting other than Exalted, I'd sense massive BAD END given that she's a Dynast and he's a (possibly Chimeric) Lunar.

>>5198892

the chimera thing is only AFTER lunar exaltation. Before... well, it's just garden-variety Magic Chernobyl.

>>5198753

No mutations, since he was only in there for one night, possibly less, and was tatooed well before he could asplode into Chimerism. He talked the Dynast girl into running off with him, too.

Anyone here had any experience with Infernals?

>>5199714
Infernals are rockin'* good fun, just as long as you don't mind being slightly weaker than a Solar or Abyssal. If they could learn Sid martial arts, it'd be awesome.

*Literally, in some cases.

>>5199756

Weaker how?

>>5199714
Fair warning for responsible players: the Infernals book is full of GIANT spoilers for the whole Exalted world. Don't read it out of idle curiosity.

>>5199820
Each Caste is subsumed by a separate Yozi, and each Yozi has it's own Charm themes, playstyle and even keywords. Their Charms have no Ability or Attributes requirement, meaning overall they are weaker, but have a lot of Permanent upgrades as you dump more xp into them. So their competencies are scattered deep in their trees and require high essence or several purchases to get the most out of, and rarely play well with eachother. With the 5 current Yozi Charm lists, they lack any War, Sail or Ride ability.

On the other hand, everyone has access to all Sorcery for the same cost.

On the whole they are more like a mechanically sound set of 5 mini-Exalted types which you get to cobble together to try and make one starting Celestial. It's pretty interesting.

>>5199820

The way their Charms wind is (intentionally) much more broad in potential in Solars, but also much less straightforward. Keep in mind that the Green Sun Princes have the potential to eventually become Primordials of their own - but that the Solars already *beat* the Primordials that were around in the first place.

>>5200429
>they lack any War, Sail or Ride ability.
The authors have noted that this was from a lack of page space, though. For example, Malfeas had War stuff that was cut, and if they'd had any room to go into Kimbery's Charms that most likely would have had some Sail.

Though, Infernals don't really need Ride, what with how easily they can buy into Adorjan's speed bonuses, even cross-type.

>>5200469
It'd be pretty awesome to be able to create your own mutated demonic horse-monster, though.

Maybe Kimbery will allow it, she's already got Kimbery's Dawn bent into a ship, so why not make a skittering horror out of a couple tomescu and blood apes mashed together with binding acids?

OP, in case you haven't seen it, the core Exalted book honestly has the simplest, clearest description of what a stunt is and how to pull them off.

Also, I'm not so sure about taking the rival background. Yes, you're character may hate the raksha, but i rivalry has to go both ways.

What makes for a good limit break really depends on your primary virtue. Take that viture and crank it to eleven (or turn it to zero, if you wanna go that way). As long as you do that you should be alright.

>>5200554
>What makes for a good limit break really depends on your primary virtue.

Total extremes of personality are good too. Limit break in general is a way of thinking "What if my character stayed exactly the same, but was instead a total douchebag about things?"

PHYLACTERY WOMB

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>>5200698
That girl is freaky. If she was older I would'nt mind it so much

>>5200554
>>Also, I'm not so sure about taking the rival background. Yes, you're character may hate the raksha, but i rivalry has to go both ways.

Right.

If you really want to represent a hatred of raksha, take a negative intimacy instead.

>>5200462
I'd like to note that the Solars could beat them when there were 300 + 300 lunars + 100 sidereals vs 23 Primordials.

And each GSP can become a combination of 2 Primordials...
Potentially more of them.

...and now I'm imagining 50 new Primordials suddenly appearing in Yu Shan and telling the gods to let the Yozi out.
And then making Gaia pay.

>>5199756
See, I'd say the Infernal could beat the Abyssal around in Creation.
Solars, sure, they get beaten by them, but when the hell doesn't that happen anyway?

>>5201032
You assume the Infernals are any better coordinated or communally minded than anyother Exalted. They aren't really.

I figure those few Infernals who survive all the way to 10 will eventually say Fuck This and wander out into the wyld and make their own Creation, causing a repeat of history.

>>5201032

There's also the fact that when they beat them they had MILLIONS of Dragonblooded footsoldiers and awesome essence based weaponry and artifacts, a lot of made directly by Autocthon.

Those things are kinda rare now - and there's only 10,000-ish DBs tooling about, and between the Infernals and Abyssals, there's only 150 actual Solars left, because the Neverborn and Deathlords and the Yozis fucked with the other half.

>>5201123
Look, you get to actually fuck an ex-Primordial - two if you're "lucky".

That is better than Luna got.


I figure, at least SOME of them are going to want to keep a good thing going.

>>5199756
Infernals have better excellencies than Abyssals, and an easier way of getting control of their torment.

Plus, Demons > ghosts when it comes to proper tools.

I think their Perfect Defensess are better than the Abyssals as well, at least in Creation.

>>5201123
>They aren't really.

Yes, they are. The Thing Infernal is pretty much what the Deliberative should have been.

>>5201123
MoEP: Infernal says you're wrong.

It has the Thing Infernal, where all Green Sun Princes come to talk out their issues with one another.

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>>5201270

Just because they have a meeting hall to hash things out doesn't mean they are all organized, team-oriented or pursuing the same agendas.

The Thing is simply Infernals putting on ironic Sidereal airs, to roughly the same effect.

>>5201567
Everyone in the Thing, during the 3 days the event lasts, can go ahead and complain about another Infernal, who then deals with it as appropriate.

Every single Infernal will get the chance to talk during this meeting.

They also work on keeping peace between one another, at least in terms of the Reclamation.

And they know that they are the only ones they've got.
There isn't anyone else who will fight for them - everyone wants to take their power from them and turn them into Solars again.

I'd say that they are much more united than the other Exalted out there.

>everyone wants to take their power from them and turn them into Solars again.

Actually, does it ever say this is possible anywhere? The Infernals book says a lot about the shards being chipped away at, not just simply warped. And there's canon precedence with Abyssals that all it takes is an Essence 5 Charm to lock them in as Abyssals, totally irredeemable in the eyes of the Unconquered Sun, forever.

Maybe the shards ARE wholly stripped out and incapable of repair?

>>5201898
Well, didn't it say Lytek or UCS could alter them back to a Solar form?

I could've sworn I remember reading about that somewhere.

>>5201933
They never say either way for Infernals, but Immortal Malevolence Enslavement makes no bones about how Redemption-minded Solars are on a time clock to You're-Fucked.

>>5201898

Screw that, this is EXALTED!

IMPOSSIBLE? I CALL IT A CHALLENGE!

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>>5200554
It's not so much an irredeemable hatred of all Fair Folk so much as it is wanting to stop this one from taking his sugar. He's likely to get swept up in it and enjoy it just as much as the Fae.

Though I have taken an Intimacy with the Fae, and with the beloved. I can't really think of anything else.

>>5202077
If only the Solars had some kind of divine ally, with ties to the Unconquered Sun himself...

BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>5196953

Please tell me someone has a higher-res copy of this.

How do you choose an exalted title ? For a dawn caste solar ?

Infernals are more organized because their "patrons" are not working at cross-purposes, unlike the Deathlords. The Yozis only have 50 Exalts and if they start killing each other over stupid arguments, they'll be PISSED. Except for Adorjan, who is merely scary ALL THE TIME

And you do not want to see a pissed off Yozis

>>5205235
Looks like an oekaki, so likely not.

Oh awesome, I didn't expect this to be bumped. No wonder I couldn't use these images again.
>>5207500
It's promo material for Lagann-Hen, so probably, but not on Danbooru.

>>5205235
bump
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2nd

Has anyone here played an Infernal yet?

>>5208029
Yes. It is all sexy times.

I'm gonna redirect this a little bit, and start talking about how crazy-awesome Sidereal martial arts are. They can literally punch people out of existence, or kill every non-exalted on the blessed isle with one combo. But my favorite would have to be punching the universe so hard it creates another universe for you to fight in. That's so stupid it's awesome.

>>5208111
I like the one where you punch them so hard the only face they can see is yours on everyone they know/met. Their girlfriend, their mother, the chef in the restaurant, even the guy who asked for obols on the corner street.

They only see YOU. And it lasts FOREVER.

>>5208141

Or punching them so hard that they become geniuses but can't speak, write, or communicate in any way, shape, or form. Pretty much anything in The Border of Kaleidoscopic Logic Style is both awesome and makes you wish you were dead.

>>5208180
>The Border of Kaleidoscopic Logic Style
>The Border of Kaleidoscopic
>Border

...!!

Oh my god, it all makes SENSE now! She's a Sidereal!

>>5208192

I'll bet she also knows the Violet Bier of Sorrows Style.

>>5208062

Have you done anything interesting yet?

Stunting in Exalted is fairly is easily in Exalted. I recall one time when I exploded an enemy inside out as a Zenith Martial Artist.

Too bad the game didn't last long. Ah well, t'was fun regardless

>>5208029
SWLiHN Scourge

I run around and kill everyone with my mind.

Lat thing we did was free the Yozi, build up an empire in the Wyld and invade in eternal waves, forcing everyone else to get on the defensive.

We won, and as thanks we each got some of the heads of the old bureaus to toy with.

Now we are, beyond the Third Circle Souls, the highest authority of the Yozi.

We all have very fun constantly thanking Chejop for doing what he did.
Often while torturing some Sidereal Exalted until they accept to become an Akuma.

The Incarnae are now utterly mindless and only perform their assigned duty of protecting Creation/handling the Loom.

Autochton was made into a prison for Gaia, and we Infernals now go and mock the two of them all the time.
Because we love to remind them what they did.

Life is good.
Especially if you have a harem of Neomah slaves for fun times as Angyalkae demons play a soothing music and others sing and dance your praise.

>>5202077
Hey, great, that means the Green Sun Princes will be allowed to fight off any chance to ever become Solars again, right?