lol
#Exalted
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marsh garden
isn't it 5?
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nope
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OH
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it's just a really efficient 4 dot
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I'M THINKING RADIANCE
bleak hazel
my murder build actually has relatively poor overwhelm, only 4, but he has the fusion punch combo so if his E5 incarnation hits you you just lose 9-10 init, flat, and he gets 2-3
limpid badge
our circle's abyssals are so fucking cute and then there's arby over here who is only cute if you can ignore her Hideous (covered in horriffic scars that weep black ichor and open into hungering maws)
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it's kinda gimmicky and not in.a godod way
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that's the 5-dot that i just genuinely don't remember what it does
bleak hazel
searing edge attack w/ 1 withering damage autosux cares not for your Aegis of Invincible Might
you punch the -5 postsoak solar with your bare fist, roll 0 dice of damage and crash them
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our circle's abyssals are so fucking cute and then there's arby over here who is...
you say that, but then you post adorablesparklingprincess.jpg
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post soak dmg upon ye
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Bandages from her cheeks getting bited
bleak hazel
not even that, it reduces post-soak dice by 5
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My abyssal.is juat a pirate dude covered in scara
fierce star
I understand I am not God's Most Normal Person and therefore finding such things adorable is probably abnormal, however
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including the one that took out his hearr
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Bandages from her cheeks getting bited
those are to Hide how Wide Her Mouth Goes
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10/10 would hug
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Aww
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it's fine, the lover gave him a better one
bleak hazel
it strictly works on damage roll autosux and a second withering charm that triggers if your damage has any successes
bleak hazel
so your roll of 0 dice gets 1 sux, Searing Edge Attack triggers and they lose 1 + (essence) init
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it strictly works on damage roll autosux and a second withering charm that trigg...
lol, jesus
bleak hazel
very funny
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what's the one free hit from?
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i am.reminded of when infernals.melee got released
south spade
Jesus fuck its a heavy??
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and people butched about the lack of withering boosters
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munch
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nit realizing
that there aren't even tgat many withering attack biosters in solars
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heavies are kind of bad in 3e compared to the other two types
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you say that, but then you post ``adorablesparklingprincess.jpg``
dollmakers do not capture the extent to which she is frankenstiened together out of the flesh of her dead servants and demon-juice
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so this is unideal vs being a medium
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i5's just that the one they have
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but it's very fitting
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is stupid good
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IT GIVES EXALTS GANGRENE??
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OVERBITE is good
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nor do dollmakers let me give her the parasitic umbilical cord covered in eyes that she uses to steal people's souls and make them her servants
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yerp
prisma sun
I think as long as he wasnt fighting in a flat white room Drifts has the tricks to kill a soak beast
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Infernals combat kit
bleak hazel
what's the one free hit from?
bleak hazel
you do need the mastery
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ahhh, crane adds autosux on damage
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IT GIVES EXALTS GANGRENE??
oh baby it can do so much more
bleak hazel
but when it works you can punch through anything
south spade
Are those additional traits you can buy fornit?
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IT GIVES EXALTS GANGRENE??
wait until you see that infernals can give exalts radiation posioning
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Are those additional traits you can buy fornit?
ye
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oh baby it can do so much more
my plans for arby's pesilitent hunger bite is Rabies and her Devil-Fever Ravages is Green Sun Wasting (Radiation poisoning)
merry arch
our circle's abyssals are so fucking cute and then there's arby over here who is...
reveler has hardly ever talked to women before Siran, Arby and Shoat and doesn't understand that he's giving the princess a complex
limpid badge
what if the baby could give you rabies. what about that.
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this is mainly a word count saving tech
merry arch
reveler has hardly ever talked to women before Siran, Arby and Shoat and doesn't...
too much of a fucking nerd. reading too many fucking books
loser
velvet raft
Hm. Trying to decide whether the Mask of Winters would send material support to someone in the ScavLands getting ready to give the Walker a run for his money
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those are essentially new charms/repurchase upgrades
velvet raft
Like, is the Mask that petty?
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yes
merry arch
yes absolutely
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the Mask is extremely petty
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if he thinks the goober will just run off and not actually fight the Walker
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no he's not giving you those stacks
clever steeple
Like, is the Mask *that* petty?
Yes
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but if he thinks you'll actually do it...
bleak hazel
hilariously one of the many things Crimson Rain gets in fights with the High Families about is that he's technically a commoner and took over a low-prestige trading guild rather than a proper Skullstone noble's commission, despite the fact that he acts like the most born-heir aura farming aristocrat possible
velvet raft
Y'all have echoed my thoughts
bleak hazel
big cloaks, huge entourages carrying chests of money
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bleak hazel
so the most princelike guy in the party is not actually one
(well, he's a deathknight, but still)
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I think the only Deathlord that isn't some level of pet- wait no
Lion is petty
he's just basrard petty
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the Lion is absurdly petty
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Varan's ruin
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They're all at least a little petty
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is extremely petty
bleak hazel
Mask is the king of pettiness
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the Dowager isn't very petty
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Dowager isn't very petty now
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because she's had all the sarcasm exploded out of her
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yeah
velvet raft
but if he thinks you'll actually do it...
And yes he thinks there's gonna be a huge fuckin' battle and the Walker might actually, plausibly, lose
spiral cosmos
what r u feeling reminds u of eva
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side note
playding warframe
really.gives me an idea of how to do first age shenanigans
the Orokin and all.of their bullshit
seems.like good fodder for peak firat age decadence bullshit
prisma sun
Someone equated the Orokin to the yozi and I largely agree
knotty islandBOT
The whole 'inscrutable alien presence from The Heavens™' but I suppose I'm mostly reminded specifically of Ramiel; The shifting forms of light and angular shape, the inability for humans to communicate with them without breaking their brains, the destructive heavenly lightbeams, etc
borb ↩️
velvet raft
the problems with hedgehogs
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Someone equated the Orokin to the yozi and I largely agree
i can kinda see that in terms of pettiness but
the orokin are way too human
velvet raft
This is going over my head
I have been known to maintain that Eva is just about the Hedgehog's Dilemma mentioned in episode 4, like that's a significant portion of the show's literal and thematic elements
So I make hedgehog jokes about Eva
spiral cosmos
o that makes sense
knotty islandBOT
what gk said or what I said, or both? XD
borb ↩️
also yeah that's fair lmao
gkathellar (he/him) ↩️
spiral cosmos
What u said, tho i don't disagree
It's fun to hear takes on devil-stars i wouldn't have thought of
wise ocean
vbos my beloved. extremely funny how graves is purpose-made to counter torchlight as characters I'm running simultaneously
wise ocean
watch this (deploys 23 soak on main)
you're like little baby. overwhelm 15
fortunately because torchlight is a comic book villainess she can then just fly away while dramatically shaking her fist and declaring She'll Get You Next Time
mighty rover
Bluesky
knotty islandBOT
Stepnix ↩️
merry arch
IT'S TRUE
fading cypress
(sorry i was being a vampire in deadlock)
merry arch
you're allowed
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its okay this was correct and good and now you get to be a vampire dollie in exalted
i knew my friend val would like the "daughter" of an insane witch-hag
merry arch
TRUE
fading cypress
i knew my friend val would like `the "daughter" of an insane witch-hag`
you know me well
spiral cosmos
mun four... mun four my beloved
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i love the dowager so much
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i hope she gets cool things in riders
tulip folio
Makes note 'Random endings sid that turns up to battles and goes I Think Everyone Should Die' as an NPC
spiral cosmos
mun four getting things in riders is not what anyone meant but it is a funny img
like she just shows up randomly in different underworld locations
prisma sun
I thought Mun Four was in agents
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like she just shows up randomly in different underworld locations
okay that would be pretty incredible
"i show up in companion books now"
spiral cosmos
like valdris
spiral cosmos
🏃♀️💨
bleak hazel
She's invented mirrorshades, clearly making her the coolest person in the setting
knotty islandBOT
How unbalanced would it be to have a version of flesh-and-bone wind as a sorcery?
merry arch
the effect exists as a necromancy and is balanced so i'm going to say not unbalanced
knotty islandBOT
Fair
I mostly ask because I am making a sorcerer who by dint of being a Lintha and an owl is
fairly fixated on entrails <XD
merry arch
yah, abyssals says to make necromancy versions of existing spells so i dont really think it's bad form to do the reciprocal in kind
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it's one of the only things that necromancy does, so i definitely wouldn't like it if they printed a canon one, but for your game do whatever
spiral cosmos
oughhhhhh
knotty islandBOT
Coolcool
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yah, abyssals says to make necromancy versions of existing spells so i dont real...
ehhh, i wouldn't take it the other way
knotty islandBOT
oh no I think borb has an opinion about that
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oughhhhhhhhhhhhh abyssals necromancy section
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necromancy is uh
knotty islandBOT
I am about to be smote
merry arch
ok i stepped on a landmine killing myself /j
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so letting sorcery also do its thing means it's entirely useless
but converting for home games is converting for home games
merry arch
i will see myself out
velvet raft
Yeah there are topics I think sorcery should probably leave to the necromancers
spiral cosmos
im putting my girlfriend to smeep for a nap and must not start gnashing my teeth about how much I dislike necromancy's presentation as being able to share almost any hypothetical spell with sorcery if you just twist a few details
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lmao
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or else it will wake her and she will torture me with more insane 3e builds
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LMAO
knotty islandBOT
<XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
velvet raft
Stuff to do with souls, and the void, and the undead, and etc.
knotty islandBOT
runs away
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i just wish that sorcery was more restricted
velvet raft
There could stand to be like
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and that there weren't so fucking many sidebars in abyssals for so many things that say "yeah you can steal this :)"
"the themes of this book don't matter bro just do whatever :)"
velvet raft
A concrete list of spells that can be both sorcery and necromancy
Rather than just telling you to draw the owl
spiral cosmos
I literally said we should make a list
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"convert an abyssal to a solar, it's fine. swap sorc and necro it's all g"
spiral cosmos
They did not
velvet raft
It's not like there are that many spells!
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it really ain't
knotty islandBOT
...
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They did not
I'm gonna cry
knotty islandBOT
would flesh and bone wind have made the list
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why would they say no
spiral cosmos
You already have DOOB and FotBR don't be greedy!
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it can't have been too many extra pages, no?
velvet raft
why would they say no
DRAW THE OWL
Ionas have you considered just giving the lunar necromancy
Lunars are specifically equally good at both
knotty islandBOT
Briefly, but there are some thematic pressures against, in my estimation
The most important in this case being his status as a Lintha, the literal family of demonblooded sorcerer pirates who would denigrate him for doing that shit instead of sorcery
When he is intended to at least partially be a social climber
The second most important being he is Literally A Warlock
of Ululaya
Admittedly that second part is something he decided to do, but part of that calculation was the fact that being a warlock of one of Kimbery's 3CDs is a helluva feather in the cap
for a Lintha
The obvious answer to these conundrums is
'Do both'
In which case I have no real counter, have a wonderful day
velvet raft
Yeah do both :P
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Rather than just telling you to draw the owl
took me a sec to realizd the joke.here
knotty islandBOT
...
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so.i was looking at the screen like "What do you mean by owl"
knotty islandBOT
if this is a joke about me gk I'm gonna fuckin kill you (as a friend)
Oh
Wait no I do know this joke
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nay, just a reference to the bad art tutorial meme
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3e homebrew in a nutshell
velvet raft
Delilah mentions it frequently enough that it's on my mind re: Exalted
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that really is how it feels.to play exalted and come on to one of the like
50 different things that you need to.homebrew
but have ti either lack guidance
or go scrounging
velvet raft
This is how Essence Induction Technique makes me feel, it's true
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god i don't even remember whicg charm.that is
velvet raft
It's the E5 Occult charm where you make a spirit
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i think the most annoying part is how insistent some folks are that it's a plus and not a minus
i like homebrew
velvet raft
That is supposed to gain experience with you
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i've dipped my toes into exalted homebrew by now, albeit none of it what anyone could call good
but
i like homebrew best when i have helpful guidelines and when i don't feel obligated to do it
velvet raft
Note: there are no rules for making the spirit, and no rules for it spending experience
The charm is clearly meant to be like
An Occult Supernal Solar's schtick
"I have a cool spirit buddy"
But it has no actual rules
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It's the E5 Occult charm where you make a spirit
ah
right
that fuckin bitch
god Occult in core ia
such a fucked charm list
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such a fucked charm list
nothing's as bad as socialize and its "make a new character sheet :))) you have +100% xp now yippee"
or like, +300% if you buy a bunch of alters
with their own entire fucking charmsets, ability lists, and i think even attribute spreads
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Survival
survival is the worst tree
because someone could be tricked i to investing into survival
wise ocean
or else it will wake her and she will torture me with more insane 3e builds
necromantic isob
ever-popular for good reason
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i do want to make a necro tank spell, i just need to figure out a hook to make it interesting and on-theme
knotty islandBOT
There's also that other necro spell that I'm gonna take, now that this Lintha is a necrosorc
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
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da boids
crow storm is so fucking funny
i love it
i'm so glad BIS's backer asked for it
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So is this the kinda setting where all necromancy is objective evil?
south spade
Oh ball okay
I hate when necromancy is arbitrarily evil
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not inherently evil
knotty islandBOT
But it's no morally worse than sorcery
south spade
Like “oh even raising a zombie tortures the soul forever”
knotty islandBOT
All magic in Exalted, sorcery and necromancy, gives its practitioners Certified Weird Vibes
spiral cosmos
ever-popular for good reason
she got into exalted by looking at an essence sma that was kind of broken on its release version i think, as a way to find elaborate funny mechanical pairs to torture me with
awful girl
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Like “oh even raising a zombie tortures the soul forever”
making ideal use of necromancy is slavery
because summoning ghosts is very useful
this is not different from sorcery
knotty islandBOT
And not different from being
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where summoning demons is even better
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Like “oh even raising a zombie tortures the soul forever”
Necromancy is.inherently nasty
but not evil
because it is filtered through the neverborn
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and yeah it's not ontologically evil, it's just you choosing to use the powers that torture and/or enslave people
because they're very good at their job
knotty islandBOT
Yeah necromancy is rather more gross than most sorcery
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there's some less vile necro like the bone throne
knotty islandBOT
blood, bone, flesh and sinew and all that
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but it's still about grime and gristle and subjugation
it's supposed to be, at absolute minimum, rather uncomfy
knotty islandBOT
Emily have you seen the show Twilight of the Gods?
The character Seid-Kona from Twilight of the Gods makes a good blueprint for an Exalted necromancer imo
south horizon
it's supposed to be, at absolute minimum, rather uncomfy
to the living is the caveat there
spiral cosmos
i don't think necromancy is very nice to ghosts either
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there are a few necrimancy spells that offer succor to the dead
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a few, for sure
and stuff like flesh-sloughing wave that ignores em entirely
but you still have slavery time
and ghost-mutilating buttons
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glamces at dmeon.summoning
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well yeah
prisma sun
I do think giving a blanket statement of "if you want to reflavor these mechanics go ahead" is good for the record because sometimes homebrewing is hard
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i said that demon summoning is both absurdly optimal and pretty evil already, i think
knotty islandBOT
yeah demons are less
bullshit faff than making undead minions
at least upfront
On the back end, a talented necromancer can get three minions for the price of one; the body, upper soul, and lower soul
labor, specialized skills, bestial and hungry rage
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i said that demon summoning is both absurdly optimal and pretty evil already, i ...
my point was more that sorcery has the same dichotomy, just for the living
marsh garden
i know, but i like
literally prefaced my entire talk with that
sorcery also has everything in infernals
for evil shit
and the face stealing spell in mfs
etc etc
that was part of my initial point
that they're both pretty grody
south horizon
Ye, but i was saying that Necromancy only has to be at a base level uncomfy from the perspective of interactions with the living. If you're focused on the dead you can have much more relatively chill effects
there just aeen't that many necayae a majority of users of necromancy are insane and tied to the neverborn to some.degree
south horizon
basically, necromancy can.be chill if.the main.target of the spell is a dead person
it just isn't typically.used that way because.most.necromancers are assholes
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*aren't that many becauzs
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i see
i kind of fundamentally disagree
summoning is the main draw, it's still slavery
Abhorrence of Breath makes ghosts ontologically hate you
south spade
Oh i like that Threaten isnt necessarily stupid
As an action
Because its the only one that basically needs no intimacies
As long as you can provide A Consequence
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Creeping Calcification is indiscriminate and pretty torturous to spirits, including ghosts
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again
marsh garden
"can" and "is by default" are different
the aesthetics of necromancy, the fact that most necromancers don't leave ghosts because necromancy is weirdwrong, the amount of it that's just
about hurting people with the unnatural state of death
it presents a certain image
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i dom't disagree but unles si'm mistaking
there are chill spells.that are mainly targeted at ghosts
which shows the potential
marsh garden
there is potential for comfort with the dead, yeah
south horizon
ye, that's my gist. Necromancy could be used in a more chill way in regards to the dead but 90% of the practioners who study it are either working with or influenced by the Neverborn so that colors a lot
potential vs the lived reality
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i mean, i disagree that it's "its potential" so much as "a careful and narrow way to use it"
south horizon
3e makes it clear that the Neverborn are not the sole arbiters of the underworld this go around
just the biggest
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They're why it exists as it does now
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this colors it and everything around it forever
no
they're why a thing called the Underworld exists
before the Neverborn, there was not an Underworld
there was the Lethe
there was nothing in the Lethe
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i'm pretty sure 3e introduced some vibe that there was a space before
marsh garden
there was the Sea of Shadows, and we don't really know if there was anything in the Sea of Shadows
but there was no Underworld
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but i don't have the time.to.double check since i'm at work
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but i do remember because i remember people.complaining about it elsewhere
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it, and everything it has ever been and likely will ever be, is forever warped by its origin
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The Old.Laws are a thing that exist before
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this doesn't mean it can't be anything else
but it means that it will always be influenced by this
unless someone flushes them, of course
south horizon
Assumingnthat doesn't flush everything else
which, as always, is ST dependant
i love the neverborn and yozi's as just monuments to the consequences to even justified actions
The primordials were tyrants that had to be taken down, but also, doing so has had unseen ramifications that can never be cleanly.undone
marsh garden
i mean, also the way they "took down" the yozis was pretty unambiguously evil
which is very relevant to the setting's themes
tulip folio
im putting my girlfriend to smeep for a nap and must not start gnashing my teeth...
Now I feel a bit bad my Lunar has a sorcery swap bone throne, as plants grow up into a natural seat for her.
knotty islandBOT
Was wondering what this storm-themed Lintha Warlock was gonna take for Eclipse Charms, and then It Hit Me
Major Hellish Investiture allows him to take this
Well, if the ST agrees such a charm is on-theme for an Ululaya warlock which he may not!
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Oh ball okay
I hate when necromancy is arbitrarily evil
Necromancy is gleaned from the Whispers of the Neverborn and the ravings of Specters. It is a dark art of the underworld, a broken mirror of sorcery and full of unwholesome might for those willing to risk their soul dredging the secrets of dead titans from the edge of the pit.
south spade
knotty islandBOT
Do I make my Lintha a weird Kimber/Ululaya and Encarnadine Path sycnretic cultist...
south horizon
we. love syncretism
spiral cosmos
i said that demon summoning is both absurdly optimal and pretty evil already, i ...
i like, outlined and did a development pass on the Infernalism section (though i didn't write it exactly, that was Omicron, but it was like a collab from my first vision) and i'm pretty pleased with the case it makes
in general i think it's kind of just beamed in from another dimension where the rest of the book is as good 🗿 but i think it holds up
knotty islandBOT
I think I gotta tbh, it makes him a cohesively fucked up, blood-obsessed freakLunar
Son of a Nice Lady ↩️
spiral cosmos
before the Neverborn, there was not an Underworld
Would that there were only the waters, with none to linger there and witness them. Alas, instead, there is the Underworld. There could be no greater tragedy.
god who fucking put that second comma there
i should be allowed to kill that editor with a hammer
it's not as bad as the mutilation my alchemicals work got but still
south horizon
oof
but also glad to see i did not hallucinate that insinuation
since i thiiiink that's a big erinkle.to what Liminals.and Yhe Dark Mother represent in the vibes of the underworld
wise ocean
Necromancy is gleaned from the Whispers of the Neverborn and the ravings of Spec...
There is something to be said for the idea that merely listening to the Neverborn is not an abdication of moral position; indeed, nor is necessarily putting their teachings into practice. A necromancer may source their blood from the standard village slaughter of goats at the turn of the moon, and their bones from the unburied dead of the Realm's battlefields as that vast empire begins its long march towards autocannibalism. They may draw their pain from that inflicted by others, and in so doing wash their hands of the matter - as this righteous necromancer might say, a true and deeply spiritual student of the sourceless and eternal and inevitable suffering of the Neverborn, someone was going to do it anyway. They may as well also benefit. Stated in such a manner, free from the righteous necromancer's heady thoughts of power without common price, the abyss that yawns open in front of such a creature and the altar of simple rationalism becomes starkly apparent.
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`There is something to be said for the idea that merely listening to the Neverbo...
ALL THOSE THINGS YOU DESIRE
CAN BE FOUND HERE IN THE FIRE
wise ocean
I have given Much Thought to this for my necrosid and how it very starkly literalizes the Cold War utilitarianism practiced by the various intelligence agencies
To see across the world, one literally sacrifices five innocent lives. Such is the price of power
limpid badge
its not that different from the Divorce Beam
south horizon
the what
wise ocean
cash and murder games, iirc
south horizon
oh are u talking avout the sid charm.that makes you unlovable
ah
not shun the smiling lady
god that charm
is so fucked
wise ocean
though the natural touchstone in the charmset that directly relates is dead spouse defense
prisma sun
The Verminous Cockroach Emperor Who Will Devour Heaven If Given One Step Of Quarter
is a really good name for a behemoth
clever steeple
An Occult Supernal Solar's schtick
When I read it
I was expecting like "Oh they're gonna write specific rules for how to distribute skills and dots for Spirit NPCs(not good but they were there) like the CofD books do, kinda annoying to simply point towards them without a pg ref but whatever."
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i kinda have been using demon templates a lot. This is how i built Arby’s Horrible Ogre. He’s a blood ape with a babby excellency
velvet raft
The demon templates in Infernals help so much
marsh garden
yeah, i'm glad there're demon and machine spirit templates
i really hope we get similar ones, but if not at least i can steal those
and do surgery on them for other spirits
tulip folio
Terrestrial Geomantic Initiation
Cost: —; Mins: Intelligence 3, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
Unlike mortals, the Jadeborn's essence is designed to be shaped in intricately designed patterns that do not make for natural combat sorcerers. However, in turn, that mastery of patterns and their deep connection to the dragon lines of creation makes them natural experts at countermagic and geomancy.
The Jadeborn is initiated into Terrestrial-Level Sorcery, gaining one Terrestrial-Circle Control Spell. Their unusual nature however has the following differences to normal sorcerers:
• She treats all spells as Ritual Spells and cannot learn Shaping Rituals (Though they may still learn the merits associated with their initiation method, such as a Soul-Perfecting Elixir).
• She is treated as having knowledge of all spells of a circle she is initiated into for the purpose of Counterspelling and Distortion.
• Once per story she may ignore the experience cost for a sorcerous working that involves Crafting, Geomancy or Undoing A Spell.
Playing about with Jadeborn Magic. Pondering how this feels relative to a normal terrestrial sorcery access charm. You can't get Combat Magic but they're a bit better with counterspelling and workings.
fierce star
I like it, it's very thematic
tulip folio
...so, I just realized something very funny. The martial art best at dealing with the Lover Clad In Raiment of Tears?
Black Claw
As the martial art with an express 'grabbed your heart' charm and the Lover's demiurgic art not being usable if she's lost her heart.
Are you a toxic enough martial artist to gaslight, girlboss and gatekeep the Lover Clad In Raiment of Tears?
clever steeple
Strongest girlboss of today vs strongest deergirl of history
velvet raft
...so, I just realized something very funny. The martial art best at dealing wit...
Omg
wise ocean
... holy shit you're right
fierce star
outgirlboss the girlbosser
become girlbossest
... do you think Venus knows Black Claw style?
knotty islandBOT
Very, very possibly
Kijamano almost certainly does
I do imagine Black Claw is a popular choice for the more (gender)boss amongst the Cerulean Lute
Also fuck I came in here to ask a question but answering your question combined with my pdf reader crashing made me forget it
OH!
Would brigandine, in people's mind, be better represented as Light or Medium armor?
fierce star
I'd lean medium as well
knotty islandBOT
I'm leaning light, but admittedly based on limited exposure to examples of brigandine that are not European
And in those cases a kind of brigandine that would basically be a replacer for the breastplate
which by itself in this system is light
I agree the larger coats of plates going down to like
The knee
are most definitely medium
wise ocean
breastplate is only light for artifact and heavier in mundane, no?
wise ocean
huh, there we have it
marsh garden
hough
i want to make an exigent...
but i don't want to make a full fucking balanced charmset
despair
spiral cosmos
simply start with figuring out what u can steal and reflavor
fierce star
This is why I am waiting for alchs companion for my main exigent, the Chosen of Charkaid, God of Warstriders. I am going to stela so much from the warstrider martial arts.
colossus martial arts
those things
big boy punch good
fierce star
hrm
I think historian would want to be lore supernal, which isn't int he eclipse list unfortunately
knotty islandBOT
Ah, but I present this as a counterpoint!
IterationDrive (Backer 8) ↩️
Histories (when they're good), are meant to not just record what happened, they are meant to synthesize it into a greater knowledge gained than the sum of its parts and, in part, persuade the reader that this particular lens on the happenings recorded therein has more innate value than a dry recording of events and, possibly, other works trying to do the same thing
Linguistics Supernal
With Lore favored of course you need to know what the fuck you're writing about
But anyone with a lore specialty in a particular topic knows what is needed to then use their skill with Linguistics to write a quality, compelling treatise/history/etc on that topic
Now of course, given this is Exalted
Would this framing of a historian descend into borderline hagiography half the time because they become the subject of their histories?
Yes