What do you do with the characters of players who are no longer in your gaming group? Do they vanish? Become npc allies? Become villans? I'm really just cleaning what everyone does; our group (which has been around for about 20 years) has lost 6 PC's for various reasons and their experiences characters still remain. 2 are now major villains in the game, 3 faded off (as of now), and 1 is an npc ally.

Thanks for the input!

So I've been wondering about a homebrew setting. Or adapting one to the Exalted Storyteller system. Which is our modern earth.

So first of all, how would you model things like CRISPR or transgenic animals into exalted? Are things like golden rice and herbicide resistant plants a major project, or superior? What about the vaccinating bananas, or the spider silk goats?...

I've been spending a little time toying with the concept of the God Machine and how it would interact with Kindred existence and culture. As yet, I've only heard of a single minor covenant with any particular attachment to this... deity? Unknowable Cosmic Horror? Whatever the case may be.

The Kindred, as I understand them, possess a certain earnestness of ego stemming from a need for control. This is born from the Beast and the constant, perpetual knowledge of their own fragility. Ever present is the worry that their will and being will be subsumed by the whiles of the ravenous...