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[ajf115]

What with the whole thing around Withering and Decisive attacks, is it possible to be a sniper in Ex3?

[ajf115]

These are the ones in question:

WILL-WORKING ENTHUSIASM
Cost: 5m; Mins: Charisma 3, Essence 2; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Tyrant’s Heartfelt Hand
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. This Charm enhances any project roll the Lunar takes an active part in, reducing its Capital cost by one (this does not stack with other uses of this Charm). In addition, any modifiers – positive or negative – to the project’s dice pool applied by organizational intimacies are increased by (Lunar’s Charisma). These

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[ajf115]

Are there any functional organization systems for 3e, analogous to the old Creation-Ruling Mandate system? I'm doing a rough update of the Terrifying Argent Witches charms to 3e for the use of NPCs, and I need something to transpose the Charisma 'Command' charms based upon.

[ajf115]

I know that these are kinda obvious, and also fansplats but:

Genius: "Well, you see, Einstein was a passable mathematician, but he failed to understand that his (unjustly) famous equation which 'proved' that light is the 'universal speed limit' presumes that space and time are one and the same - this is patently ridiculous (You don't timetravel when you walk back to your house, do you? Pah!) and so the speed of light is, in fact, entirely surpassable without an infinite amount of acceleration."

- Dr. Prof. Maximus von Unmoglich III, member in good standing of...

[ajf115]

Well, I mean, there's a Mummy Kinship nightmare that does this, but it feels like something that should have an Atavism as well, now that the Inguma are a thing. With the BPG, it's moved from something they need to borrow other supernaturals' themes to do to something that feels native. That said, I'm not sure what the Atavism would be called, or how it would work without being too Nightmare-ish....

[ajf115]

GibberingEloquence , I like your mechanics better than my own, though I'll stand by my decision to put Inhuman Panoply with the Inguma. I can see your logic, but I personally feel that the 'thrust' of the Atavism, so to speak, is more about 'they match us in our uniqueness and make tools of things we cannot', rather than 'their crafts surpass us so completely that we cannot hope to match them'. Perhaps the Anakim crafting-Atavism is specifically focused around making better things than humans can? I'm not sure. Perhaps there's space for the Inguma to forge curses into things, ala Andvari and the...

[ajf115]

Ah, my (later) childhood returns....

[ajf115]

It's that 'with enough Plasm' bit that trips you up....

[ajf115]

Honestly, I can easily see them as a combination of all three - they certainly embody the fear of being trapped in a horrible social situation, with their Wake and Cults....

[ajf115]

I'm gonna quibble this one. I see your reasoning, but the Leviathans are intimately related to the fear of the deeps, outer space, the spaces between spaces, and the fear of drowning in madness....

[ajf115]

This is kind of a weird question, but how do people think a nova would experience their Quantum Points? Would it be reasonable to represent them, from their point of view as simply 'energy', in the context of "I've done so much work today, I'm totally out of energy," or would they get a more physical feeling of it, like a heat in their belly or a kind of electric feeling on their skin? Would the feeling vary depending on a nova's powers and 'paradigm', so to speak?
The
nova I'm writing from the perspective of has powers mostly themed around the manipulation of their own body...

[ajf115]

I remember 1e mentioning a number of other Progenitors (Sanna the Glacierhide is one I recall) doing the mythological rounds, so it's not impossible....

[ajf115]

Mostly the former, though advice on the latter would be very welcome as well....

[ajf115]

So, I'm running a game of Exalted, and my players (a pair of Twilights, one craft-focused and one a sorcerer, and a political Eclipse) are in a trading city in the Scavenger Lands, and the Eclipse has taken it upon herself to try and get the de facto ruler of the city, a godblood head of the local bigshot noble house, to restrict or preferably stop Guild trade of slaves through the city. And I have no idea how to deal with this.

Now, it's not as unrealistic as it could be, seeing as the nation they're currently in doesn't use slaves (they just trade in them, toooootally different...