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[MoroseMorgan]

I like to think of them as an unintended type of spirit. The wyld mixed with the stuff of creation, creating you, fully formed with memories, intimacies, and hunger. You exist, but you are mutable. You can reshape your body and mind on a whim except when the true born of Creation do it to you.

Even before you factor needing to feed, a being that can just go "nope, I don't love you anymore" and shape away that intimacy suddenly exposed to a love they can't just wish away? That's the raksha.

Sometimes, being so mutable makes you jaded. You can do anything, so...

[MoroseMorgan]

I had read their posts as getting close to what I was seeing as the issue, and going the other direction with it (change things to match the dots we have, not change the dots we have to match reasonable outcomes), but that could just be me misreading. Don't want to mischaracterize anyone's statements.

I'll out myself as someone that doesn't mind, and even somewhat likes XP/BP divides, because incentivizing certain things at chargen over game growth is a nob to be dialed.
The problem is when you have XP/BP and scaling costs resulting in major deficits. Knowing you are reasonably...

[MoroseMorgan]

I'm still a little behind on reading the formatted pdf after the manuscript, but a quick glance I'm not seeing anything that disrupts MAttributes or MEdges? Happy to be wrong, otherwise there isn't much of a drawback to these suites....

[MoroseMorgan]

At around page 5 I glazed over, but this was a good thread to read (most of) as I'm about to get another Exalted game going.

I'll say, having played around in some other Exalted adjacent games recently, I've learned to appreciate the opportunity cost of Ability Dots, the power of TN7, and the glory of Double 10s.

At least by the part of this thread where I went crosseyed, no one had addressed the elephant in the room of just how many Ability Dots you get. If you have so many ability dots that putting 3 into Resistance is a no-brainer, then that is the problem. The base...

[MoroseMorgan]

I was speaking from my own personal experience with my mental illness, but I understand if that phrasing/depcition is uncomfortable for others. Apologies.

Edit: I could also see a cycle of internal conflict, striving for normalcy, then acceptance and revery in purchasing Chimera-Soul, Beast-Form Empowerment, then Shifting Beast Nature (potentially with house-rule or custom repurchase to accomodate the Chimera mutations, similar to the Beast-Form Empowerment clause)...