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Hi, welcome to Exalted 3rd, where the provided mechanics are not the setting's physics, and therefore setting elements that are not backed by direct mechanics are still valid setting elements.

It is absolutely true that the mechanics do not enforce an "It's easier to make high-level artifacts out of orichalcum than other materials" on the people playing the game. This does not, in any way, mean it can't be true that it's easier in-setting to make high-level artifacts out of orichalcum. That people at your table table don't suffer an explicit rules-imposed disadvantage for...

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Indeed, one thing one consistently finds in settings with metaplot is later-puublished versions that are resets, because people want the version of the setting from before it was messed up by metaplot.

The granddaddy of games with metaplot is Traveller. Every version of Traveller's setting published in the last quarter-century is one set in a universe where the published-in-1985 Rebellion and subsequent Virus are irrelevant. Most post-1995 versions use a setting material date prior to the date of the Rebellion, one used an alternate history where the Rebellion never happened, and...

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Metaplot is Lucy Van Pelt, constantly yanking the football away. Charlie Brown might never learn, but I do. I don't pay one red cent for games contaminated with metaplot....