Consequence Case Study: Exalted

February 3, 2012 from Life and Times of a Philippine Gamer
Filed under: advice, exalted, RPG Hub 
At the request of Lugh, we’re taking the discussion on consequences a little further today, and taking apart an actual game I’ve run and examined how consequences may have worked (or failed) in the context of[...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Session XXXIX – Gates of the Third Circle

January 25, 2012 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
Filed under: Background, campaign log, exalted, RPG, RPG Hub 
Hala’s little reverie hadn’t taken up much time – although she would like to know what caste her bondmate was… After twenty thousand years there was no easy way to find out much about who’d had your exa[...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Session XXXVIII – Out of the Umbra

January 23, 2012 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
Filed under: Background, campaign log, exalted, RPG, RPG Hub 
Sadly, despite Mr Montagues calling them in, the Nocturnals hadn’t been able to help out with the analysis much; there was just no way of knowing what WAS “normal” for a young primordial! Nobody even knew how they [...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XXXVII – Investigating Charles Mansen

January 19, 2012 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
Filed under: Background, campaign log, exalted, RPG, RPG Hub 
Over the next several weeks there was much frantic Sidereal scrambling to fit surveillance on Charles in between their usual duties – and immense amounts of frustration with the results of that surveillance. It was[...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XXXVI – Titanic Misperceptions

January 17, 2012 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
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A couple of weeks after Mr. Clearwater and Cipher Child had visited Charles – and about the same amount of time before the Bureau of Heaven would be announcing the results (someone HAD to be expediting that) there [...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XXXIV – Fiduciary Divine

January 12, 2012 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
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While Charles was busily building more manses to impersonate (or perhaps become) his “third-circle souls”, working on the Stargate project, mapping the earth’s dragon lines, running rescue missions, and otherwise k[...]
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Exalted – Let’s Take This Elsewhere!

January 8, 2012 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
Filed under: Background, campaign log, exalted, RPG, RPG Hub 
At least in our Exalted game the question of “How secure is Elsewhere” is coming up. To answer that, the first place to look is in the basic book, where “Elsewhere” is introduced. Charm Concept: Elsewhere Elsewhe[...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XXXIV – Annotations of Anonymity

January 1, 2012 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
Filed under: Background, campaign log, exalted, RPG, RPG Hub 
Charles didn’t know it – but his anonymous time was very rapidly drawing to an end… Like it or not, he’d simply meddled in too many things too quickly to remain in the background. The various groups on Yu[...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XXXIII – City and Soul

December 27, 2011 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
Filed under: Background, campaign log, exalted, RPG, RPG Hub 
After the tests, the Proctor very much wanted to talk to Charles… The minor antics of mortal and god-blooded thaumaturgic assistants could usually be safely ignored – but in this case, the child evidently had[...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XXXII – The City of Crystal Dreams

December 22, 2011 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
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After a few couple of weeks – and a dozen or so more rescues (which, with practice, were starting to go more smoothly – for the moment), Charles got a message from “a drunken shedu” up in Yu Shan.[...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XXXI – The Bicyclist of the Unpocalypse

December 21, 2011 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
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Now that Aden was more or less fully landscaped, it seemed a pity that there was hardly anyone there to enjoy it… Well… There were Yu-Shan gates all over the globe – including in a lot of troubled areas[...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Part XXX – And No, That Doesn’t Mean What You’re Thinking Out There!

December 9, 2011 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
Filed under: Background, campaign log, exalted, RPG, RPG Hub 
Hm… He was being watched by at least one observer and possibly more after he left to Occluded Observatory – and the effect traced back to it… Well, that was no surprise at all really. After all, he had [...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Part XXIX – Deva Cutter and the Bronze

December 8, 2011 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
Filed under: Background, campaign log, exalted, RPG, RPG Hub 
It was several weeks before Charles finally had an opening on his schedule – and the Deva Cutter affair seemed to be the priority to fill it… Sadly, just getting in to see the right people was going to be awk[...]
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Exalted – The Silver Fates and the Victory of Samsara

November 20, 2011 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
Filed under: Background, exalted, RPG, RPG Hub 
The Loom of Fate binds Creation. For each event it binds together billions of possible timelines and outcomes, fusing them into one consensual – or averaged – reality. By virtue of those interwoven threads of[...]
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Exalted – The Winding Way (Sidereal Manse **** or any Manse *****)

November 19, 2011 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
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The Winding Way is a spiraling path hewn from the living stone that winds through and up a small mountain. The narrow rune-inscribed way is never the same twice; a myriad possible, but mutually exclusive, ways lie before[...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Part XXVIII – Speculations on the Coming Darkness

November 15, 2011 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
Filed under: Background, campaign log, exalted, RPG, RPG Hub 
Aden was, as yet, a relatively small world – but it was beautiful, and welcoming, and supportive. It was also humming with power and activity, with thirty-odd major manses generating their guardians (of various typ[...]
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Exalted Domains of Storm & Savagery

November 13, 2011 from G*M*S Magazine
Filed under: exalted, pathfinder, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Hub 
This pdf from Super Genius Games is 11 pages long 2/3 of a page front cover, 1 page editorial & SRD, leaving 9 1/3 pages of content, so let's give these exalted domains a try, shall we? [...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Part XXVII – Hints and Allegations

November 12, 2011 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
Filed under: Background, campaign log, exalted, RPG, RPG Hub 
Things went along – if not well, than at least passably – for several weeks. That at least let him get a few more segments of Aden – and their Manses – done. New Manse Power: Dance of the Dragon L[...]
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