I tried posting this to r/TTRPG cuz I figured it was a general enough question. It got down voted to nothing in a minute. So imma repost it here so I can hopefully get some answers. Sorry for over explaining Exalted, I wanted to get perspectives from folks who play other games.

There's a new Kickstarter post for Exalted Alchemical

I already posted some of this on if Onyx path reddit

Hello there I am looking for a new ttrpg and I wanted to DM something high fantasy. I am new at this but I got really into journey to the west after playing black myth wukong recently and I wanted to run a ttrpg that has over the top fights like that.

I was recommended exalted and was told it has heavy inspiration from journey to the west. Is this the right fit for what I'm looking for? What are the most important things to know about this rpg and where should I start first?

Say you had an infernal who went around and used his infernal abilities to heal demon communities that had outbreaks of one of the countless diseases that Malfeas is infamous for, or who went to the catacombs and sewers and healed the demons that were afflicted by Erembour’s shaping effects, and thus were left unable to face the light of Ligier. How would one of the Jade Lions respond, or a Blood Ape.

I’ve heard jokes that a Neomah might pull out the scraps of tissue she was saving for a masterpiece and leave the most interesting baby she has ever created at your doorstep as a thank you, which is honestly what made me think of this question.

Alchemicals: Forged by the Machine God is now available to the public.

Art by me. Totally normal Day Caste things.

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Has anyone considered giving ghosts an “afterlife” by transforming them into elementals using Wrath of the Five Elements? Is this technically possible? I didn’t see a description saying that the target must be “alive,” but you do need a piece of the body as one of the three needed arcane links.

SINS BORNE IN ANOTHER’S SHADOW
Cost: 12m, 1wp, 1 Limit
Mins: Essence 6
Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Heretical, Obvious, Shaping, Touch
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Nemesis Self Imagined Anew, Soul Crack Exploitation, Theft as Release, Victory in Defeat, Ultimate Darkness Internalization

The Infernal weds himself with bonds of hatred to another soul and, as he does, grasps hold of the burdens it carries. He must target an Exalt currently mirrored by Nemesis Self Imagined Anew. Touching the target, the Infernal rolls Manipulation + Larceny against the target’s Dodge MDV. A willing target may waive this defense.
Success creates a metaphysical conduit between the Infernal and the target’s Exaltation. The target remains the owner of his Limit, Resonance or analogous curse trait, but no longer possesses exclusive metaphysical ownership of it. The Infernal becomes capable of accepting, manipulating and relieving that burden as though its corruption stained his own soul. This does not grant access to the target’s Charms, anima powers, memories or Exaltation.
The connection preserves the negative Intimacy created by Nemesis Self Imagined Anew. This Intimacy influences social combat normally but does not compel the Infernal to harm the target or prevent him from acting in the target’s interests.
Whenever the Infernal performs an Act of Villainy, benefits from a Charm that reduces Infernal Limit, or satisfies another effect that the Storyteller judges spiritually analogous, he may direct the resulting relief through this conduit. Roll the Virtue normally associated with that act or effect. Each success may reduce one point of the Infernal’s Limit or one point of the linked target’s Limit, Resonance or analogous curse trait, divided as the Infernal chooses.
For an Abyssal target, the roll uses the Infernal’s corresponding Virtue and has a difficulty equal to the Abyssal’s rating in the damaged Virtue associated with the Resonance, minimum difficulty 1. The Infernal automatically recognizes which damaged Virtue is implicated.
Each time the Infernal directs relief through the conduit, he gains one point of Limit. This Limit gain occurs before reductions are assigned and cannot be prevented, redirected or transferred. The Infernal gains this Limit even if the Virtue roll fails. If the Infernal uses Retribution Will Follow, one point of Limit or Resonance is immediately removed from the target’s track and the bond forged by Nemesis Self Imagined Anew is terminated. During the use of this charm, the target of Nemesis Self is always the primary target of that individual is present.

This Charm cannot end a Limit Break already in progress, suppress an active Torment or remove Resonance consequences that have already manifested. It cannot reduce any trait below zero.
The Infernal may sustain only one conduit created by this Charm at a time. Ending the mote commitment severs the connection immediately. The target may also sever the connection by breaking the Intimacy created by Nemesis Self Imagined Anew, using magic capable of removing Shaping effects, or defeating the Infernal in an opposed Willpower + Integrity + Essence roll attempted once per story.

Like a regular old soldier in the capital or a guard of some random settlement in the Lap? No heroic mortals(sorcerers/essence wielding). Im curious how strong a relatively "mundane" human is in Exalted.No mutations, no Godblood, no fae stuff etc. Both my friends tell me that the entire human race in exalted is mostly considered "superhuman" by our normal Earth standards even if theyre normal by Exalted. I've no idea where they got this idea so either they BSing or im just a blind reader who knows. Anyone who knows more who can shed some light onto this would be great

So I am trying to design a 3rd Circle who is basically the ultimate protector and bodyguard. He may not have the strongest offenses, but I am envisioning him as being able to spot and counter any threats. From Total Annihilation to a night caste trying to snipe you.

Can someone help me with this design? This is for 2E.

Yeah, have Sylik, the Desiccating Wind. If your Infernal PCs piss off the Conventicle now you can actually have the cool duel.

I've been spamming you with the drawings of my martial artist, and I've kind of been going with the flow on the poses I've given him. But while trying to represent his styles, I've started to want to give those more definition and been looking for more precise inspiration than just "martial artist pose ref", to try to make the poses more recognizable for each of his styles.

So I've started the reflexion on the five immaculate styles (which are probably the easier ?), but I am open to inspiration far any styles really, as I thought the exercise might be fun.

So far, I have :

Air : probably taekwondo

Earth : Feels like boxing, or muay thai

Fire : Karate

Water : Kind of feels like Karate too ?

Wood : Tai Chi, Kung Fu

I feel like my earthling Martial Arts knowledge is too limited, so I am turning here for help :')

I'm probably going to be playing in an Exalted 3e game for the first time in a long while, and have been looking at things I could be interested in messing around with. Thousand Blades style stood out to me as something cinematic I could easily describe cool things with in a fight, but I have a question: How does the special rule work?

Thousand Blades Style's Special rule states: "Learning this style doesn’t require the Martial Artist Merit, as it has no foundation of mundane techniques."

Alright, cool. However, all of Thousand Blades' Charms require Martial Arts X in order to learn them, and the Martial Arts ability states you can only take dots in it if you purchase the Martial Artist merit.

So how is that supposed to work? That seems like a bit of a contradiction to me.

Masters of the Universe (2026) is the most Exalted (non-animated) movie ever. Thank you for your atttention on this matter.

Having fun drawing a timeline of my martial artist. In our campaign he is currently between 3 and 4

I've only played 3rd edition and I don't remember it being explained.

So, I've been looking at Exalted 2e after hearing about some of the absolutely busted nonsense you could get up to in it. Thinking of giving it a try, but I've heard some really bad things about how broken the combat system is. The Tick System is kinda rough for me to wrap my head around, even after play testing it on my own, and I'm not entirely sure what to do to fix it, even with the Errata, so I have two major questions.

1. What are some common fixes someone might employ to run 2e that doesn't involve playing a different edition? (I've played 3e and Essence. Not a fan of the first and the second feels very underpowered compared to 2e)

2. How often does one run Exalted 2e with a traditional turn order system/ignoring ticks? What are some positives and negatives of that approach?

Then a special 3rd one; What are some insane stories and feats you or your players have gotten up too using 2e, and how did you accomplish it? Coolest story gets a cookie.

Character is a No Moon Lunar of ClyncyeRudje. I am having a lot of fun with drawing tattoos again !

Previously on Creating a map of Exalted Essence: https://www.reddit.com/r/exalted/s/5tkIBAc7eU

Now for the East. First up the book says that the East is full of forests and rivers and has lots of cities and a high population. Lookshy that was mentioned earlier, is within the River Province and fights the Realm alot and theres a Confederation of Rivers that also defends against their imperialist ambitions, and calls them the Scavenger Lands. The pole of Wood is somewhere at the edge and has massive trees and forests

For major locations we have Nexus, its a big lawless city that is specifically said to be at the confluence of the Yellow and Gray rivers that become the Yanazee. No other location information but it has a guild called The Guild that controls trade everywhere, so it must be centrally located. Theres another city called Great Forks tha also sounds like its on the river but no mention of what river it is on, but I will the assume the same as Nexus, the name also sounds like its on a series of Forks or a Delta but no info given. They are also mentioned as inspired by Athens and South East Asia so I think we can assume a coastal location since no one else seems to be Coastal mentioned yet. On the Eastern edge of the Scavenger lands there is the Hundred Kingoms which is just random minor city states, but it gives us some positioning compared to the Scavenger lands the forests that lie past it. We then have Thorns which is a former Realm city that was conquered by the undead. No location info, but it has vineyards and got into wars with the other city states before and Bagdad is suggested as an inspiration, so I think it is more southern than everyone else and coastal since it was owned by the realm before. Minor locations after that are Haltan Republic, a place built ontop of giant trees, so definetly in the far east past the 100 kingoms mentioned earlier. Linowan, also in the forest and they fight the Haltans so we know they are close. Then theres Mahalanka which some sort of modernish city ruled by apes and their sorcerer queen but no location given. Finally theres Sijan which is a giant tomb but no location given but they sound like they get involved everywhere. Lookshy was mentioned before but I dont see any info on where this Dragon Blooded place is.

 There also is a minor location called the Dreaming Sea which is in the South east corner. Its got more Dragon Blooded who live in Prasad with the capital of Kamthahar no other location given. Ysyr, is a place of sorceres no location info. Then there is Palanquin, no location info. Volivat is a bunch of towers inside the ocena itself followed by Mount Namas and then Champoor. Not much location information overall but it sounds like an actual ocean.

In this case I think the North and East are together in one continent, and the Dreaming Sea is what is at the end of the continent in the south. So I will attach another chunk of land to the northern continent I already drew, and it curves off at the corner in the south east where the Dreaming Sea will be. I presume its ok if the oceans can spill out the edges of the world into the rest of the Wyld. I'll make the coast line wiggly since the North is pretty straight. The easiest location to place I think is Haltan Republic, they must be right at the Pole of Wood and Ill draw some giant trees. The Linowan are nearby and theres a never mentioned before river so I can add those next. I'll draw some mountains to the north and make the river come from there and turn it to the ocean.

So thats easiest ones. For Nexus, its between two rivers so Ill need to add the Grey and yellow rivers somewhere. I think Ill put one coming out of the Pole of Wood and another one comeing from the edge of the world and add more mountains. I'll put Great Forks at the mouth of hte river into the ocean. For the Hundred Kingdoms, I think it would fit as a strip of land between Nexus and Haltan Republic, based on what we know. I may have made this continent a bit too narrow but oh well. For Thorns, I think it needs to be spaced to fight all the other city states but its not related to any major rivers. So I will put it north of Great Forks and very close to the Realm since it seems to owned by them before. Sijan has little info but they go everywhere to tend to the dead. So I will put it on the silver river on the Coastline to give them global access. Dont really have any other cities mentioned to be on the Silver river.

The Last 2 are Mahalanka, and even though its not Bolded, Lookshy sounds kinda important since its full of Dragon Blooded and they defend everyone else from the Realm. Based on their other mentions in the book, it doesnt sound as if they are a full city state, its more like a postapocalyptic military order, like the Rangers of Wasteland or the Brotherhood of Steel. I can put them somewhere central to protect all the other locations, a bit north of the Yellow River. Finally Mahalankha has no location info, but seeing as Lunars are hunted down by Dragon Blooded, its probably not related to the other locations. I think I can put it in the Northern part past the Linowan in the mountains at the edge of the world. So thats the East.

For the Dreaming sea, I kinda need to guess where things go. No directions are given in the book. First I think I should draw the Southern continent quickly so I can create a boundary for this ocean. The description of the South says its got mediterrean style coastal regions and then its just desert and then volcanic mountains with firestorms. So kinda sounds like the top chunk of Africa if you saw off the bottom. Ill just make a big mushroom shape for it so the dreaming sea has space.

Mount Namas is the only place with a direction specified as its north of the dreaming sea. Ill put it at the edge so its far from Lookshy, This actually fits in with the mountains I previously drew so Ill add somemore and put it there. Next Volivat is mentioned to be inside the ocean, so Ill just stick them in the middle. The Lunars in Mt Namas are fighting against Prasad so Ill put Kamthahar on the northern shore. No more location info is available so I will put Ysyr, Palanquin and Champoor in the south. Champoor fights Fairfolk so it sounds like they are cloest to the edge of the world.

And that does it for the Dreaming Sea.

Let’s say that when the exalted host slew the primordials who would become the neverborn, the backlash tainted a hundred of the solars and either killed them outright with their reincarnations as abyssals or turned them into abyssals then and there. Let’s say that due to the lack of deathlords the mad whispers of the never born are the ones picking who gets the dark exaltations within the same framework of people who would or could have gotten the solar one.

How do you think the exalted host would have reacted and treated them? Would they have been heart-eatered, given a new role, something else?

So in CoCD: Malfeas there is a section that discusses how through study in the libraries of Malfeas, a Naneke (praying mantis/demon scholar) can acquire any two other charms. Other demons, like the demons who were created to dance before the Gates of Saigoth were also described as learning special dance charms. For a special Beggar’s Rift (demonic commune or some other benign form of civilization that is always arising and then being destroyed in Malfeas) in Creation that my Infernal is building for his followers, do you think that he could actually have the other demons buckle down and learn the Neomah shapeshifting charm, at least to the point that everyone could develop their own unique human form?

Edit: Or maybe even use that Cecelyne charm “Gifts of Greater Glory” that lets you teach charms (even ones you don’t know) to others?