Tag: exalted

September 20, 2007

I attack the volcano!

What? Tuesday night was Jenn’s Exalted game (which I was frustrated with for a bit…. but then made a new character and that helped). We had a hiatus for most of the summer, so I’ve only played the new PC a few times. I’m having a lot of fun playing the impulsive and mostly-clueless (but hyper-competent) kid. We were on...

September 18, 2007

The Face of a Killer?

Sometimes, I don’t know what George is thinking. Last night, in our Aberrant game, he introduced “The Quaker” as a villian. The Quaker, of course, has seismic powers. I nearly had to leave the room after being overcome with stupid. Stupid isn’t necessarily a problem, but the campaign has been fairly serious and realistic (given that it is, you know,...

June 21, 2007

Feeling reflective

…like a mirror. Today I rewrote the description of this blog for no particular reason. Last night: Beyond Vinland. We slaughtered us some stone-age Duergar and their pet dinobots (dinosaur skeletons with eye lasers?!?). Their boss got away, though. That was a shame. Also, Jeff couldn’t find his digital camera, and I decided not to bring mine… so there are...

June 20, 2007

Random status update

Last night, I met with Jenn and we chatted about her Exalted game. Then I went home, ate spring rolls, and started creating a new character. For those who care, he’s a teenaged Night Caste Solar from the Realm. He’s a stowaway on a ship and is a bit of a champion for the underdog. (Warning: Don’t follow that last...

June 1, 2007

More Exalted Frustrations

Last night was Jenn’s piratey Exalted game. I think I’ve concluded that I made the wrong character for the game. My PC (Hijiki) is a generalist, but the things that he’s good at are either not terribly useful or are things that someone else does better… and which we only need one person to do. For example, Hijiki has 8...

March 15, 2007

Real Magic Items: why settle for banal visuals

I’m a little burnt out on Exalted right now, despite (or perhaps, in part, because of) the fact that I am playing in two occasional campaigns. Mostly it is the system that gets me down about it. I love the visuals. It isn’t the anime stuff. I can do without that. Instead, it is the simple fact that interesting visuals...

October 12, 2006

Background, revisited

So, a month or so ago, I was griping about my resistance to writing a background for my Exalted character. The character’s name is Hijiki. He and his water elemental business partner, Fluidity of Truth, scavenged shipwrecks and other sources of undersea wealth… and then Hijiki became one of the Solar Exalted. Other than a character sheet (which, for an...

March 26, 2006

Exalted 2nd ed. Character Sheet

I got bored yesterday, and created what may one day become a semi-workable character sheet for Exalted 2nd ed. Here is the first draft of it.