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Uzumaki said:
That's kind of interesting. A friend of mine once ran a really elaborate and detailed campaign that he characterized as "Exalted Modern" but which was really the World of Darkness with the Solars suddenly showing back up. He had an insane level of knowledge of both settings and the way they lined up was really interesting. Like the WoD Neverborn being dead Exalted Primordials.

All that said: 3E sounds like a dumpster fire worthy of RPG.net.
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I always assumed that the World of Darkness is what you get if the Three Spheres Cataclysm didn't happen - i.e., if Autochthon and Gaia had interceded when She Who Lives In Her Name surrendered, and said "actually you can trust this one, we'll take care of her". Then you get the Yozis collectively embodying the principle of 'the Wyrm' (with the Ebon Dragon as its principle "mind"); SWLIHN + Autochthon + the Five Maidens collectively embodying the principle of 'the Weaver', and The Wyld just being... the Wyld.
 
Zonga said:
I always assumed that the World of Darkness is what you get if the Three Spheres Cataclysm didn't happen - i.e., if Autochthon and Gaia had interceded when She Who Lives In Her Name surrendered, and said "actually you can trust this one, we'll take care of her". Then you get the Yozis collectively embodying the principle of 'the Wyrm' (with the Ebon Dragon as its principle "mind"); SWLIHN + Autochthon + the Five Maidens collectively embodying the principle of 'the Weaver', and The Wyld just being... the Wyld.
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In our game it was the usurpation never happening, and thus the vision of darkness from the Great Prophecy that is hinted to be the World of Darkness comes to pass. Then all that apocalyptic millennialism nonsense from Vampire turns out to be the prophetic hints at the return of the Solars in the year 2000.
 
Envirotards v. SJWs when?
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Edit: lol, seriously though, I think this is how eco-fascists are born.
 
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mr.moon1488 said:
Envirotards v. SJWs when?
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Edit: lol, seriously though, I think this is how eco-fascists are born.
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Of course the arrogance of the mods thinking that they know what the obviously right and wrong political stances are, and have a moral mandate to enforce them, was not going to stop at driving the non-leftists off the site. Of course. Because these dickless mentally ill losers can only keep the high they get off of kicking around other people for so long, and once they get rid of everyone who isn't a leftist, then they have only other leftists available to shit on. Because with authoritarian politics, it's never actually about the politics, but all about the personalities, and personality disorders.
 
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mr.moon1488 said:
Envirotards v. SJWs when?
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Malthusian thinking (which is what Funkadelic is referring to) has been pretty well debunked.

It's weird. Sometimes you get perfectly sane reasoning out of the mods, and then you get cogitating dogshit.
 
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PancakesPancakesPancakes said:
Oh man, Exalted went full woke in 3E, and replaced the asian sword and sorcery vibe with generic High Fantasy art.
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It only went full woke after the core 3E book when it was decided that the Dragon Blooded 100% believe it when someone says they're trans (IIRC, the designers were completely baffled by the idea of someone in cutthroat matriarchal society pretending to be a woman for social advantage) and being ok with openly gay DBs who aren't interested in reproduction (in a society obsessed with maintaining Exalted bloodlines). Also the mechanics after the core book are a dumpster fire (for Solars, 3E is a huge improvement and I say that as someone who played 1E and 2E and ran 1E) and IIRC the new person in charge of the line has a really huge boner for Lunars (probably in the furry way as well) and that never bodes well (Lunar Breeding Charms anyone?)

Uzumaki said:
That's kind of interesting. A friend of mine once ran a really elaborate and detailed campaign that he characterized as "Exalted Modern" but which was really the World of Darkness with the Solars suddenly showing back up. He had an insane level of knowledge of both settings and the way they lined up was really interesting. Like the WoD Neverborn being dead Exalted Primordials.

All that said: 3E sounds like a dumpster fire worthy of RPG.net.
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Holden Shearer, while a bit of a SJW himself, did make an "Exalted vs. World of Darkness" unofficial supplement and it's pretty good, since it runs on the 20th anniversary WoD mechanics (in case of conflict, V20 wins). It opens a lot of fun possibilities, since just throwing someone powerful enough to make meaningful change at WoD is guaranteed to end in a lot of chaos. In the campaign I played, Pentex ended up being the main villain just because they were the most public facing one and couldn't be dealt with by just being slaughtered by a bunch of idiots with no regard for or knowledge of vampire Traditions.
 
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I like Shield Hero. I don't like how some of the stuff is handled (slavery's always going to be touchy), but if you have a sympathetic bone in your body you can see why someone would be driven to such an extreme as the MC was. I also noticed they don't like Goblin Slayer, and I assume it's because of a badly handled rape scene in the first episode. Thing is, if you're a fan of dark fantasy RPGs at all, Goblin Slayer will be right up your alley provided you can get past the cringey rape scene that gave me some of the most confusing feelings in my life. But no, we can't have nuance in our weaboo shit so into the memory hole it goes!
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I'm betting that Firefly gets canceled from RPGnet soon, on account of Whedon being tarred with the problematic brush, the protagonists are basically Confederate soldiers, and the Reavers are native Americans because... I have no idea why. It's just the argument I heard once.

Anyway, back to getting offended over innocuous minutiae on behalf of hypothetical people.
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Fictional Character said:
It only went full woke after the core 3E book when it was decided that the Dragon Blooded 100% believe it when someone says they're trans (IIRC, the designers were completely baffled by the idea of someone in cutthroat matriarchal society pretending to be a woman for social advantage) and being ok with openly gay DBs who aren't interested in reproduction (in a society obsessed with maintaining Exalted bloodlines). Also the mechanics after the core book are a dumpster fire (for Solars, 3E is a huge improvement and I say that as someone who played 1E and 2E and ran 1E) and IIRC the new person in charge of the line has a really huge boner for Lunars (probably in the furry way as well) and that never bodes well (Lunar Breeding Charms anyone?)
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Sad. One of the aspects of Realm society was that nobody gave a shit who or what you were doing, so long as you were doing your proper duty and making sure another generation of dynasts would be coming along. And as long as you weren't weak, then nobody would ever give you grief over your quirks.

Fictional Character said:
Holden Shearer, while a bit of a SJW himself, did make an "Exalted vs. World of Darkness" unofficial supplement and it's pretty good, since it runs on the 20th anniversary WoD mechanics (in case of conflict, V20 wins). It opens a lot of fun possibilities, since just throwing someone powerful enough to make meaningful change at WoD is guaranteed to end in a lot of chaos. In the campaign I played, Pentex ended up being the main villain just because they were the most public facing one and couldn't be dealt with by just being slaughtered by a bunch of idiots with no regard for or knowledge of vampire Traditions.
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Heh. I'm reading through the EvWoD supplement, and yeah, it plays out about as I'd expect.

Say what you will about Holden, but the idea of some skinny teenage kid with a mall katana, wearing one of those stupid horse masks... and then a Dawn caste mark appears -- that's pretty fucking hilarious :D
 
Capsaicin Addict said:
Sad. One of the aspects of Realm society was that nobody gave a shit who or what you were doing, so long as you were doing your proper duty and making sure another generation of dynasts would be coming along. And as long as you weren't weak, then nobody would ever give you grief over your quirks.
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The way my group played it, the parental response to kids being gay was somewhere between "We don't care what you do in your free time." and "Just lie back and think of the Realm." (As for why we had a game where characters being gay was something that came up with regularity: it allowed for more drama in a DB game where family and marriage politics are important.)

Capsaicin Addict said:
Heh. I'm reading through the EvWoD supplement, and yeah, it plays out about as I'd expect.

Say what you will about Holden, but the idea of some skinny teenage kid with a mall katana, wearing one of those stupid horse masks... and then a Dawn caste mark appears -- that's pretty fucking hilarious :biggrin:
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Holden might have been the only competent person on the 3E team with how much 3E spilled down the toilet after he left. ExvWoD is sadly the easiest way to play Abyssals now, which sucks since they're my second most favorite kind of Exalts.
 
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