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re: The Solar Deliberative: The Silver-Horned Watcher is watching you!

Kashi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:03 GMT

Now when Sleeves of War wins by one vote...you'll feel bad.

re: The Solar Deliberative: The Silver-Horned Watcher is watching you!

Kukla — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:27:31 GMT

A comment on. I can't very well vote for my own work!

I vote for Sleeves of War.

re: The Solar Deliberative: The Silver-Horned Watcher is watching you!

teleute — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:14:08 GMT

@ Bodhisattva: Both. ^_^

@ Kukla: Even at char gen, he has the makings of a problem. Hard-Nosed Denial Style for both bad AND good advise.

re: The Solar Deliberative: The Silver-Horned Watcher is watching you!

Bodhisattva — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:36:10 GMT

Is that a comment on Uka or a vote for Uka?

re: The Solar Deliberative: The Silver-Horned Watcher is watching you!

Kukla — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:37:30 GMT

Tragically, I never finished the full version of Uka. :(

re: The Solar Deliberative: The Silver-Horned Watcher is watching you!

teleute — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:07:30 GMT

Uka, perfectly stated to make epically bad divisions.

re: The Solar Deliberative: Build-A-Bear? Well, not quite...

Kashi — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:33:43 GMT

I mailed my entry to Bodhisattva, but I haven't heard anything back about it. :/

re: The Solar Deliberative: Build-A-Bear? Well, not quite...

Thyme — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:14:20 GMT

I have not been able to find the write up for any of the Lunars?

I was hoping to see what people did and what they submitted.

I might have entered something in myself, but I just now saw this.

re: The Solar Deliberative: Build-A-Bear? Well, not quite...

Kashi — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:28:29 GMT

I'm seriously considering submitting a Lunar, even though it's very close to the close of the contest, but I am wiki illiterate. Would someone please be kind enough to explain to me how I might acomplish this under the correct heading in regards to the contest? Thanks!

re: The Solar Deliberative: Build-A-Bear? Well, not quite...

Inugami — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:20:05 GMT

"Kept down" in 1st of course. They don't have that problem in 2nd. (But the potion exclusion was unnecessary.)

I'm also not sure what's in character for her anymore. My picture of her has gotten shaken up, and I haven't gotten around to finding her again. (Other projects, whee!) Maybe she does go in for DBT afterall. (It would require shifting a dot from Dex to Stam, but she needs Stamina 3 to survive Kether Rock anyway.)

I'm also embarassed to see I missed Hummingbird Life. I dismissed Changing Plummage, because it seems to only work for stolen forms, of which I thought she would have none. (Silver Declaration and Internal Form Mastery were dismissed for that reason.)

Of course I considered Second Face, but she doesn't have Dex 4. Though, with BP...

re: The Solar Deliberative: Build-A-Bear? Well, not quite...

Inugami — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:18:39 GMT

"Kept down" in 1st of course. They don't have that problem in 2nd. (But the potion exclusion was/is unnecessary.)

Of course I considered Second Face, but she doesn't have Dex 4. Though, with BP...

re: The Solar Deliberative: Build-A-Bear? Well, not quite...

Bodhisattva — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:35:20 GMT

Inugami,

If you're looking to build a custom character according to the rules as written, your Lunar is going to start out with Essence 2 any way you look at it. Of course, if you're going with non-standard character creation rules, the characters can come out with rather bizarre results that may leave players scratching their heads and wondering how you came about your stats or flat-out stating, "That was poorly designed."

It's unfortunate that you see the Lunars as being "kept down". Canonically, they are not as powerful as the Solars in the same way that Luna is not as powerful as Sol Invictus. This is reflected both mechanically and thematically. Not all exalts are created equal, and that's okay. I don't see any particular reason to beef them up to keep up with the Solars in every way. Doing that kind of reminds me of the days when I played D&D and I saw every starting character come out with all 18's in their traits so that they'd all be equally "awesome". It can spoil game play.

Now as far as Faithful Pia goes, I could see her as taking Life of the Hummingbird, Changing Plumage Mastery, Quicksilver Second Face or Deadly Beastman Transformation (which she had in first edition) and not damage or significantly alter her presentation in the Cult of the Illuminated sourcebook one bit. She doesn't have to have Hybrid Body Rearrangement, although it would be appropriate, and if you've got to spend the 10BP to ensure that she can take it, I don't see this as a problem. If it's in her character to have Hybrid Body Rearrangement and not Deadly Beastman Transformation, that's cool. Spend the bonus points and move on. It's not the end of the world. :)

re: The Solar Deliberative: Build-A-Bear? Well, not quite...

Kukla — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:19:49 GMT

I swear to goodness, I've statted up Uka, I just haven't posted him yet :C

re: The Solar Deliberative: Build-A-Bear? Well, not quite...

Inugami — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:52:28 GMT

Whether it was or not, giving the benefit to Solars when it could have just as easily been given to the Lunars as well just seemed like another First Edition case of "keeping the Lunar man down."

re: The Solar Deliberative: Build-A-Bear? Well, not quite...

Bodhisattva — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:14:18 GMT

Even in First Edition, Cult of the Illuminated Lunars started out with Essence 2, not Essence 3 (Cult of the Illuminated, p. 95.).

I understand that there should be some benefit that a Solar gains by having been trained by Sidereals leading the Cult of the Illuminated, but I always felt that starting out with Essence 3 was kind of hax anyway.