hatewheel: When I was given the job of working on Glories, I reviewed my outline every day. Information on the Incarnae was there, available across the product, but it was thin on the ground, largely echoed from writer to writer. I combed first and second edition for all references to the Incarnae. I looked over ancient posts left behind by Grabowski and certain other writers on the subject of the gods, feeling all the more like an adventurer following a mythic trail of crumbs into some vast primordial wood. I conferred endlessly with my fellow writers on the project, particularly Holden, with whom I debated relentlessly on a great many issues. I was to unite old info, bring it forward, and revitalize it. But I emerged from that forest with a new task, one very close to my heart--making the Incarnae characters you would not only be able to play with, but characters you would want to play with.
The Demented One: hatewheel: When I was given the job of working on Glories, I reviewed my outline every day. Information on the Incarnae was there, available across the product, but it was thin on the ground, largely echoed from writer to writer. I combed first and second edition for all references to the Incarnae. I looked over ancient posts left behind by Grabowski and certain other writers on the subject of the gods, feeling all the more like an adventurer following a mythic trail of crumbs into some vast primordial wood. I conferred endlessly with my fellow writers on the project, particularly Holden, with whom I debated relentlessly on a great many issues. I was to unite old info, bring it forward, and revitalize it. But I emerged from that forest with a new task, one very close to my heart--making the Incarnae characters you would not only be able to play with, but characters you would want to play with. Any chance those ancient posts are up on public webspace? I'd love to trawl through old author comments, if you can give us links.
Holden:So, what do you expect to see with regards to the Incarnae? What do you want or hope to see addressed?
Souls:The five elemental dragons are going to be in this supplement correct? If so, that is what I am looking forward to the most. If not, :-(
Kukla:Could all five Elemental Dragons, working together, meaningfully challenge any single one of the Incarna in any significant field of conflict, be that social, physical, or intellectual?
Chestertonian: Kukla:Could all five Elemental Dragons, working together, meaningfully challenge any single one of the Incarna in any significant field of conflict, be that social, physical, or intellectual?Unless there is something meaningfully different about the Elemental Dragons that makes them vastly more powerful than what we know about them would indicate they are, no, never, nuh-uh, not happening, ever.
Holden: Bizzow!
Chestertonian: Then again, they have their own Exalt type, so the probability that we'll find out they're way more powerful than their status should indicate is not exactly impossible if they ever get written up. Or even unlikely.
Nephilpal: Daredevil:Are there any suggestions on dealing with the UCS's addiction to the Games of Divinity? Yes. Not sure if it's how you mean, but yes. Daredevil:Will the effect of the Games of Divinity on Mortals/Exalted be discussed?Sort of. Daredevil:Will the possibility and ramifications of PC's entering the Games be discussed? Kind of by implication, but honestly, if you're at the point you're telling those stories, you don't need us telling you how to do it. You've probably got it handled. The Games are one of those things that need to stay mysterious in canon. Some info is needed, clearly, so you have SOME idea what to do with them, but the following options all need to stay viable because of heir story potential:1) The Games serve a higher purpoe, and thus, playing them is not actually an act of cosmic asshattery on the part of the Incarnae.2) The Games served a higher purpose oiginally, but they weren't made for gods, who have become hopelessly addicted to these things they can't understand. Tragedy.3) The Games are purely for entertainment but are so insanely addictive (at least to gods) that it turned the Highest of Holies into a crack addict. Thus, it's not a fault he's been sitting on his ass the last age or two. Maybe you should rescue him. Or do him in while he's crack-addled. Whichever.4) The Games are purely for entertainment, and they're the most fun ever. The gods have abandoned their responsibilities, the world is crumbling, and they deserve a punch in the face for it all. Time for the Exalted to take over. Because that can't end poorly.And more.Some people want the highest gods to be deeply good, but have trouble reconciling the notion of good gods with them doing nothing when they have the power to help (and especially in the face of world-ending threats like the Balorian Crusade). The Games as a supernatural addiction provide an in-setting balancer, an excuse. Alternately, if they areactually good for something, then it means the highest gods are not only good -- but wonder of wonders -- not chumps either. Other people like the notion that the gods are just as corupt or more than anything else in the setting, and so they find it fitting that they are fiddling while Rome burns. None of these (or any other) viewpoints should be given the badwrongfun stamp and if we as writers don't tread very carefully around this issue, that's exactly what ends up happening.Does that make sense?
Daredevil:Are there any suggestions on dealing with the UCS's addiction to the Games of Divinity?
Daredevil:Will the effect of the Games of Divinity on Mortals/Exalted be discussed?
Daredevil:Will the possibility and ramifications of PC's entering the Games be discussed?