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This is one thing that I'm not so fond of. Essence ping is cool, but the extra things that Essence does under Power Combat is a bit much. Now it influences your Essence pool, your ability/attribute max, minimum damage, adds to your dodge pool, and influences your Charm selection. That's a lot...

For me, it's a toss-up between Venger and Tiamat. On the one hand, Tiamat's Tiamat. On the other, Venger had some secret past with Dungeon Master, it seemed, and a shadow minion. On a side note, I really liked what Baldur's Gate 2 did with the characters from the show. :)

That's cool. I'll be interested to see what they do with the spells and things like Manse creation/Demense shaping. I really don't like what they've done with the cover, though. The top half of the thing looks great. The bottom half doesn't exactly reinforce the idea that gaming is a hobby...

The big selling points, for me, are the setting and the mechanics, a theme which seems to be repeated by many other respondants. We'll take these in order. The setting: In the beginning, the earth was formless and void. Great beings, known by those who came later as the Primordials, gave...

I'm not sure you'd have the trouble you think you would. As it happens, it seems many people try to argue that the Imbued are, in fact, the newest incarnation of the Solar Exalted. :) Anyway, I think experience with Hunter, more than any other WoD game except Werewolf, would ease the...

As it happens, this was a rerun. We have to wait a bit longer for new Enterprise eps. The original thread on the episode lives here: http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=75024

We experimented with it this past weekend. It was a pretty big fight, with a bunch of solars against something like 12 dragon bloods and two demons. It seemed to work well. The big things I noticed were the effect Rate and Essence ping had. We had a bit of a sword monkey, who could...

I stopped by my local Borders this evening, and perused the PG. Given that one ought not read for too long a book you have not yet bought, I limited my attention to the merits and flaws and some of the Exalted Power Combat. From what I have seen, I like the Player's Guide. I would have bought...

I'm playing in my first Exalted game. I'd been meaning to pick up the book for some time, but finally found my justification when clark411 decided he wanted to run one. I fell in love with the system in the first reading. But I'm preaching to the choir here. :) As for the game, it started...

I first saw that on WW's Exalted forum. Or maybe it was the wiki. I usually read the forum, but have recently discovered the wiki, so I'm not sure where I found it. Probably the forum. It was posted by the freelancer who goes by the handle Neph. He wrote the Charms and Necromancy for the...

It is really a once-in-a-game circumstance, as the PG only comes out once, so I've not had a problem with it the few times it's come up. As to your second point, it is rather questionable as to whether it's available in the first place. Especially since I started playing as an Eclipse, then...

Ordinarily, I'd agree with you. However, since the merits and flaws weren't available at the start of the game, I'm used to being able to take flaws and merits in equal point value once they become available. But that's not been an issue with the WW games for some time, and I'm playing with a...

That is encouraging. Much as I like M&F, they are ripe for abuse when unregulated. Used properly, though, they do give the ST some nice plot hooks. I hear that some of them are quite interesting (like one that gives a Solar the ability to do something cool in combination with a Lunar). Plus...

I wonder if she could do that. After all, the incident occured on Panamanian soil, IIRC, so I would doubt that the American courts have jurisdiction.

I'd excise point number two there, as they don't learn about the Shanshu prophecy until the end of season 1 ("To Shanshu in L.A."). :)

Yah, I couldn't hear either, so I rewound the DVD and turned on the closed captioning. :D He says that after the Xindi blow up Earth, "we will prevail."

Also remember that magical weapons and armor can be rendered temporarily nonmagical (and thus vulnerable to Shatter) by the application of Dispel Magic. This particular tactic doesn't work all that well, 'cause I find that people are able to buff their saves way too easily, but it's great when...

One of my players was in a similar situation, owing Nerull a favor. He was a CN formerly half-orc barbarian, and not terribly adverse to killing things. He was tasked with a simple matter, killing a particular priestess of Hieroneous. He does so with surprisingly little difficulty (he caught...

Something occurred to me while I was falling to sleep last night. Just before Doyle died, he kissed Cordelia and transferred his visions to her. Just before Cordelia died, she kissed Angel. I wonder if she transferred her visions to him?

It is too bad she died, she was an interesting character and a member of the original Scoobie Gang, albeit reluctantly. I wonder what Xander would have to say on the matter? Apparently my wife thought Cordy's return would be a more permanant arrangement, and was on the verge of tears by the...