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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 6075600" data-attributes="member: 48965"><p>See I thought the opposite about Exalted... there really wasn't much of an advancing metaplot going on, at least not in 1st edition. I also felt like it was one of the games (along with Earthdawn) I already had that gives me the experience I believe 4e was going for, but both, IMO had much cooler setting concepts and rationales for the reason these "heroes" could do the amazing things they did. In Earthdawn you are one of a rare group known as adepts who either consciously or unconsciously uses magic to perform super-human feats... While in Exalted you are justified by being the reincarnation of a demi-god. In contrast to 4e where a martial character can do amazing things because... well I'm not sure why they can do some of the things they can do since no rationale is really given fiction-wise... it just is.  This creates further dissonance in me because there are the classes like Warlocks, Mages, Paladins, Clerics, etc. where fiction-wise we know why they are able to do things normal people can't.</p></blockquote><p></p>