Can someone explain exalted?

[werk]

I know what exalted is, and have read the BoED exalted characters section several times and must be missing it...

What must a character do to be considered exalted and open up those feats/classes?

Is just being goody-goody enough, or is there something else required?

 

[Infiniti2000]

Imo

Just being goody-goody enough is what you need. Taking any feat with Exalted strictly makes a character Exalted, though that has little game-meaning. Whether a character is Exalted enough to take such feats or whatever really is an RP issue to be dealt with by the DM.

 

[Stalker0]

As for what it takes to be exalted?

Take a paladin, now square him. That's how good you have to be. Frankly, I doubt most characters could live up to that standard if the rest of the party is nonexalted.

 

[Bad Paper]

A druid in my campaign was eyeing some of the BoED things. I told her that she had to be off-the-charts Goody-Good, such that at the first breach of alignment, I would strip her of her exaltedness. She realized I was gearing up for a fight, so she backed down. I told the players that I won't use any of the BoVD stuff either, except for the BBEGs that are really bad.

 

[Fieari]

You have to be so good you no longer care about the power. All you want is for life to be perfect in all ways, including the MEANS to get there. There is NO variance. There is a line drawn in the sand, and that line is not to be crossed. No hint of evil is to be tolerated, and that includes the ways you remove evil as well.

In some cases, you have to be so good that the feat is simply describing how good you are, not really giving you anything you didn't already have. Some of the diplomacy bonuses, for example, come from being so good, and people knowing that you're so good, that they'll do whatever it takes to help you when you REALLY need that help. "The evil druid cast a curse on all the farmland so that nothing is fertile anymore! I'm delivering food personally to every family I can find, but my personal funds have been expended to the point that I can no longer buy food for them, can you please help?"

 

[Dimwhit]

I'm not sure I agree about the goody-goody thing. That implies Lawful Good. If I'm not mistaken, you only have to be good. So Neutral Good and Chaotic Good are both fair game. I agree that you have to be REALLY good, but not necessarily goody-goody. You just need to strictly adhere to your (and your God's) code of conduct or whatever.

More than anything, I think being exalted requires very strict devotion and integrity.

But really, as was mentioned, it's an RP issue and open to some interpretation.

 

[Arnwyn]

I'm not sure I agree about the goody-goody thing. That implies Lawful Good.

I had no idea alignment definitions were getting that detailed these days.

 

[Dimwhit]

I had no idea alignment definitions were getting that detailed these days.

Yep. Right in the PHP glossary next to 'passive-aggressive.'

 

[DonTadow]

I'm not sure I agree about the goody-goody thing. That implies Lawful Good. If I'm not mistaken, you only have to be good. So Neutral Good and Chaotic Good are both fair game. I agree that you have to be REALLY good, but not necessarily goody-goody. You just need to strictly adhere to your (and your God's) code of conduct or whatever.

More than anything, I think being exalted requires very strict devotion and integrity.

But really, as was mentioned, it's an RP issue and open to some interpretation.

I'm with you. I think the book purposely does not include an allignment restriction to leave exalted up to the meaning of the dm. In my shackled city campaign, I play a priest whom got the callinag at 42,. But he got a special message, and now he's giving up the drinking, boos, women ect. He's changed his life around but its been no easy task. He's exalted because he was chosen to be.

 

[Dimwhit]

I'm with you. I think the book purposely does not include an allignment restriction to leave exalted up to the meaning of the dm. In my shackled city campaign, I play a priest whom got the callinag at 42,. But he got a special message, and now he's giving up the drinking, boos, women ect. He's changed his life around but its been no easy task. He's exalted because he was chosen to be.

Good point. A good way to bring exalted into a campaign when a PC is interested is for the DM to turn it more into a calling from the PC's diety. I think there more of an implied 'goodness' or 'righteousness' with something like that that fits my idea of exalted.