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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 4638292" data-attributes="member: 13892">I am going to give you an alternate solution to your problem, one that I have actually used myself. Incidentally, this came about because I didn't feel like buying a bucket full of d10s that I'd only use for playing Exalted. Dice are expensive and it seemed a silly investment when I already has a bucket full of d6s sitting around. So, without further ado, I present to you the world's quickest d6 Exalted conversion: [sblock]Six-Sided ExaltedAll references to "d10" are replaced with "d6". Results of 5 are counted as successes. Results of 6 are counted as 'exploding' successes. The end.[/sblock]Now, granted, this won't help you with the point-buy aspect. If the freedom of point-buy character creation or the seeming* lack of balance inherent to such systems bothers you, you're just going to need to go with something else altogether. The one thing that a die pool system will provide that a single die roll system will not is a true average roll outcome (<a href="http://www.elvenarcher.net/jstarlight/LinearVsNonLinear.html" target="_blank">rolling a single die eliminates this</a>). This, in theory, makes it easier to gauge die roll results and build encounters. As for the d10 Storyteller system? I'm not a fan of it, though I do think it's worth pointing out that Solar Exalted aren't mere heroes of the D&D variety — such heroes are represented in the game by Heroic Mortals. Solar Exalted are gods that have been rebirthed. As such, that are supposed to be able to do things that 'normal' people can never do. Their being able to do things like walk on water and such isn't a sign of a broken system but, rather, of a system accomplishing exactly what it was designed to do. *I say "seeming" because many such systems are actually far more balanced than class/level based systems, IME.</blockquote>

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