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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JPL" data-source="post: 1481235" data-attributes="member: 1964">Sure.Anime is still a niche hobby in America [although the niche continues to grow].  As with other niche hobbies [jazz, for example], the enthusiast will sometimes make the leap from "My tastes are different from most people's" to "My tastes are superior to most people's."  To the extent that it is anime-inspired, Exalted appeals to this niche audience --- some of whom tend be snobs about it.Exalted, like other White Wolf games, uses a lot of short stories in the rule books to convey both setting information and tone.  Some folks find this pretentious, preferring a game book to be...well, a game book.Just by virtue of being a White Wolf game, Exalted carries certain baggage...think about the Vampire LARPers, for example.  Some folks find LARPing sorta pretentious, especially when you dress up all gothy and have a character named Ravyn Wylddarque and turn the whole thing into improvised theatre.  Me, I say, whatever floats your boat.  Exalted seems to cater more towards teenage powertrip wish-fulfillment rather than gothic angsty hoo-hah, and since I'm all about the former, I find the thought of playing a superpowered Conan ninja Exalted a lot more appealing.I guess the further a game gets from the core RPG experience --- which has both tactical/hack-n-slash and role-playing components, but doesn't take itself too seriously --- --- and into the more artsy "The themes of this game are power and loss, and what it means to have free will..." and calling your gaming buddies a "troupe" and having a "collaborative storytelling experience"....well, then you end up being pretentious, by some folk's standards.But like I said...of all the White Wolf games, Exalted does the least to encourage general artsyness.  And some people enjoy the artsyness, and more power to them.</blockquote>

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