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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Acid_crash" data-source="post: 1485622" data-attributes="member: 16278">Ya know, all of you are comparing D&D and Exalted, and it's like comparing Apples to Oranges...they are too different and opposite to compare in such a way.Exalted is very much in a league of it's own.  Yeah, you make a character who might be anywhere from 12 to 60, and get the powers of a demi-god right off the bat...but yet you are Anathema and 98% of the people in Creation will distrust you just because of that power.  Not only that, but you gotta remember that Exalted are fueled by Essence, and once an Exalted uses up all his Essence points, then he's just a high powered mortal and can be taken down by just about anybody.  The Exalted has to be careful of how he uses his powers, and with this great power comes great responsibility.  The Exalted has the power to truly change the world, even from moment one when the Unconquered Sun blesses (curses) the person with his essence.  Not only do most mortals distrust you, but there are four other kind of Exalted in the world, probably the most dangerous being Abyssals as polar opposites of the Solars, and the Dragon-Blooded having massive numbers of the young Solar that you would play.  And let's not forget that each Solar Exalted has a curse within his soul, and every so often this curse takes over and the Solar acts in ways that make our hated criminals feel like angels...when playing a Solar Exalted, you learn to be a very careful individual, and you don't go around showing off your powers whenever you feel like it because that will end in a very quick and painful death.In D&D you roll your dice, pick your class, race, equipment, feat, skills, and good to go in 30 minutes, go hack your way into a few dungeons, maybe roleplay a bit in a city, kill some monsters, and gain XP.  AND I don't really get many opportunities to really see my character change the world the way I do in Exalted.  And if people want to compare players and fans of games all I can say is the number of times I have spoken to D&D/d20 gamers who feel that anything not D&D is a waste of time, not worth playing, and the number of times I have heard the excuse "I don't have the time to learn another game system," is just pathetic...and the majority of gamers who use this lame excuse are D&D/d20 players who feel that the game is beneath them.  I mean, if a person doesn't have time to take an hour to learn another game system, then how in the world did they have the time to learn the one they are playing in the first place?</blockquote>

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