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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wycen" data-source="post: 1663377" data-attributes="member: 13732">We've been using the BoED in our new campaign from the beginning.  At first the party had about 3 exalted characters, a barbarian, monk and maybe wizard.  The monk has the Vow of Poverty.  She seemed to be pretty useful in combat, having a god awful AC and inflicting pretty good damage.Then the barbarian's player decided to switch to wizard, since the wizard player decide to switch to fighter and the barb's adamantine spiked chain was proving to much for the DM to handle.  At this point we also gained a new player so I don't know if any exalted characters remain besides the monk, (we've all been given the Ancestral Weapon feat for free but you only need a good alignment).Then the monk's player had to skip a game and left his character sheet with me.  Well, I'm anal retentive about understanding all the abilities of a character so after playing with the PC that night I did some research and that led to a now castrated but legal monk.From a roleplaying perspective the Exalted stuff really hasn't been a big deal.  The spells from the book are used only by my character, as you don't need to be exalted to use any of them and I haven't seen any problems so far.  The DM hasn't complained.The exalted feats do seem a tad on the weak or limited side unless you have a definite good versus evil campaign, which we do.  However, the Touch of Golden Ice seems to be one of those, WTF? kind of feats.  Nearly all the players are dedicated to Law, except mine and the spellfilching gnomish rogue.  This alignment issue actually had a bigger impact at the beginning of the game than any exalted content.  The single most potent bit of the book of exalted deeds that we've used is the warden archon and other forms from the book for the polymorphed monk.  Before my audit, the monk in bear warden form was doing 2d8+9 +d4 vs. evil per hit.  But that is because we hadn't bothered to notice you can't polymorph into outsiders unless you were of the outsider type.</blockquote>

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