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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tiberius" data-source="post: 1444277" data-attributes="member: 1376">I'm playing in my first Exalted game.  I'd been meaning to pick up the book for some time, but finally found my justification when clark411 decided he wanted to run one.  I fell in love with the system in the first reading.  But I'm preaching to the choir here. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  As for the game, it started out with 5 players, each happening to choose a different caste.  I initially was going to be a Twilight ghost-hunting sorcerer from the West, but one of the other players later chose to play a Twilight Immaculate Monk sorcerer which happened to have an identical spell selection to mine,  I decided that we'd be stepping on each other's schtick too much, and I always play the wizard, so I went with an Eclipse merchant prince from House Ragara.We all took the "The rest of the world thinks you are demons to be destroyed" thing to heart, and when we were introduced to each other at a dinner party thrown by another Exalt, we spent 2 real-time hours denying that we had any powers whatsoever. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  The first few sessions were pretty much devoted to helping us learn the system and our powers and help us get into character.  We were also learning more about the city (specifically, The Lap).  We had an early appearance by a Day caste 0 XP Abyssal, who nearly killed 3 Circle members before she was taken down.  Since then we've helped negotiate peaces, break sieges, make deals with the Fae, hunted ancient evils, contacted the Cult of the Illuminated, dispatched a Wyld Hunt sent to bring us down, and are in the process of dealing with the fall of one of our number into the clutches of the Deathlords.  Good times.  We've played about 14 sessions, twice a month.</blockquote>

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