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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolfwood2" data-source="post: 3099299" data-attributes="member: 39394">Personally I'd strip away all the 'Exalted' nonsense so that it can be used with non-good or good-but-not-saintly characters.  Naturally if you're doing this, you can also drop the poverty aspect.  (Hold on, I'm getting to balance.)Instead just use the feat as a shortcut for PCs to keep up on the power curve without having their characters defined by magical items.  Say it's a special set of training techniques that allows characters to develop mystical abilties so long as they don't use magical items.  Exposure to magic items disrupts their natural abilties, just as surely as a druid wearing metal armor shorts out their druidic abilties.  Characters can still use non-magical weapons and armor and keep money to buy land or whatever.There are probably still balance issues to be worked out, which I'm not going to try to do in this post, but I don't see any absolute obstacles.  See, I don't believe that most people who try out the Vow of Poverty are all that interested in playing an Exalted character.  I think a lot of people just want to try playing a character not defined by their gear, and being exalted is the price they have to pay.</blockquote>