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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4292745" data-attributes="member: 62992">OK; here is my attempt.Exalted is actually alot like 4E; all the characters are massively powerful, even at first level. The good thing about Exalted is that this is part of a nice backstory. In Exalted, everyone is a fusion between an ordinary person and the reincarnated essence of a once-godling.This affects the social combat system because the godling part of the character has a rating, from one to five, in each of the four virtues; valor, temperance, compassion, and conviction. If you have a rating above 3 in a virtue, your character can only ignore certain situations by spending willpower and this is a finite resource. For example, if your character has 5 in valor, if he is openly challenged to single combat by an enemy or called a comward, you would have to spend willpower to resist this call to battle, even if it would be bad news for you or your group. Hence, one form of social manipulation is to use a person's virtues against them.Characters also have intimacies; ideas, organisations or goals that your character is passionate about.Social combat relies upon attacking and weakening intimacies or creating new ones. If someone tries to attack your intimacies, they use social atrributes (presence for one to one, performance for groups and either manipulation or charisma) to overcome your mental defences. You can again use willpower to avoid this for a time, but if someone can get at you constantly, they can wear down your defences and then create a new intimacy. Once this is done, you have to roleplay it and if you don't the GM can make you by requiring you to spend willpower points avoid serving your intimacies.Since willpower is very finite and only comes back slowly, you have to be very careful who you talk to.There are also magical effects that only Exalted characters can use that create irresistable social attacks, or can block any social attack. Social attacks can even be made through writing.So basically, social combat is hard-wired right into Exalted at about the same level as normal combat.</blockquote>

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