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= Exalted: Kawaii Edition =

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== What is Exalted: Kawaii? ==

Exalted: Kawaii began as a gag cover done for a Photoshop thread on RPG.net. It has since been developed into a humorous variant of the standard Exalted setting with a much heavier anime slant (especially shoujo and harem shows). It should function both as something to laugh at and as a viable game setting for those of correctly twisted mentality.

== The Setting ==

For a thousand years, Neo-Empress Scarlet stood astride the tide of history, directing Creation from the Scarlet Throne through her mastery of the Scarlet Crystal which gave her command over Area 51 (which was, amazingly enough, not actually Scarlet, but more of an off-mauve), the ancient defense system created by the now long-fallen Bishonen and their allies in the First Age, the Age of Harems, when the Bishonen constantly tried to date too many supernatually powerful women at once. (It's no surprise, really, that the whole thing blew up on them, leading to their overthrow.)

But now, she has vanished, and Creation is falling into Chaos as its enemies rise up, and its defenders, the Magical Girls, turn on each other. It is a time that cries out for cute and cuddly heroes.

* [http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/Exalted/ExaltedKawaiiMap3.jpg VERY HUGE Map of the Exalted: Kawaii World]
* [http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/Exalted/ExaltedKawaiiMap4.jpg Still Big Map of the Exalted: Kawaii World]
* [[/Culture|Culture, Society, and Anachronism in Exalted: Kawaii]]
* [[/TheScarletEmpire|The Scarlet Empire]]
** [[/MagicalGirlGangs|The Magical Girl Gangs of the Scarlet Empire]]
** [[/ScarletImperialSchools|Schools of the Scarlet Empire]]
** [[/TheKawaiiOrder|The Kawaii Order]]
** [[/KawaiiCalendar|The Imperial Kawaii Calendar]]
** [[/ImperialLegions|The Legions of the Scarlet Empire]]
** [[/TheMountainPeople|The Mountain People]]
** [[/ScarletGeography|Geography of the Scarlet Empire]]
* [[/TheKawaiiThreshold|The Threshold]]
** [[/EvilBusiness|Obligatory Evil Business Organizations]]
** The East
*** [[/AriesRepublic|The Republic of Aries]]
*** [[/Brambles|Brambles and The Mask of Vintners]]
*** [[/Casper|Casper The Friendly Ghost City]]
*** [[/CorgoLeague|Corgo League]]
*** [[/CretaceousPark|The Ruins of Cretaceous Park]]
*** [[/CutNShoot|Cut'n'Shoot, Capital of the 7th and a Half Legion]]
*** [[/DevNull|Dev'Null, the Empty City]]
*** [[/GreatSpoons|Great Spoons, City of the Cutlery Goddesses]]
*** [[/Halnia|Halnia, Kingdom of Talking Animals]]
*** [[/TheHorde|The Horde]]
*** [[/ICIS|the Ineffective Commonwealth of Independent States]]
*** [[/TheInvisibleDungeon|The Invisible Dungeon]]
*** [[/KantoPrefecture|The Kanto Prefecture and Port Edo]]
*** [[/MinasLankWaterHawk|Minas LankWaterHawk, Archetypical Fantasy City]]
*** [[/TheOldEast|The Old East]]
*** [[/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians|The 101 Dalmatians]]
**** [[/Hawkmountain|Hawkmountain]]
*** [[/Rocki|Rocki the Flying Catgirl, Sorceress-Queen of the Flying City of Spearmint]]
*** [[/Telmarine|Telmarine, Kingdom of Tree-Pirates]]
*** [[/TenNinjaTribes|The Ten Ninja Tribes]]
*** [[/WalkerUndeadRanger|Walker, Undead Ranger]]
*** [[/TheWellofUbu|The Well of Ubu and The Dowager of Absurdist Literature For Children]]
** The North
*** [[/AbominableSnowMen|The Abominable Snow-Men]]
*** [[/AngleLand|Heptarchy of Angle-Land]]
*** [[/BeerDrinkerTribes|Beer Drinker Tribes]]
*** [[/TheBishopOnTheLanding|The Bishop on the Landing]]
*** [[/TheBooOfTheNorth|The Boo of the North]]
*** [[/Cherricola|Cherricola, City of Drinks]]
*** [[/Doom City|Doom City, Land of Harem Age Wonders and Horrors]]
*** [[/HindenburgLeague|Hindenburg League]]
*** [[/IsleoftheIceFishers|Isle of the Ice Fishers]]
*** [[/Mauvewall|Mauvewall, City Under Siege]]
*** [[/PenguinLand|Penguin Land]]
*** [[/SanAndrea|Shrine of San Andrea, Kawaii Theocracy]]
*** [[/ShadowCoast|The Shadow Coast, City-States Against the Deaders]]
*** [[/Vinland|Vinland, Land of Northern Raiders]]
*** [[/TheWhaleChasers|The Whale Chasers]]
** The South
*** [[/Artai|Artai, Ambitious Mountain Land]]
*** [[/Bedhead|Bedhead, Grooms of Bessie]]
*** [[/BlueSilkRaiders|The Blue Silk Raiders]]
*** [[/BrockCity|Brock City, Home of the Master of the Pocket Monsters]]
*** [[/Cubist|Cubist, The City Picasso Built and the Caloriemen]]
*** [[/LapDancer|Lapdancer, City of Whores and Farmers]]
*** [[/MamaCass|Ma-Ma-Cass, Conquering Catgirl and Ex-Idol Singer]]
*** [[/Nintend|Nin-Tend, Land of a Thousand Mushrooms]]
*** [[/TepesEclavdra|Tepes Eclavdra, the Pitchblack]]
*** [[/WagnerianCityStates|The Wagnerian City States]]
*** [[/Windbloom|Windbloom, Most Destroyed of Nations]]
** The West
*** [[/CastleSkullstone|Castle Skullstone and the Skullstone Islands]]
*** [[/EternalIslands|The Eternal Islands]]
*** [[/GreatNorthernReef|Great Northern Reef and the Coral Islands]]
*** [[/Hobbes|Calvina Hobbes, Ancient Cat-Girl Admiral of the Deep]]
*** [[/JilliansIsland|Jillian's Island]]
*** [[/LuffyFamily|The Luffy Family of Pirates and the Grand Line]]
*** [[/PigHeadIsland|Pig Head Island]]
*** [[/PinappleRepublic|The Pineapple Republic]]
*** [[/SugarIslands|The Sugar Islands]]
*** [[/UnitedRepublicOfFruit|United Republic of Fruit]]
* [[/Oniboshi|Oniboshi]]
** [[/LostContinent|The Lost Continent]]
* Other Dimensions
** [[/NeoYuShan|Celestial City--Neo-Yu-Shan]]
*** [[/CelestialBureaucracy|Celestial Bureaucracy]]
*** [[/CultoftheIlluminati|Cult of the Illuminati]]
** [[/RalphMalfeas|Ralph'Malfeas, The You'll See, and the Devious Demonesses]]
*** [[/LittleBigEvilBook| The Little Big Book of Evil]]
* Artifacts and other Objects of Note
** [[/VelkaSystem|Principles of Artifact Creation and the Velka System]]
** [[/LiberabDecoraMagica|Liber ab Decora Magica (The Book of Cute Magic)]]
* Miscellanea
** [[/KuklaFranOllie|Kukla, Fran, and Ollie]]
** [[/MasterNPCList|Master List of NPCs of Note]]
** [[/LordsofCuteAngst|The Lords of Cute Angst]]

== Charms ==

All the Exalted are elevated above the ickiness of the world on a fundamental level. Mundane problems such as infection, bleeding and disease are things they pay little heed to. But beyond that the thing which most elevates the Exalted above others is their Charms.

By channeling their Moe and declaring to the universe at large that they are simply too cute and cool to deal with a problem a problem the universe bows to their request and simply makes it go away. This process is refered to as Being Too Cute And Charming To Be Bothered, the act of convincing the universe that you are simply too special to be concerned with problems right now. Each Exalted has a different manner of going about this Charming process and some of these methods are more effective in certain situations than others. By developing a number of techniques in this regard, the Exalted can be so cute that they are unassialable and their every wish is granted.

The vast number of "Ways in Which I Am So Cute and Charming To Be Bothered" eventually got short-handed to "Charms" over the years. Mainly because nobody has to time to use the full title since their so busy developing new ones. Each sub-set of the Exalted has access to radically different Charms. The innate Moe of their nature allows them to develop only certain Charms in line with their personality and Fetishes. However their are certain rules which are universal to all of the Kawaii Exalted.

=== Infant Charms ===

These are the simplest and most straightforward of the Kawaii Charms. These Charms usually produce flashy effects that linger for no longer than an instant. The name for these Charms come from the fact that, for the time of their use, the user often appears as a smaller, child-like version of themselves.

=== Speech Charms ===

These Charms produce long term effects for the Exalt who uses them. They can be fairly powerful, but often requires the commitment of Moe to empower them. The only real limitation on these Charms is that they must be activated while the Exalted is giving a speech and posing. It is impossible to conceal this display and in fact attempting to do so negates the Moe invested. Only by declaring to the entire universe and all who are willing to see that you are, indeed, going to punish evil in the name of light, love and puffed pastries will you recieve the blessing to do just that.

Thankfully you may use one speech and pose sequence to activate multiple Speech Charms. Of course, this often leads to the fact that, with elder Exalted, the pre-battle speechmaking can take hours! Still there is nothing to do but bear with it. Interupting another Exalted's speech is considered terribly impolite! Of course, there is nothing wrong with making certain your opponent can not start their speechmaking. Duct tape is one of the most valuable commodities in the Scarlet Empire.

=== Subtle/Mental Charms ===

Sometimes it is best to use Charms that others aren't aware of. The category of Subtle Mental Charms was developed to fill this void. It allows a Kawaii Exalted to enforce their Moe without neccesarily producing an extravagant display. Of course, these Charms are often of limited use compared to the more powerful Charms that everyone can see. Subtle/Mental Charms do produce the backbone of the Moe wielded by the Exalted, since using them is often easier then making a big fuss over everything.

Unless you want to make a big fuss. Otherwise these are no fun at all.

=== Re-Fun Charms ===

Even the most super Moe Exalted can be caught unawares and forced into a situation that is not fun at all. To prevent this, the concept of Re-Fun Charms was developed. These Charms allow the Exalt to respond to unfun things after they have happened, spontaneously using Moe to make it fun again (and, incidentally, making them not dead in many cases). Re-Fun Charms are the primary reason why mortals can not challenge the Kawaii Exalted.

=== Marital Arts ===

Developed by the Helping Goddesses over the millennia, these Charms are universal among the Exalted. All Exalted may learn the Marital Arts, provided they can find a willing teacher (considering the training involved, this is often easier then it sounds, especially if you have a high Appearance score). Marital Arts are powerful Charms that allow a Kawaii Exalted to transcend their limitations. There most common limitation is that they can not be used with armor (or much in the way of clothing at all, really) and that they don't interact with most weapons well (except a few, such as the whip, the chain, the riding crop and so on).

=== Sorcery ===

In the beginning the Kawaii Exalted triumphed over the dark forces of Not Fun, looking them away in a universe of boring, uncute ickiness and phallic tentacles. In return for not killing them, the Exalted extorted certain demands from the Not Fun At All things, primary among them was the ability to call upon their powers in time of need. This process called "Summoning the Sore Losers To Me" was eventually short-handed to Sorcery.

All Exalts can learn Sorcery to one degree or another. But the deals struck with the Not Fun At All Things only allows certain Exalts access to certain groups of Not Fun At All Things, social group based on how popular and powerful the Not Fun is, known as Cliques. The Magical Girls, as the least of the Kawaii Exalted only had access to the relatively broad and encompasing (and thus weak) First Clique. The Catgirls and Helping Goddesses could call upon the more exclusive and awesome Second Clique and only the fabullous Bishonens could catch the attention of the super-exclusive and really awsomely powerful Third Clique.

== The Splats ==

=== Bishonens ===
 Solar Equivalents 

http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/ExaltedKawaiiTheBishonensFront.jpg

http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/ExaltedKawaiiTheBishonensBack.jpg

[[TheKawaiiEdition/Bishonen|Bishonen]]

=== Catgirls ===
 Lunar Equivalents 

http://i2.tinypic.com/orrn9w.jpg

[[TheKawaiiEdition/Catgirls|Catgirls]]

=== Helping God(desse)s ===
 Sidereal Equivalents 

[[TheKawaiiEdition/HelpingGoddesses|Helping Goddesses]]

=== Magical Girls ===
 Dragon-Blooded Equivalents 

http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/ExaltedKawaiiMagicalGirlsCoverFront.jpg

http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/ExaltedKawaiiMagicalGirlsCoverBack.jpg

[[TheKawaiiEdition/MagicalGirls|Magical Girls]]

=== Gothic Lolitas ===
 Abyssal Equivalents 

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1/greymane_lor/gothicloli4.jpg

[[TheKawaiiEdition/GothicLolitas|Gothic Lolitas]]

=== Robot Girls ===

 Alchemical Equivalents 

http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/ExaltedKawaiiRobotGirlsCover.jpg

[[TheKawaiiEdition/RobotGirls|Robot Girls]]

=== Alien Prince(sse)s ===
 Fair Folk Equivalents 

[[TheKawaiiEdition/AlienPrinceses|Alien Princesses]]

== Other Supplements ==

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[[TheKawaiiEdition/KawaiiCreaturesOfTheWyld|EKE: Creatures of the Wyld]]

== Game Fiction ==

[[/ExaltedKawaiiFiction|Exalted Kawaii Fiction]]

== Game Concept Conversion ==

=== Dream Combat ===

[[Wings]] system for Dream Combat [[/DreamCombat|can be found here.]]

=== Essence ===

Essence is called Moe.

Permanent Moe Side-effects:
* 1: None, you are a mortal or animal.
* 2: All Moe 2 beings belong to some sort of Splat, which serves as their first fetish.
* 3: Every time you gain a point of Permanent Moe above 2, you gain an additional fetish.

Fetishes are, in this context, some sort of role or behavior which adds to your cuteness. You may start saying saying your name at the end of every sentence you speak, you may begin wearing some cutesy costume all the time, you may take on roles like 'nurse', 'witch', 'teacher', etc.

For example, Magical Nurse Witch Kana-chan is a Magical Girl with the roles of 'nurse' and 'witch', who always addresses everyone as (name)-chan, as if they were all small kids. She also wears an odd outfit which blends witch and nurse clothing. She has Moe 6. (four fetishes + her Magical Girl status)

=== Limit Breaks and the Great Curse ===

Hmm, trying to think of how all this should work. It definitely should involve Limit Breaking people turning Super-Deformed, I know that much, but I haven't figured out how it SHOULD work. (Though Bishonens definitely become more Angsty as their Limit builds...)

=== Going Superdeformed ===

Sometimes, the Exalted: Kawaii universe goes into pure comedy mode. Everyone shrinks and becomes a chibi-version of themselves. The Storyteller may declare a scene to be done in 'superdeformed' mode at the start, or any time something really funny happens.

During a Super-deformed scene, all damage done to non-Extras counts only as Bashing damage and will never kill anyone, just knock them out. Stunt bonuses are doubled so long as the stunt is funny. Storytellers are encouraged to allow extremely wild stunts like grabbing someone's words as they come out of their mouth and hitting them with them.

Once a scene goes super-deformed, it stays that way until either something really serious happens or enough people get tired of full-blown whacky mode.

Players may turn super-deformed even in a serious scene for a single turn by spending 1 mote. This is often used to whack someone upside the head with one's giant daiklaive for saying something stupid, in order to avoid killing them. NPCs may do this as well.

== Mass Combat Rules ==

[[/KawaiiMassCombat|Mass combat rules have their own page.]]

== Art Credits ==

Original Exalted Chibi Art by Melissa Uran.

Concept of Exalted Kawaii Edition and EKE and EKE: Catgirls art by Thomas T @ RPG.net

EKE: Robot Girls and EKE: Magical Girls art and EKE: Bishonens by JohnBiles.

EKE: Gothic Lolitas art by [[Greymane]].

EKE: Creatures of the Wyld art by Leperunclean @ RPG.net.

I (John Biles) created my covers with the use of Generic Exalted Covers created by Melissa Uran. I have some of them stashed at
[[http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/Covers/]] if anyone wants to use them, since I've been told the links at her site don't work...

EKE World Map based on blank map from StephanLS@RPG.net's Exalted map site.

== Downloads ==

Veav was kind enough to create a PDF of the rules (last updated early August 2006): [[/Downloads|Download Page.]]

== Playtesting ==

[[/Playtesting|Playtesting Page.]]

===== Comments =====

[[/OldKawaiiEditionComments|Jump to the Old Age Home For Exalted: Kawaii Comments]]

Hey, I have an Idea for the Limit Break ... Same as normal Exalted. When you act against your main Virtue, your limit break goes up. Also all Bishonens have times when they fail to be awesome that makes it go up. Kensai go up when they fail to seem brave and cool in combat. Stalwarts go up every time someone recks a great speech or something. So on and so forth. When the Limit hits 10, they drop to 0, and enter "Baka Break!!" They then smash people up based on Caste... Kensai would be all... "Gotta prove I am bad ass!" Stalwarts would be "Must show how uber sexy I am!" and again so forth... What do people think? -- Xaoc

Moved more comments to the Archival page. 5/28/06 -- JohnBiles

Gothic Lolita Charms are finished! At long last! Sorry for the wait, I hope it was worth it! Please look forward to......whatever I do next! --[[Wings]]
: We could use a master list of the Lords of Cute Angst, and a thing on the Underworld. --JohnBiles
:: Sure, leave the Underworld to me. Or at the very least the Lords of Cute Angst, I'm already working on them. Just to confirm, we have five Lords so far, right? Mask of Vintners, the Dowager of Absurdist Literature for Children, Walker, Undead Ranger and my two originals, right? Anyway, I've finished my EKE "vacation", so I guess it's back to work now! --[[Wings]]
::: Also, the Bishop on the Landing, who I hadn't done a writeup of yet, but who is on the list of people/places by region up top on this page. And the Skeletal Lord, who rules the Skullstone Archipelago, who does have a brief writeup that I did today or maybe yesterday. --JohnBiles

Map of Exalted: Kawaii added. 5/31/06 -- JohnBiles

Well, there's definitely enough stuff for playtesting; I can't figure out where to link this in the main body of this page, so here's a link to the [[/Playtesting|Playtesting Page.]]-- JohnBiles

Hooray, I did something! [[/Downloads|Download Page.]]-- Veav

Added some notes on Culture and Society and Anachronism --JohnBiles

So I was looking though the Wyld book recently and I was reminded about how the Pearl Court is ruled by a judge. Given the recent series of Lawyer centric Nintendo games, I suggest that the Kawaii version of this be the Court of the Ever Correct Phoenix, where vast legal battles between those who fight for truth and justice and those who will use any trick, any lie to win occur on an hourly basis. I haven't played the games, so I dunno how it should go, but I thought someone might find the idea useful --BrilliantRain

So, I'm in a newly formed gaming group that decided, among other games, to run a game of Kawaii Edition. I love this, it reads like an adorably cute and evil parody of the Exalted setting. Anyway, the GM wanted to use Craft Categories similar to the Second Edition ones, but the elemental categories weren't Kawaii enough. So between the two of us and a third person, we came up with the following categories. Thoughts on them? --KajaRainbow
*Shiny - anything that gleams. Gems, metals, jewelry, glass, etc.
*Soft - soft stuff. Leather, paper, hairdressing, flower arranging, clothes, etc.
*Crunchy - harder, less shiny stuff. Stone, wood, pottery, bones, seashells, etc..
*Juicy - liquid or edible stuff. Cooking, potions, poisons, etc.
*Sketchy - work that's mostly design/visual. Drawing, painting, calligraphy, tattooes, manga (one of our Gothic Lolita PCs does manga though in a warped way).

That's a really good set of ideas! -- JohnBiles

KajaRainbow: *

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−	Hey, I have an Idea for the Limit Break ... Same as normal Exalted. When you act against your main Virtue, your limit break goes up. Also all Bishonens have times when they fail to be awesome that makes it go up. Kensai go up when they fail to seem brave and cool in combat. Stalwarts go up every time someone recks a great speech or something. So on and so forth. When the Limit hits 10, they drop to 0, and enter "Baka Break!!" They then smash people up based on Caste... Kensai would be all... "Gotta prove I am bad ass!" Stalwarts would be "Must show how uber sexy I am!" and again so forth... What do people think? -- Xaoc
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−	~~Gothic Lolita Charms are finished! At long last! Sorry for the wait, I hope it was worth it! Please look forward to......whatever I do next! --[[Wings]]~~
−	~~: We could use a master list of the Lords of Cute Angst, and a thing on the Underworld. --[[JohnBiles]]~~
−	:: Sure, leave the Underworld to me. Or at the very least the Lords of Cute Angst, I'm already working on them. Just to confirm, we have five Lords so far, right? Mask of Vintners, the Dowager of Absurdist Literature for Children, Walker, Undead Ranger and my two originals, right? Anyway, I've finished my EKE "vacation", so I guess it's back to work now! --[[Wings]]
−	::: Also, the Bishop on the Landing, who I hadn't done a writeup of yet, but who is on the list of people/places by region up top on this page. And the Skeletal Lord, who rules the Skullstone Archipelago, who does have a brief writeup that I did today or maybe yesterday. --[[JohnBiles]]
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−	Well, there's definitely enough stuff for playtesting; I can't figure out where to link this in the main body of this page, so here's a link to the [[TheKawaiiEdition/Playtesting\|Playtesting Page.]]-- [[JohnBiles]]
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−	~~Hooray, I did something! [[TheKawaiiEdition/Downloads\|Download Page.]]-- Veav~~
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−	~~Added some notes on Culture and Society and Anachronism --[[JohnBiles]]~~
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−	So I was looking though the Wyld book recently and I was reminded about how the Pearl Court is ruled by a judge. Given the recent series of Lawyer centric Nintendo games, I suggest that the Kawaii version of this be the Court of the Ever Correct Phoenix, where vast legal battles between those who fight for truth and justice and those who will use any trick, any lie to win occur on an hourly basis. I haven't played the games, so I dunno how it should go, but I thought someone might find the idea useful --[[BrilliantRain]]
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−	So, I'm in a newly formed gaming group that decided, among other games, to run a game of Kawaii Edition. I love this, it reads like an adorably cute and evil parody of the Exalted setting. Anyway, the GM wanted to use Craft Categories similar to the Second Edition ones, but the elemental categories weren't Kawaii enough. So between the two of us and a third person, we came up with the following categories. Thoughts on them? --[[KajaRainbow]]
−	*Shiny - anything that gleams. Gems, metals, jewelry, glass, etc.
−	*Soft - soft stuff. Leather, paper, hairdressing, flower arranging, clothes, etc.
−	*Crunchy - harder, less shiny stuff. Stone, wood, pottery, bones, seashells, etc..
−	*Juicy - liquid or edible stuff. Cooking, potions, poisons, etc.
−	*Sketchy - work that's mostly design/visual. Drawing, painting, calligraphy, tattooes, manga (one of our Gothic Lolita PCs does manga though in a warped way).
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−	~~That's a really good set of ideas! -- [[JohnBiles]]~~

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 I (John Biles) created my covers with the use of Generic Exalted Covers created by Melissa Uran.  I have some of them stashed at
-[[http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/Covers/]] if anyone wants to use them, since I've been told the links at her site don't work...
+[[http:/]] if anyone wants to use them, since I've been told the links at her site don't work...
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 = Exalted:  Kawaii Edition =
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 == What is Exalted:  Kawaii? ==
 Exalted: Kawaii began as a gag cover done for a Photoshop thread on RPG.net.  It has since been developed into a humorous variant of the standard Exalted setting with a much heavier anime slant (especially shoujo and harem shows).  It should function both as something to laugh at and as a viable game setting for those of correctly twisted mentality.
 == The Setting ==
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 These are the simplest and most straightforward of the Kawaii Charms. These Charms usually produce flashy effects that linger for no longer than an instant. The name for these Charms come from the fact that, for the time of their use, the user often appears as a smaller, child-like version of themselves.
 === Speech Charms ===
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 Thankfully you may use one speech and pose sequence to activate multiple Speech Charms. Of course, this often leads to the fact that, with elder Exalted, the pre-battle speech-making can take hours! Still there is nothing to do but bear with it. Interrupting another Exalted's speech is considered terribly impolite! Of course, there is nothing wrong with making certain your opponent can not start their speech-making. Duct tape is one of the most valuable commodities in the Scarlet Empire.
 === Subtle/Mental Charms ===
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 Unless you want to make a big fuss. Otherwise these are no fun at all.
 === Re-Fun Charms ===
 Even the most super Moe Exalted can be caught unawares and forced into a situation that is not fun at all. To prevent this, the concept of Re-Fun Charms was developed. These Charms allow the Exalt to respond to unfunny things after they have happened, spontaneously using Moe to make it fun again (and, incidentally, making them not dead in many cases). Re-Fun Charms are the primary reason why mortals can not challenge the Kawaii Exalted.
 === Marital Arts ===
 Developed by the Helping Goddesses over the millennia, these Charms are universal among the Exalted. All Exalted may learn the Marital Arts, provided they can find a willing teacher (considering the training involved, this is often easier then it sounds, especially if you have a high Appearance score). Marital Arts are powerful Charms that allow a Kawaii Exalted to transcend their limitations. There most common limitation is that they can not be used with armor (or much in the way of clothing at all, really) and that they don't interact with most weapons well (except a few, such as the whip, the chain, the riding crop and so on).
 === Sorcery ===
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 [[TheKawaiiEdition/KawaiiCreaturesOfTheWyld|EKE:  Creatures of the Wyld]]
 == Game Fiction ==
 [[TheKawaiiEdition/ExaltedKawaiiFiction|Exalted Kawaii Fiction]]
 == Game Concept Conversion ==
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 [[Wings]] system for Dream Combat [[TheKawaiiEdition/DreamCombat|can be found here.]]
 === Essence ===
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 For example, Magical Nurse Witch Kana-chan is a Magical Girl with the roles of 'nurse' and 'witch', who always addresses everyone as (name)-chan, as if they were all small kids.  She also wears an odd outfit which blends witch and nurse clothing.  She has Moe 6.  (four fetishes + her Magical Girl status)
 === Limit Breaks and the Great Curse ===
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 Players may turn super-deformed even in a serious scene for a single turn by spending 1 mote.  This is often used to whack someone upside the head with one's giant daiklaive for saying something stupid, in order to avoid killing them.  NPCs may do this as well.
 == Mass Combat Rules ==
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 EKE World Map based on blank map from [[StephanLS]]@RPG.net's Exalted map site.
 ==  Downloads ==
 Veav was kind enough to create a PDF of the rules (last updated early August 2006):  [[TheKawaiiEdition/Downloads|Download Page.]]
 == Playtesting ==

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 == The Setting ==
-For a thousand years, Neo-Empress Scarlet stood astride the tide of history, directing Creation from the Scarlet Throne through her mastery of the Scarlet Crystal which gave her command over Area 51 (which was, amazingly enough, not actually Scarlet, but more of an off-mauve), the ancient defense system created by the now long-fallen Bishonen and their allies in the First Age, the Age of Harems, when the Bishonen constantly tried to date too many supernatually powerful women at once.  (It's no surprise, really, that the whole thing blew up on them, leading to their overthrow.)
+For a thousand years, Neo-Empress Scarlet stood astride the tide of history, directing Creation from the Scarlet Throne through her mastery of the Scarlet Crystal which gave her command over Area 51 (which was, amazingly enough, not actually Scarlet, but more of an off-mauve), the ancient defense system created by the now long-fallen Bishonen and their allies in the First Age, the Age of Harems, when the Bishonen constantly tried to date too many supernaturally powerful women at once.  (It's no surprise, really, that the whole thing blew up on them, leading to their overthrow.)
 But now, she has vanished, and Creation is falling into Chaos as its enemies rise up, and its defenders, the Magical Girls, turn on each other.  It is a time that cries out for cute and cuddly heroes.
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 All the Exalted are elevated above the ickiness of the world on a fundamental level. Mundane problems such as infection, bleeding and disease are things they pay little heed to. But beyond that the thing which most elevates the Exalted above others is their Charms.
-By channeling their Moe and declaring to the universe at large that they are simply too cute and cool to deal with a problem a problem the universe bows to their request and simply makes it go away. This process is refered to as Being Too Cute And Charming To Be Bothered, the act of convincing the universe that you are simply too special to be concerned with problems right now. Each Exalted has a different manner of going about this Charming process and some of these methods are more effective in certain situations than others. By developing a number of techniques in this regard, the Exalted can be so cute that they are unassialable and their every wish is granted.
+By channeling their Moe and declaring to the universe at large that they are simply too cute and cool to deal with a problem a problem the universe bows to their request and simply makes it go away. This process is referred to as Being Too Cute And Charming To Be Bothered, the act of convincing the universe that you are simply too special to be concerned with problems right now. Each Exalted has a different manner of going about this Charming process and some of these methods are more effective in certain situations than others. By developing a number of techniques in this regard, the Exalted can be so cute that they are unassailable and their every wish is granted.
 The vast number of "Ways in Which I Am So Cute and Charming To Be Bothered" eventually got short-handed to "Charms" over the years. Mainly because nobody has to time to use the full title since their so busy developing new ones. Each sub-set of the Exalted has access to radically different Charms. The innate Moe of their nature allows them to develop only certain Charms in line with their personality and Fetishes. However their are certain rules which are universal to all of the Kawaii Exalted.
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 === Speech Charms ===
-These Charms produce long term effects for the Exalt who uses them. They can be fairly powerful, but often requires the commitment of Moe to empower them. The only real limitation on these Charms is that they must be activated while the Exalted is giving a speech and posing. It is impossible to conceal this display and in fact attempting to do so negates the Moe invested. Only by declaring to the entire universe and all who are willing to see that you are, indeed, going to punish evil in the name of light, love and puffed pastries will you recieve the blessing to do just that.
+Thankfully you may use one speech and pose sequence to activate multiple Speech Charms. Of course, this often leads to the fact that, with elder Exalted, the pre-battle speech-making can take hours! Still there is nothing to do but bear with it. Interrupting another Exalted's speech is considered terribly impolite! Of course, there is nothing wrong with making certain your opponent can not start their speech-making. Duct tape is one of the most valuable commodities in the Scarlet Empire.
 === Subtle/Mental Charms ===
-Sometimes it is best to use Charms that others aren't aware of. The category of Subtle Mental Charms was developed to fill this void. It allows a Kawaii Exalted to enforce their Moe without neccesarily producing an extravagant display. Of course, these Charms are often of limited use compared to the more powerful Charms that everyone can see. Subtle/Mental Charms do produce the backbone of the Moe wielded by the Exalted, since using them is often easier then making a big fuss over everything.
+Sometimes it is best to use Charms that others aren't aware of. The category of Subtle Mental Charms was developed to fill this void. It allows a Kawaii Exalted to enforce their Moe without necessarily producing an extravagant display. Of course, these Charms are often of limited use compared to the more powerful Charms that everyone can see. Subtle/Mental Charms do produce the backbone of the Moe wielded by the Exalted, since using them is often easier then making a big fuss over everything.
 Unless you want to make a big fuss. Otherwise these are no fun at all.
 === Re-Fun Charms ===
-Even the most super Moe Exalted can be caught unawares and forced into a situation that is not fun at all. To prevent this, the concept of Re-Fun Charms was developed. These Charms allow the Exalt to respond to unfun things after they have happened, spontaneously using Moe to make it fun again (and, incidentally, making them not dead in many cases). Re-Fun Charms are the primary reason why mortals can not challenge the Kawaii Exalted.
+Even the most super Moe Exalted can be caught unawares and forced into a situation that is not fun at all. To prevent this, the concept of Re-Fun Charms was developed. These Charms allow the Exalt to respond to unfunny things after they have happened, spontaneously using Moe to make it fun again (and, incidentally, making them not dead in many cases). Re-Fun Charms are the primary reason why mortals can not challenge the Kawaii Exalted.
 === Marital Arts ===
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 In the beginning the Kawaii Exalted triumphed over the dark forces of Not Fun, looking them away in a universe of boring, uncute ickiness and phallic tentacles. In return for not killing them, the Exalted extorted certain demands from the Not Fun At All things, primary among them was the ability to call upon their powers in time of need. This process called "Summoning the Sore Losers To Me" was eventually short-handed to Sorcery.
-All Exalts can learn Sorcery to one degree or another. But the deals struck with the Not Fun At All Things only allows certain Exalts access to certain groups of Not Fun At All Things, social group based on how popular and powerful the Not Fun is, known as Cliques. The Magical Girls, as the least of the Kawaii Exalted only had access to the relatively broad and encompasing (and thus weak) First Clique. The Catgirls and Helping Goddesses could call upon the more exclusive and awesome Second Clique and only the fabullous Bishonens could catch the attention of the super-exclusive and really awsomely powerful Third Clique.
+All Exalts can learn Sorcery to one degree or another. But the deals struck with the Not Fun At All Things only allows certain Exalts access to certain groups of Not Fun At All Things, social group based on how popular and powerful the Not Fun is, known as Cliques. The Magical Girls, as the least of the Kawaii Exalted only had access to the relatively broad and encompassing (and thus weak) First Clique. The Catgirls and Helping Goddesses could call upon the more exclusive and awesome Second Clique and only the fabulous Bishonens could catch the attention of the super-exclusive and really awesomely powerful Third Clique.
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 [[TheKawaiiEdition/Bishonen|Bishonen]]
 === Catgirls ===
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 [[TheKawaiiEdition/HelpingGoddesses|Helping Goddesses]]
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 [[TheKawaiiEdition/MagicalGirls|Magical Girls]]
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 [[Wings]] system for Dream Combat [[TheKawaiiEdition/DreamCombat|can be found here.]]
 === Essence ===
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 == Art Credits ==
 Original Exalted Chibi Art by Melissa Uran.

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 Thankfully you may use one speech and pose sequence to activate multiple Speech Charms. Of course, this often leads to the fact that, with elder Exalted, the pre-battle speechmaking can take hours! Still there is nothing to do but bear with it. Interupting another Exalted's speech is considered terribly impolite! Of course, there is nothing wrong with making certain your opponent can not start their speechmaking. Duct tape is one of the most valuable commodities in the Scarlet Empire.
-=== Subtle/Mental Charms ===
+=== [[SubtleTheKawaiiEdition/Mental]] Charms ===
-Sometimes it is best to use Charms that others aren't aware of. The category of Subtle Mental Charms was developed to fill this void. It allows a Kawaii Exalted to enforce their Moe without neccesarily producing an extravagant display. Of course, these Charms are often of limited use compared to the more powerful Charms that everyone can see. Subtle/Mental Charms do produce the backbone of the Moe wielded by the Exalted, since using them is often easier then making a big fuss over everything.
+Sometimes it is best to use Charms that others aren't aware of. The category of Subtle Mental Charms was developed to fill this void. It allows a Kawaii Exalted to enforce their Moe without neccesarily producing an extravagant display. Of course, these Charms are often of limited use compared to the more powerful Charms that everyone can see. [[SubtleTheKawaiiEdition/Mental]] Charms do produce the backbone of the Moe wielded by the Exalted, since using them is often easier then making a big fuss over everything.
 Unless you want to make a big fuss. Otherwise these are no fun at all.
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 Concept of Exalted Kawaii Edition and EKE and EKE:  Catgirls art by Thomas T @ RPG.net
-EKE:  Robot Girls and EKE:  Magical Girls art and EKE:  Bishonens by JohnBiles.
+EKE:  Robot Girls and EKE:  Magical Girls art and EKE:  Bishonens by [[JohnBiles]].
 EKE:  Gothic Lolitas art by [[Greymane]].
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 [[http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/Covers/]] if anyone wants to use them, since I've been told the links at her site don't work...
-EKE World Map based on blank map from StephanLS@RPG.net's Exalted map site.
+EKE World Map based on blank map from [[StephanLS]]@RPG.net's Exalted map site.
 ==  Downloads ==
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 Hey, I have an Idea for the Limit Break ... Same as normal Exalted. When you act against your main Virtue, your limit break goes up. Also all Bishonens have times when they fail to be awesome that makes it go up. Kensai go up when they fail to seem brave and cool in combat. Stalwarts go up every time someone recks a great speech or something. So on and so forth. When the Limit hits 10, they drop to 0, and enter "Baka Break!!" They then smash people up based on Caste... Kensai would be all... "Gotta prove I am bad ass!" Stalwarts would be "Must show how uber sexy I am!" and again so forth... What do people think? -- Xaoc
-Moved more comments to the Archival page.  5/28/06 -- JohnBiles
+Moved more comments to the Archival page.  5/28/06 -- [[JohnBiles]]
 Gothic Lolita Charms are finished! At long last! Sorry for the wait, I hope it was worth it! Please look forward to......whatever I do next! --[[Wings]]
-:  We could use a master list of the Lords of Cute Angst, and a thing on the Underworld.  --JohnBiles
+:  We could use a master list of the Lords of Cute Angst, and a thing on the Underworld.  --[[JohnBiles]]
 :: Sure, leave the Underworld to me. Or at the very least the Lords of Cute Angst, I'm already working on them. Just to confirm, we have five Lords so far, right? Mask of Vintners, the Dowager of Absurdist Literature for Children, Walker, Undead Ranger and my two originals, right? Anyway, I've finished my EKE "vacation", so I guess it's back to work now! --[[Wings]]
-::: Also, the Bishop on the Landing, who I hadn't done a writeup of yet, but who is on the list of people/places by region up top on this page.  And the Skeletal Lord, who rules the Skullstone Archipelago, who does have a brief writeup that I did today or maybe yesterday.  --JohnBiles
+::: Also, the Bishop on the Landing, who I hadn't done a writeup of yet, but who is on the list of people/places by region up top on this page.  And the Skeletal Lord, who rules the Skullstone Archipelago, who does have a brief writeup that I did today or maybe yesterday.  --[[JohnBiles]]
-Map of Exalted: Kawaii added.  5/31/06 -- JohnBiles
+Map of Exalted: Kawaii added.  5/31/06 -- [[JohnBiles]]
-Well, there's definitely enough stuff for playtesting; I can't figure out where to link this in the main body of this page, so here's a link to the [[/Playtesting|Playtesting Page.]]-- JohnBiles
+Well, there's definitely enough stuff for playtesting; I can't figure out where to link this in the main body of this page, so here's a link to the [[/Playtesting|Playtesting Page.]]-- [[JohnBiles]]
 Hooray, I did something!  [[/Downloads|Download Page.]]-- Veav
-Added some notes on Culture and Society and Anachronism --JohnBiles
+Added some notes on Culture and Society and Anachronism --[[JohnBiles]]
-So I was looking though the Wyld book recently and I was reminded about how the Pearl Court is ruled by a judge.  Given the recent series of Lawyer centric Nintendo games, I suggest that the Kawaii version of this be the Court of the Ever Correct Phoenix, where vast legal battles between those who fight for truth and justice and those who will use any trick, any lie to win occur on an hourly basis.  I haven't played the games, so I dunno how it should go, but I thought someone might find the idea useful  --BrilliantRain
+So I was looking though the Wyld book recently and I was reminded about how the Pearl Court is ruled by a judge.  Given the recent series of Lawyer centric Nintendo games, I suggest that the Kawaii version of this be the Court of the Ever Correct Phoenix, where vast legal battles between those who fight for truth and justice and those who will use any trick, any lie to win occur on an hourly basis.  I haven't played the games, so I dunno how it should go, but I thought someone might find the idea useful  --[[BrilliantRain]]
-So, I'm in a newly formed gaming group that decided, among other games, to run a game of Kawaii Edition. I love this, it reads like an adorably cute and evil parody of the Exalted setting. Anyway, the GM wanted to use Craft Categories similar to the Second Edition ones, but the elemental categories weren't Kawaii enough. So between the two of us and a third person, we came up with the following categories. Thoughts on them? --KajaRainbow
+So, I'm in a newly formed gaming group that decided, among other games, to run a game of Kawaii Edition. I love this, it reads like an adorably cute and evil parody of the Exalted setting. Anyway, the GM wanted to use Craft Categories similar to the Second Edition ones, but the elemental categories weren't Kawaii enough. So between the two of us and a third person, we came up with the following categories. Thoughts on them? --[[KajaRainbow]]
 *Shiny - anything that gleams. Gems, metals, jewelry, glass, etc.
 *Soft - soft stuff. Leather, paper, hairdressing, flower arranging, clothes, etc.
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 *Juicy - liquid or edible stuff. Cooking, potions, poisons, etc.
 *Sketchy - work that's mostly design/visual. Drawing, painting, calligraphy, tattooes, manga (one of our Gothic Lolita PCs does manga though in a warped way).

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	So I was looking though the Wyld book recently and I was reminded about how the Pearl Court is ruled by a judge. Given the recent series of Lawyer centric Nintendo games, I suggest that the Kawaii version of this be the Court of the Ever Correct Phoenix, where vast legal battles between those who fight for truth and justice and those who will use any trick, any lie to win occur on an hourly basis. I haven't played the games, so I dunno how it should go, but I thought someone might find the idea useful --BrilliantRain		So I was looking though the Wyld book recently and I was reminded about how the Pearl Court is ruled by a judge. Given the recent series of Lawyer centric Nintendo games, I suggest that the Kawaii version of this be the Court of the Ever Correct Phoenix, where vast legal battles between those who fight for truth and justice and those who will use any trick, any lie to win occur on an hourly basis. I haven't played the games, so I dunno how it should go, but I thought someone might find the idea useful --BrilliantRain
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		+	So, I'm in a newly formed gaming group that decided, among other games, to run a game of Kawaii Edition. I love this, it reads like an adorably cute and evil parody of the Exalted setting. Anyway, the GM wanted to use Craft Categories similar to the Second Edition ones, but the elemental categories weren't Kawaii enough. So between the two of us and a third person, we came up with the following categories. Thoughts on them? --KajaRainbow
		+	*Shiny - anything that gleams. Gems, metals, jewelry, glass, etc.
		+	*Soft - soft stuff. Leather, paper, hairdressing, flower arranging, clothes, etc.
		+	*Crunchy - harder, less shiny stuff. Stone, wood, pottery, bones, seashells, etc..
		+	*Juicy - liquid or edible stuff. Cooking, potions, poisons, etc.
		+	*Sketchy - work that's mostly design/visual. Drawing, painting, calligraphy, tattooes, manga (one of our Gothic Lolita PCs does manga though in a warped way).