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Darloth: aspect book wood must have passable mechanics

2005-09-25T22:30:39Z

aspect book wood must have passable mechanics

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 strengths of the Exalt, henceforth referred to as the "Obvious
 Build". The most notorious Obvious Build is the Lunar soak/regen
-monster, but the [[SolarTheMyriadOfShades/CharmTheory/Abyssal]] stacked persistent build (Invincible
+monster, but the Solar/Abyssal stacked persistent build (Invincible
 Sword Princess), the DB dodge/armor/init build (Fire Aspect with lots
-of jade artifacts), and the Sidereal [[VBoSTheMyriadOfShades/CharmTheory/ItF]] build are also easily
+of jade artifacts), and the Sidereal [[VBoS/ItF]] build are also easily
 recognizable.
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 geared towards more and better attacks/defenses -- this works wonders
 against mortals and beasts (funnily enough, they also excel at
-turning aside other [[MeleeTheMyriadOfShades/CharmTheory/Dodge]] attacks). Other than having a bit of
+turning aside other Melee/Dodge attacks). Other than having a bit of
 a grab-any-trick-you-like feel that comes from taking on a theme,
 most non-Sidereal MAs (because they're weird and can't really be

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 Why is Impeding the Flow SO much better than Dipping Swallow Defense
 or Feline Guard Technique? A Sidereal is an outright better parrier
-than a Solar. ItF wouldn't be so bad if the next Charm weren't a
+than a Solar. [[ItF]] wouldn't be so bad if the next Charm weren't a
 perfect defense that coincidentally negates a big weakness in
 perfect defenses -- you have to be aware of the attack, meaning
@@ Line 659: / Line 659: @@
 strengths of the Exalt, henceforth referred to as the "Obvious
 Build". The most notorious Obvious Build is the Lunar soak/regen
-monster, but the Solar/Abyssal stacked persistent build (Invincible
+monster, but the [[SolarTheMyriadOfShades/CharmTheory/Abyssal]] stacked persistent build (Invincible
 Sword Princess), the DB dodge/armor/init build (Fire Aspect with lots
-of jade artifacts), and the Sidereal VBoS/ItF build are also easily
+of jade artifacts), and the Sidereal [[VBoSTheMyriadOfShades/CharmTheory/ItF]] build are also easily
 recognizable.
@@ Line 727: / Line 727: @@
 geared towards more and better attacks/defenses -- this works wonders
 against mortals and beasts (funnily enough, they also excel at
-turning aside other Melee/Dodge attacks). Other than having a bit of
+turning aside other [[MeleeTheMyriadOfShades/CharmTheory/Dodge]] attacks). Other than having a bit of
 a grab-any-trick-you-like feel that comes from taking on a theme,
 most non-Sidereal MAs (because they're weird and can't really be
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 bit of xp.
-The Sidereal MAs DO have weaknesses (well, CMoS and CPoC do.  The
+The Sidereal MAs DO have weaknesses (well, [[CMoS]] and [[CPoC]] do.  The
 Prismatic Arrangement of Creation is downright infuriating -- it
 makes fighting a Water Dragon Stylist look like fun), but not as
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 listed having much to fear from a Sidereal who uses the
 Cannabilistic Heritage Technique.  However, the extreme prevalence of
-MA 6, Essence 6 Charms in the CMoS Style that will basically win a
+MA 6, Essence 6 Charms in the [[CMoS]] Style that will basically win a
 fight in a single blow suggest that somewhere in the Essence 4-6
 range we start seeing a lot of soak effects in either Resistance or
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 I second that.  Reading over this not only gave me a better idea of how the Charms are supposed to work, it made me rethink how to play Solars and Dragon-Blooded. [[Nanaki]]
-I too immensely enjoyed reading this.  I hope you don't mind, I went in and fixed as many typos as I could.  I tried my best, where your wording was unclear, to clean up without changing meaning.  - DigitalSentience
+I too immensely enjoyed reading this.  I hope you don't mind, I went in and fixed as many typos as I could.  I tried my best, where your wording was unclear, to clean up without changing meaning.  - [[DigitalSentience]]
 I agree. Seriously, this should be linked at the top of the charm section, near the guidelines for new ones. I wonder if we can persuade the designers to rewrite the caste-books with this in mind... Glad I found this. I shall be referring back to it often. <br> -- [[Darloth]]
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 Very cool, something like this really belonged in the Player's Guide.
-About the Sidereal charm set:  I think the idea was to make Sidereals amazingly powerful in a few areas, but very weak in most.  I havn't played with it, so I'm not sure if it worked.  But it sort of makes sense. -MeiRen
+About the Sidereal charm set:  I think the idea was to make Sidereals amazingly powerful in a few areas, but very weak in most.  I havn't played with it, so I'm not sure if it worked.  But it sort of makes sense. -[[MeiRen]]
--MeiRen
+-[[MeiRen]]
 Something you might want to add in the sidereal section (which you start to touch on at the end): in addition to having smaller essence pools to start with, there can be (and usually are, in my experience) at lot more reasons why a sidereal would be unwilling to spend peripheral essence than other types of exalt, even during combat. Most sidereal's I've seen played tend to don resplendent destinies most of the time and dropping them (even in the middle of combat) to avoid gaining paradox from an anima banner tends to cause more problems for them than it solves. - [[Wordman]]
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 *bump*
-While certain aspects of this may or may not hold true in 2nd Edition or in individual games, this is a great resource for ideas on Charm design and a general guideline for things.  It's certainly a starting point. - MoonSword
+While certain aspects of this may or may not hold true in 2nd Edition or in individual games, this is a great resource for ideas on Charm design and a general guideline for things.  It's certainly a starting point. - [[MoonSword]]

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 Why is Impeding the Flow SO much better than Dipping Swallow Defense
 or Feline Guard Technique? A Sidereal is an outright better parrier
-than a Solar. ItF wouldn't be so bad if the next Charm weren't a
+than a Solar. [[ItF]] wouldn't be so bad if the next Charm weren't a
 perfect defense that coincidentally negates a big weakness in
 perfect defenses -- you have to be aware of the attack, meaning
@@ Line 659: / Line 659: @@
 strengths of the Exalt, henceforth referred to as the "Obvious
 Build". The most notorious Obvious Build is the Lunar soak/regen
-monster, but the Solar/Abyssal stacked persistent build (Invincible
+monster, but the Solar[[/Abyssal]] stacked persistent build (Invincible
 Sword Princess), the DB dodge/armor/init build (Fire Aspect with lots
-of jade artifacts), and the Sidereal VBoS/ItF build are also easily
+of jade artifacts), and the Sidereal [[VBoS/ItF]] build are also easily
 recognizable.
@@ Line 727: / Line 727: @@
 geared towards more and better attacks/defenses -- this works wonders
 against mortals and beasts (funnily enough, they also excel at
-turning aside other Melee/Dodge attacks). Other than having a bit of
+turning aside other Melee[[/Dodge]] attacks). Other than having a bit of
 a grab-any-trick-you-like feel that comes from taking on a theme,
 most non-Sidereal MAs (because they're weird and can't really be
@@ Line 792: / Line 792: @@
 bit of xp.
-The Sidereal MAs DO have weaknesses (well, CMoS and CPoC do.  The
+The Sidereal MAs DO have weaknesses (well, [[CMoS]] and [[CPoC]] do.  The
 Prismatic Arrangement of Creation is downright infuriating -- it
 makes fighting a Water Dragon Stylist look like fun), but not as
@@ Line 802: / Line 802: @@
 listed having much to fear from a Sidereal who uses the
 Cannabilistic Heritage Technique.  However, the extreme prevalence of
-MA 6, Essence 6 Charms in the CMoS Style that will basically win a
+MA 6, Essence 6 Charms in the [[CMoS]] Style that will basically win a
 fight in a single blow suggest that somewhere in the Essence 4-6
 range we start seeing a lot of soak effects in either Resistance or
@@ Line 814: / Line 814: @@
 I second that.  Reading over this not only gave me a better idea of how the Charms are supposed to work, it made me rethink how to play Solars and Dragon-Blooded. [[Nanaki]]
-I too immensely enjoyed reading this.  I hope you don't mind, I went in and fixed as many typos as I could.  I tried my best, where your wording was unclear, to clean up without changing meaning.  - DigitalSentience
+I too immensely enjoyed reading this.  I hope you don't mind, I went in and fixed as many typos as I could.  I tried my best, where your wording was unclear, to clean up without changing meaning.  - [[DigitalSentience]]
 I agree. Seriously, this should be linked at the top of the charm section, near the guidelines for new ones. I wonder if we can persuade the designers to rewrite the caste-books with this in mind... Glad I found this. I shall be referring back to it often. <br> -- [[Darloth]]
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 Very cool, something like this really belonged in the Player's Guide.
-About the Sidereal charm set:  I think the idea was to make Sidereals amazingly powerful in a few areas, but very weak in most.  I havn't played with it, so I'm not sure if it worked.  But it sort of makes sense. -MeiRen
+About the Sidereal charm set:  I think the idea was to make Sidereals amazingly powerful in a few areas, but very weak in most.  I havn't played with it, so I'm not sure if it worked.  But it sort of makes sense. -[[MeiRen]]
--MeiRen
+-[[MeiRen]]
 Something you might want to add in the sidereal section (which you start to touch on at the end): in addition to having smaller essence pools to start with, there can be (and usually are, in my experience) at lot more reasons why a sidereal would be unwilling to spend peripheral essence than other types of exalt, even during combat. Most sidereal's I've seen played tend to don resplendent destinies most of the time and dropping them (even in the middle of combat) to avoid gaining paradox from an anima banner tends to cause more problems for them than it solves. - [[Wordman]]
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 *bump*
-While certain aspects of this may or may not hold true in 2nd Edition or in individual games, this is a great resource for ideas on Charm design and a general guideline for things.  It's certainly a starting point. - MoonSword
+While certain aspects of this may or may not hold true in 2nd Edition or in individual games, this is a great resource for ideas on Charm design and a general guideline for things.  It's certainly a starting point. - [[MoonSword]]
 This is an insanely good reference. it's just really really cool and generally awesome. I feel really stupid. - [[Han'ya]]

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	Something you might want to add in the sidereal section (which you start to touch on at the end): in addition to having smaller essence pools to start with, there can be (and usually are, in my experience) at lot more reasons why a sidereal would be unwilling to spend peripheral essence than other types of exalt, even during combat. Most sidereal's I've seen played tend to don resplendent destinies most of the time and dropping them (even in the middle of combat) to avoid gaining paradox from an anima banner tends to cause more problems for them than it solves. - [[Wordman]]		Something you might want to add in the sidereal section (which you start to touch on at the end): in addition to having smaller essence pools to start with, there can be (and usually are, in my experience) at lot more reasons why a sidereal would be unwilling to spend peripheral essence than other types of exalt, even during combat. Most sidereal's I've seen played tend to don resplendent destinies most of the time and dropping them (even in the middle of combat) to avoid gaining paradox from an anima banner tends to cause more problems for them than it solves. - [[Wordman]]
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		+	bump
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		+	While certain aspects of this may or may not hold true in 2nd Edition or in individual games, this is a great resource for ideas on Charm design and a general guideline for things. It's certainly a starting point. - MoonSword

@@ Line 262: / Line 262: @@
 Why is Impeding the Flow SO much better than Dipping Swallow Defense
 or Feline Guard Technique? A Sidereal is an outright better parrier
-than a Solar. [[ItF]] wouldn't be so bad if the next Charm weren't a
+than a Solar. ItF wouldn't be so bad if the next Charm weren't a
 perfect defense that coincidentally negates a big weakness in
 perfect defenses -- you have to be aware of the attack, meaning
@@ Line 659: / Line 659: @@
 strengths of the Exalt, henceforth referred to as the "Obvious
 Build". The most notorious Obvious Build is the Lunar soak/regen
-monster, but the Solar[[/Abyssal]] stacked persistent build (Invincible
+monster, but the Solar/Abyssal stacked persistent build (Invincible
 Sword Princess), the DB dodge/armor/init build (Fire Aspect with lots
-of jade artifacts), and the Sidereal [[VBoS/ItF]] build are also easily
+of jade artifacts), and the Sidereal VBoS/ItF build are also easily
 recognizable.
@@ Line 727: / Line 727: @@
 geared towards more and better attacks/defenses -- this works wonders
 against mortals and beasts (funnily enough, they also excel at
-turning aside other Melee[[/Dodge]] attacks). Other than having a bit of
+turning aside other Melee/Dodge attacks). Other than having a bit of
 a grab-any-trick-you-like feel that comes from taking on a theme,
 most non-Sidereal MAs (because they're weird and can't really be
@@ Line 792: / Line 792: @@
 bit of xp.
-The Sidereal MAs DO have weaknesses (well, [[CMoS]] and [[CPoC]] do.  The
+The Sidereal MAs DO have weaknesses (well, CMoS and CPoC do.  The
 Prismatic Arrangement of Creation is downright infuriating -- it
 makes fighting a Water Dragon Stylist look like fun), but not as
@@ Line 802: / Line 802: @@
 listed having much to fear from a Sidereal who uses the
 Cannabilistic Heritage Technique.  However, the extreme prevalence of
-MA 6, Essence 6 Charms in the [[CMoS]] Style that will basically win a
+MA 6, Essence 6 Charms in the CMoS Style that will basically win a
 fight in a single blow suggest that somewhere in the Essence 4-6
 range we start seeing a lot of soak effects in either Resistance or
@@ Line 814: / Line 814: @@
 I second that.  Reading over this not only gave me a better idea of how the Charms are supposed to work, it made me rethink how to play Solars and Dragon-Blooded. [[Nanaki]]
-I too immensely enjoyed reading this.  I hope you don't mind, I went in and fixed as many typos as I could.  I tried my best, where your wording was unclear, to clean up without changing meaning.  - [[DigitalSentience]]
+I too immensely enjoyed reading this.  I hope you don't mind, I went in and fixed as many typos as I could.  I tried my best, where your wording was unclear, to clean up without changing meaning.  - DigitalSentience
 I agree. Seriously, this should be linked at the top of the charm section, near the guidelines for new ones. I wonder if we can persuade the designers to rewrite the caste-books with this in mind... Glad I found this. I shall be referring back to it often. <br> -- [[Darloth]]
@@ Line 830: / Line 830: @@
 Very cool, something like this really belonged in the Player's Guide.
-About the Sidereal charm set:  I think the idea was to make Sidereals amazingly powerful in a few areas, but very weak in most.  I havn't played with it, so I'm not sure if it worked.  But it sort of makes sense. -[[MeiRen]]
+About the Sidereal charm set:  I think the idea was to make Sidereals amazingly powerful in a few areas, but very weak in most.  I havn't played with it, so I'm not sure if it worked.  But it sort of makes sense. -MeiRen
--[[MeiRen]]
+-MeiRen
 Something you might want to add in the sidereal section (which you start to touch on at the end): in addition to having smaller essence pools to start with, there can be (and usually are, in my experience) at lot more reasons why a sidereal would be unwilling to spend peripheral essence than other types of exalt, even during combat. Most sidereal's I've seen played tend to don resplendent destinies most of the time and dropping them (even in the middle of combat) to avoid gaining paradox from an anima banner tends to cause more problems for them than it solves. - [[Wordman]]