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<p>Created page with &#039;From an IM conversation he posted on his [http://nephilpal.livejournal.com/80907.html#cutid1 blog]: Nephilpal: You don&#039;t want mortals to matter.&lt;br&gt; Nephilpal: Nor to have them …&#039;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>From an IM conversation he posted on his [http://nephilpal.livejournal.com/80907.html#cutid1 blog]:<br /> <br /> Nephilpal: You don't want mortals to matter.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nephilpal: Nor to have them addressed in any meaningful rules-supported way.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nephilpal: Whereas I proceed from the operational model and developer outlines that it is to be a Bronze-age post-apocalyptic world in which demigods roam and fight and make power plays&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nephilpal: And yet, Exaltation only sets you above them a little ways.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nephilpal: And it is precisely your proportion of awesomeness above them that degrades your humanity and ultimately leads to ruin and debauched tyranny.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nephilpal: I write Exalted as a game of humanity, where for all the invulnerability you may have, Lois Lane is not.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nephilpal: And you'll have to choose between stopping the demon incursion on the Blessed Isle and opposing the march of Juggernaut&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nephilpal: Wherever you aren't, people will die.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nephilpal: Or more importantly, people will die.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nephilpal: And when you march them into battle, your friends, your lovers, your followers: they're probably going to get sepsis and die.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nephilpal: And the beauty of it is, when it comes to those heroic mortals, they weren't any less cool than you. Just not as lucky.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nephilpal: They didn't Exalt. You did.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nephilpal: And their deeds can ride up, but never catch up.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nephilpal: And in the end, their end will be gruesome and horrible and unfair.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Nephilpal: In any case, those are my thoughts.&lt;br&gt;</div>

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